Gondard studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille but did not pursue further studies in Paris as was usual with provincial sculptors at that time, choosing instead to remain in the Bouches du Rhône region and practise there.
This memorial was erected in 1920 and covers the dead of the 1870, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 wars and the conflicts in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
On the west face of the memorial is Gondard's statue of a veiled woman who holds a broad sword and on the north and south faces are verses in the language of Provence by Victorin Lavison dedicated to those lost in the 1914-1918 war.
The right side arm of the chair carries the portrait of a woman based on the character Salammbõ, a Reyer opera based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert and on the left side arm there is a portrait of Sigurd.
Gondard's bust of this Provence poet and writer Émile Ripert can be seen in a public garden in La Ciotat.
The octagonal pyramid shaped memorial, made from stone from a local quarry, lists the dead both of Château-Ville-Vieille and the neighbouring villages of Arvieux, Aiguilles, Ristolas, Saint-Véran and Molines; the seven communes of the Aiguilles canton.
Central to the memorial is Gondard's sculpture of a standing Gallic warrior, naked and muscular, whose arms are crossed over the hilt of a large broadsword.
The 1928 composition in marble "Le Voix de la Mer", adorns a tomb in the Marseille Saint-Pierre cemetery.
In the Jardin Alexandre 1er de Yougoslavie in Toulon is a Gondard sculpture, dating to 1935, dedicated to the poet and academic [13] 11.
[15] After the end of the 1914-1918 war, a Franco-Italian committee was formed in Marseille to organise the erection of a monument dedicated to those Italian soldiers who had given their lives for France.