C215

Christian Guemy

<div><strong>1979</strong>: 4 years after obtaining the presidency of the court of Tehran, she is forced to resign when conservative religious come to power, women no longer having the right to exercise this position. A <strong>human rights activist</strong>, <strong>Shirin Ebadi</strong> becomes the unofficial <strong>spokesperson for Iranian women</strong> and fights for a greater role in public life. <br><strong>1995</strong>: She founded the Iranian <strong>Organization for the Protection of the Rights of the Child</strong> and the <strong>Association of Human Rights Defenders in Iran</strong> in <strong>2001</strong>.<br>Sentenced to imprisonment in&nbsp;<strong>2001&nbsp;</strong>for revealing the violence of religious extremists drawing world attention to human rights violations in Iran.</div>

Shirin Ebadi

<div><strong>The youngest son of Clovis and Clotilde</strong>, he became the only king of Francia (Frankish Empire) in 558 and kept Soissons as his capital. <strong>He founded the abbey Saint-Médard</strong> where he would be buried. A carved portrait of Clotaire I is exhibited in the local history room of the Saint-Léger museum of Soissons.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Clotaire 1er

<div><strong>He is the son of Charles Martel</strong> and the father of Charlemagne. In 751 he was <strong>proclaimed king in Soissons</strong>. By ousting the last Merovingian king, he laid the foundations of the Carolingian dynasty. Until the end of his reign, the Soissonais is a privileged place of royalty.</div>

Pépin le Bref

<div>This <strong>Dutch painter</strong> born in Utrecht also works in Italy and France. At the Museum of Soissons, <strong>a child portrait</strong> signed by his hand is dated 1637.
<br>On this picture is <strong>the little dog</strong>, attentive to the orders of his young mistress. He is a metaphor for good education.</div>

Le Chien de Johan Cornelisz Van Loenen

<div><strong>Wealthy heir</strong> of the famous American banker John Pierpont Morgan, this lover of France <strong>helped the people of Aisne</strong> particularly affected by the Great War. In 1917, she and her friend Anne Murray Dike created the <strong>American Committee for Devastated Regions (CARD)</strong>.</div>

Anne Morgan

<div><strong>The Crepin and Crépinien shoemakers</strong> made shoes for the poor. Christians from Rome, they preached in Soissons but were arrested and martyred. Their worship has long been popular as evidenced by the churches built in their honor and the sculptures of the two saints at the Saint-Léger museum.
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Saint Crépin et Saint Crépinien

<div>Despite his pacifist positions, his age and his health problems, this writer voluntarily enlisted in the infantry from the beginning of the Great War. His novel, The Fire, <strong>Prix Goncourt 1916</strong>, recounts his battles on the front line in the Soissonais.</div>

Henri Barbusse

<div>From 1668, the painter Pieter Boel from Antwerp<strong> practiced at the Royal Menagerie </strong>of Louis XIV at Versailles. He painted <strong>animals from different points of view </strong>and attitudes and works on the rendering of fur. These rabbits are extracted from a work of his hand exposed in the museum Saint-Léger.</div>

Les Lapins

<div><strong>His childhood in the Valois</strong> left a mark on his literary works as well as his travels in Europe and the East. Friend of Théophile Gautier,<strong> he rubs shoulders with the great figures of Romanticism.</strong> From 1841, his hallucinations and his fits of madness inspire his writings but also lead him to end his life.</div>

Gérard de Nerval

<div><strong>Born in Fère-en-Tardenois</strong>, she spent her childhood not far from Soissons in Villeneuve-sur-Fère before starting her career as a sculptor. Her passion for <strong>Auguste Rodin</strong>, to whom she was pupil, assistant, mistress and muse, led her to madness and internment.</div>

Camille Claudel

<div><strong>Saint-Just was a boarder in Soissons</strong> from 1779 to 1785 at the Saint-Nicolas des Oratoriens Collège (now Saint-Just Collège), a renowned establishment where his uncle and father had already studied. <strong>Exalted by the Revolution</strong>, he bound himself to Robespierre alongside whom he took the fall. He died on the scaffold.</div>

Louis Antoine de Saint Just

<div><strong>Founder of realistic painting</strong>, politically active, he took an active part in the Paris Commune (1871) becoming director of the Fine Arts. Exiled to Switzerland, however, he still becomes quite successful throughout Europe. The Saint-Léger museum of Soissons displays a Landscape painted by Courbet in 1873.</div>

Gustave Courbet

<div><strong>This Venetian painter, sensitive to the Baroque style</strong>, became known throughout Europe in the eighteenth century thanks to large decorative ensembles and his mythological and allegorical works. Two large paintings for the College of Oratorians of Soissons are among the treasures of the museum Saint-Léger.&nbsp;<br><br></div>

Alexandre par Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

<div>A lot of street artists choose a city animal, representative of them, as their emblem or their signature. <strong>C215 for his part, has chosen cats</strong>. He appreciates their muteness and their mysterious vibe.</div>

