LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (circa 1860–1893) — AFTER Louis - Lot 260

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LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (circa 1860–1893) — AFTER Louis - Lot 260
LETHU AND MAUGER MANUFACTORY (circa 1860–1893) — AFTER Louis-Simon BOIZOT (1743–1809) Pluto Abducting Proserpina WHITE BISCUIT GROUP Inscribed on the base LM mark on the underside H. 44 cm Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family Biography | Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885). He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armored frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and deputy for Morbihan. In 1870, he managed to get sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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