Maxime Real del Sarte

Maxime Real del Sarte studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Roger de Villiers is recorded as having studied under Maxime Real del Sarte. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public. Positions recorded include president of the Camelots du Roi. Works named in the authority record are equestrian statue of Maréchal Joffre, monument to Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Navarin Ossuary: Monument to the Dead of the Champagne Armies and Jeanne au bûcher by Maxime Real del Sarte. Work by Maxime Real del Sarte is recorded in the collections of Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Francisque, Médaille militaire, Knight of the Legion of Honour and Croix de guerre 1914–1918.

• Name — Maxime Réal del Sarte • Born — 2 May 1888 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 15 February 1954 (age 65) • Place of death — near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France • Occupation — Sculptor • Relatives — Georges Bizet

Maxime Real del Sarte was born on 2 May 1888 in Paris, France, as the son of the sculptor Louis Desire Real and Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte. He was a cousin of the painter Thérèse Geraldy and was also related to the composer Georges Bizet. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts, and by 1911 was at the Académie Julian, where both his mother and an aunt were teachers. He served in World War I, in the 106th Infantry Regiment of the French Army and had his left arm amputated in 1916 after being wounded at Verdun on 29 January.

He became involved with the right-wing Action française, where he became associated with Charles Maurras, Léon Daudet, Jacques Bainville, Maurice Pujo, Henri Vaugeois and Léon de Montesquiou. He founded and led the Action française-affiliated royalist youth organisation the Camelots du roi. He was a devout and fervent Roman Catholic with a strong devotion to Joan of Arc. When he found out that Amédée Thalamas, a professor at the Lycee Condorcet who was critical of Joan of Arc, was to give lectures at the Sorbonne, he made sure to disrupt their course with his collaborators. He founded the organization "Les Compagnons de Jeanne d'Arc". He was wounded in an anti-parliamentary clash on 6 February 1934. His statue of General Charles Mangin, which was made thanks to a subscription launched by Marshal Foch and erected on the Place Denys-Cochin, was destroyed by the Germans who occupied Paris in October 1940, on the express orders of Adolf Hitler, one of only two statues in Paris he ordered destroyed. During World War II, he was awarded a medal by the Vichy regime.

He died on 15 February 1954 near Saint-Jean-de-Luz.