Charles Louis Eugène Virion (

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, 1 December 1865"VIRION, Charles Louis Eugène." ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford Art Online'',

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. Retrieved 23 June 2014. - Montigny-sur-Loing, 30 December 1946) was a noted French sculptor,

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, and ceramicist, principally of animals.Charles Louis Eugene Virion
National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States, 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2014. Virion studied sculpture in Paris under Jean-Paul Aubé and Charles Gauthier and exhibited at the

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from 1886 until the 1930s. He was awarded a distinction in 1893 and became a member the same year. He won a third-class medal in 1895. At the Paris '' Exposition Universelle'' of 1900 he won a bronze medal. He also exhibited at the Salon des Animaliers after 1913. After the First World War, he made memorials for several municipalities including those of Montigny-sur-Loing,

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, La Genevraye and Arbonne-la-Forêt.

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