Jules Édouard Valtat, who was born August 7, 1838 in Troyes and died for his country during the Siege of Paris in January 1871, was a French sculptor.
Background
Son of the sculptor François Joseph Valtat, Jules Édouard Valtat specialized in religious sculpture and sculpture of his wife Ursula Mathelin (Troyes1815 -). While young he had a taste for the arts and followed in the footsteps of his father. He or his father had the idea of applying the molding process to achieve the production of religious statues.
Education
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Career
He became a student at the local art school in Troyes. He continued his training in the workshop of Francisque Duret at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. He was appointed leader the group Faune et Bacchante (Wildlife and Bacchae) in 1859, to decorate the jardin d"acclimation in Paris whose architect Gabriel Davioud and landscape designer Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps were given charge of the development work by the Société impériale zoologique d"acclimatation (Imperial Zoological Society of acclimatization) which was founded by Geoffroy Saint Hilaire in 1854.
The garden was opened on 6 October 1860 by Napoleon III. Collector of architectural decoration, he donated to the museum of archaeology and natural history of his hometown, located in the former Abbey of Saint-Loup in Troyes, architectural elements like a fragment from the church steeple of Saint-Urbain, dating from the thirteenth century, or an epitaph from a sixteenth century tomb stone, and a keystone of an osuary dating from the twelfth century from the church at Chesley.
Participating in the defense of the siege of Paris in January 1871, he was shot at during an outing against the Prussians. He was evacuated to Troyes, where he died as a result of his injuries a few days later, January 19, 1871.
By decree of 12 January 1907, the City Council of the city of Troyes adopted the proposal of Mr. Gruot to rename the street of Haut-de-la-Mission as Valtat and gives his name to the street.