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Frédéric Chopin by Paul Dubois

Paris, Italy

Frédéric Chopin by Paul Dubois

The Frédéric Chopin Memorial (French: monument de Frédéric Chopin) is a monument in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, located in the Luxembourg Garden, near Guynemer Street. It is dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, a 19th-century composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. The monument h

as a form of a bronze bust placed on a granite pedestal, with a relief of a women's profile. It was designed by Georges Dubois and unveiled in 1901. The bust disappeared in the 1940s, during the German occupation of Paris in the Second World War, and its replica, designed by Bolesław Syrewicz, was unveiled in 1999.

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