arrondissement of Arles

Monument to Frederick Mistral

Place du Forum, Arles, France

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Monument to Frederick Mistral is located in Arles, France. It was erected in 1909 on the Forum Square in honor of the Provençal poet and lexicographer Frederick Mistral, Nobel laureate, who founded the Arlaten Ethnographic Museum in 1906 in the city to tell about the original culture of the historical region of France Provence.

On the high pedestal you can see a bronze sculpture of an elderly poet in a hat, with a cloak thrown over his left hand, and with a cane in his right hand. Frederic Mistral's gaze is in the distance.

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