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The Smiling Angel (French: L'Ange au Sourire), also known as the Smile of Reims (Le Sourire de Reims), is a stone sculpture of the cathedral of Reims which was carved between 1236 and 1245.[1] This figure is in the north portal of the west facade of the cathedral.
The Angel statue was beheaded following a fire caused by a German shell on the cathedral of Reims, during World War I, on 19 September 1914, and the head broke into several pieces after falling from a height of four meters.[2]
The head was collected by the abbot Thinot the day after the fire,[3] and stored in the cellars of the Archbishop of Reims to be discovered by the architect Max Sainsaulieu on the 30 November 1915. It became an icon for the French wartime propaganda as a symbol of "French culture destroyed by German barbarity".
After the war, the original fragments were molded and preserved in the Musée national des Monuments Français. The already famous sculpture was restored and put back in place 13 February 1926.[4]
References
- Frédéric Delouche, Jacques Aldebert, Histoire de l'Europe, De Boeck Université, 1997, p.150.
- Charles Sarazin, « Le Sourire de Reims », in Sourire de Reims, n°2, abril 1929, 4 p.
- Livre d'Or du Clergé et des Congrégations, París, Bonne Presse, 1925
- L’Illustration, 3 abril 1926
На других языках
[de] Lächelnder Engel von Reims
Der Lächelnde Engel (französisch L’Ange au Sourire oder Sourire de Reims ‚Das Lächeln von Reims‘) ist eine um 1250 entstandene Skulptur im gotischen Stil an der Fassade der Kathedrale von Reims. Sie findet sich im nördlichen (linken) Gewände des nördlichen Portals der Westfassade. Ihr Name leitet sich vom Gesicht des Engels ab, welches ein heiteres, verhaltenes Lächeln zeigt.- [en] Smiling Angel
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