With his round glasses, his feature haircut and a pencil stuck on the ear , Cabu throne of the northeast side of the tower, at the second balcony. In contrast, the southwest side, replied Georges Wolinski a “stalker” surrounded by two naked women, mouth wide open to let spend the discharge of water.
A surprise imagined by Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of historical monuments and head of the renovation project (October 2014-June 2015) which was to redo the cement joints and clean the tower to restore its original whiteness. “During the work, it was expected that two gargoyles are recreated,” said Frederic Henry, assistant administrator of the towers of La Rochelle in the National Monuments Centre, responsible for the maintenance of the three Rochelaises towers built between the 12th and the 15th century.
An old tradition
“After the attack on January 7, Philippe Villeneuve had the idea of these emblems on this building which once served as a place of deprivation of liberty (the Four Sergeants charged with conspiracy under the Restoration were locked before it being guillotined in 1822, Ed) to honor them and to all the artists threatened in the world. He did not tell anyone, but once it’s unveiled, nobody was against, “says Frédéric Henry. The building is also called Tower of the Four Sergeants.
With these striking gargoyles, Philippe Villeneuve continues a centuries-old tradition among the stonemasons of leaving a fingerprint, often veiled but sometimes very explicitly, in their way, like the pair of buttocks carved on a frieze decorating the cathedral of Bourges.
The tower of the lantern tower also known as the Four Sergeants (DR.)
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