Recovered he set off for Rome but firstly married Marianne Cochet, also a student at the École des Beaux-Arts.

During his working life, Leygue created many sculptures for schools and other educational establishments and many of these were commissioned under the so-called "1% scheme".

Under this scheme and to encourage interest in and support for artists, 1% of the total funds allocated for new buildings particularly schools was put aside to commission and pay sculptors to create works.

The École des Arts et Métiers in Paris ordered the huge work "Taureau révulsé" and two studies of a bull, both in bronze.

In 1969 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and created a fountain for the Balance district in Avignon and the work "L’Envol" for Dijon.

In 1971 he worked on a large fountain in Aquitaine and another called "Les Corolles du jour" in Paris' "La Defense" area.

[3] [4] Leygue died on 2 March 1992 and his main works were as follows:- In 1938, the architect Eugène Beaudouin, Prix de Rome winner, was commissioned to design the new French embassy building in Ottawa and Louis Leygue and Jean Prouvé were charged with creating the sculptural decoration involved.

Leygue's work included sculptures in the "Grand Salon", positioned around a 17th-century tapestry from Gobelins depicting Constantine's victory and a reproduction of the Vimy memorial.

It forms part of a fountain in the "La Défense" area in Courbevoie[12] This sculpture is located in Vendôme's Parc Ronsard.

[19] During the Normandy invasion, Caen was subjected to fierce fighting and aerial bombing and the ancient university was completely destroyed.

The architect Henry Bernard was commissioned in 1945 to design the new university buildings and he employed Leygue and the painter Yvonne Guégan to assist in this project, which ran from 1948 to 1970.

[22] Leygue and Georges Saupique worked on creating several replacements for statues on the front of the cathedral which had been badly damaged by German artillery fire in the 1914-1918 war.

[23] For this church Leygue worked on the altar with depictions of Christ's death and resurrection, and a copper tabernacle and in the crypt is his "Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Leygue worked on this monumental sculpture of two seated figures representing France and Italy, sat in front of a wall 88 metres in length.

Designed by the architect Jean-Daniel Evette, the memorial comprises an obelisk 11 metres high, in Euville stone.