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At The Docks
Carolyn Had To Climb To The Top
Orange-Triumphal archHanding the torch of art
In front of the main entrance into the theater (the Royal entrance, where Louis XIV is supposed to have said "this is the most beautiful wall of my whole kingdom") a group sculpted by the Montpellier born sculptor Injalbert (1845-1933) "l'âme antique remettant le flambeau de l'art au génie moderne" (the antic soul handing the torch of art to modern genius) symbolizes the rebirth of the ancient theater.
The second photo is an enlargement on the statues. A bare breasted woman holding a theater's mask, the antic soul, handles a torch to woman clad in an antique wear but with a 1900-looking bun, the modern genius.
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