Raoul Verlet

Charles Raoul Verlet (7 September 1857, Angoulême - 1 December 1923, Cannes) was a French sculptor and art professor.

He initially sculpture in Bordeaux, from 1884 to 1886, then enrolled at the École des beaux-arts de Paris, where he studied with Jules Cavelier and Louis-Ernest Barrias for four years.

The jury that chose him was composed of many notable artists, including Alexandre Falguière, Antonin Mercié, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Emmanuel Frémiet and Jules Dalou.

As his reputation grew, he received commissions for statues and monuments in Paris, Rouen, Marseille, Cognac and Louviers.

Two of his best known are those honoring Marie François Sadi Carnot, in Angoulême, and Guy de Maupassant, at the Parc Monceau in Paris.