Achille Valois

Achille Valois studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jacques-Louis David and Antoine-Denis Chaudet is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are fontaine de Léda. Work by Achille Valois is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of Ceramics and Musée de l'Histoire de France. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Among his early works is the Fontaine de Léda (1806–08) in Fontainebleau style re-sited in the Jardin du Luxembourg. At the restoration of the Bourbons he hastened to execute a bust of Louis XVIII. In 1816 he sculpted a portrait of Madame Royale the duchesse d'Angoulême, eldest daughter of the late Louis XVI. His bust of the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet, with whom he had also studied, exhibited at the Salon of 1817, was bought in 1820 for the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers. He contributed a marble bas-relief of children representing Medicine intended for a fountain in Place de la Bastille (1817) colossal statues of Louis XVI for Montpellier and the cast-iron Pêche des coquillages (1838–40) to the central Fontaines de la Concorde, designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff for Place de la Concorde. Between 1816 and 1827 he produced a statue of Louis XVI, which originally stood in Montpellier before being given as a gift to the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 1966. As a draughtsman, Valois produced a drawing of the triumphal arrival of celebrated works of art from the Vatican in Paris, 1798, that was copied on a Sèvres porcelain "Etruscan" vase (Vase Étrusque à rouleaux) in 1813. Valois was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1825.

Achille Valois is recorded as having received Knight of the Legion of Honour.