Le Chat

<div>Ever since her fur business on the Rue Saint-Martin in Soissons, this résistante participated from 1940 with her husband Jean Vogel in the "La Vérité Française" network. Imprisoned several times and deported to Ravensbrück in 1944, she bore the aftermath of deportation for the rest of her life.<br>She passed away on 12 September 2018.</div>

Germaine Vogel 

<div><strong>Actor of theater and cinema</strong>, he is one of the principal stars of the 1950s. His youth, his beauty and his charisma earned him an international reputation. <strong>In the theater, with Jean Vilar</strong>, he assured a huge popular success in the classical repertoire. He died prematurely of a devastating cancer.</div>

Gérard Philipe 

<div>This portrait of a young romantic-looking girl, made <strong>after an old postcard</strong>, is the first work of C215 in Soissons. In June 2017, with the theft of the door, the work was gone. On the powder magazine of the Arsenal, it is again in the spotlight on the site of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes.
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La Dame de Soissons

<div><strong>The Adoration of the Shepherds</strong> of the Flemish baroque painter Pierre Paul Rubens is visible in the cathedral. The work was made around 1618-1620 in Antwerp, then sold <strong>to the bishop who sat in Soissons</strong> from 1624 to 1656. On the painting are the coat of arms of Soissons and those of the prelate.</div>

Pierre Paul Rubens

<div><strong>Survivor of concentration camps</strong>, she is noted in the political environment by <strong>her beliefs</strong>. Her name is attached to the law that decriminalized abortion on January 17, 1975. Soissons owes her the <strong>construction of the new hospital in 1977</strong>.</div>

Simone Veil

<div><strong>Active in the Resistance</strong> during the Second World War, he created the secret army commanded by General de Gaulle in October 1942, and became the first president of the National Council of Resistance. He was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo and died in prison in 1943.</div>

Jean Moulin

<div><strong>A young teacher in Paris</strong>, she adhered to revolutionary movements. <strong>Captured during the Paris Commune</strong>, she was deported to New Caledonia in 1873. She stayed there for 7 years. Back in France, she resumed her militant activities and became a revolutionary figure, an anarchist and a feminist.</div>

Louise Michel

<div><strong>Chief of the French Resistance</strong> during the Second World War, General de Gaulle is also the founder of the Fifth Republic, of which he is <strong>the first president in 1958</strong>. Soissons is the starting point of his official trip to Picardy from 11 to 14 June 1964 .</div>

Charles de Gaulle

<div><strong>Made famous by the lyricism of his poems</strong>, member of the French Academy, he entered politics starting from 1830. During the Revolution of 1848, he became part of the Provisional Government. In particular, he signed the Decree to Abolish Slavery in the French Colonies on April 27, 1848.</div>

Alphonse de Lamartine 

<div><strong>Impressionist painter</strong>, friend of Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, he is recognized from 1883 when his style starts evolving towards representations with more precise contours. A small feminine portrait of his hand is on display at the Saint-Léger museum of Soissons.</div>

Pierre Auguste Renoir 

<div>This Burgundian princess became&nbsp;<strong>Queen of the Franks by marrying Clovis</strong> around 493 in Soissons. Her Christian upbringing, the advice and the protection granted by the bishop Saint Remi of Reims favored the conversion of Clovis.</div>

Clotilde

<div><strong>The Maid of Orleans</strong> had a short stay in Soissons in 1429, after the coronation of King Charles VII in Reims. The following year, abandoned by her troops, she was denied access to the city. <strong>Captured in Compiegne</strong>, she was sold to the English in 1430 by the Count de Ligny.</div>

Jeanne d’Arc

<div><strong>Au cellier de St Jean</strong> :<br><br></div><div>Le thème de la Paix, avec la colombe qui accueille le public.<br><br></div><div>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Sur la gauche</strong> :<br>– Personnalités ayant œuvré pour la Paix à divers titres,<br>– Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme à la Révolution,<br>– Aristide Briand, prix Nobel de la Paix et fondateur de la Société des Nations,<br>– Woodrow Wilson, président des Etats-Unis, pour la Guerre 14-18,<br>– Malala, jeune Pakistanaise et son combat pour l’éducation et l’émancipation des filles,<br>– etc.<br><br></div><div>&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Sur la droite</strong> :<br>– Un hommage à ceux qui ont été assassinés dans leur combat : Rosa Luxembourg, Matin Luther King, Isaac Rabin, Jean Jaurés, etc.<br><br></div><div>Enfin il y a une statue (la première qu’a réalisée C215) dans la crypte de St Léger.<br><br></div>

Cellier de l’abbaye Saint Jean des Vignes

<div>Une statue (en forme de pochoir) de C215 dans la crypte de St Léger.</div>

Crypte de l'abbaye Saint Léger

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