Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — DEDICATE “LA FRANCE" BUST [ARTICLE]

DEDICATE “LA FRANCE" BUST

French and Americans Unite in Honoring the Memory of Champlain at Crown Point. Crown Point, Lake Champlain, N. Y., May 3. —Auguste Rodin’s bust, “La Prance,” was dedicated here today to the French gentleman, explorer and adventurer, Samuel D. Champlain, who discovered the lake on July 20, 1619. ▼he impressive services were attended by many prominent New York state officials and a large delegation of French savants, headed by Gabriel Hanotaux, former French secretary of state for foreign affairs. The bust, which is considered one of the best works of the famous sculptor, shows the figure of a woman with a background of bronze. Her head is draped with a flimsy veil bearing an inscription in French. Prominent among the party of visiting Frenchmen was Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, the famous advocate of world-wide peace. In nis speech at the dedication Baron de Constant said, that the United States, England and France led the world in the peace movement and prophesied that all nations would in time realize that money spent for articles of war could be more wisely distributed for educational purposes. He closed his address with a fervid Champlain and his life.