The sculptor Jacques Villeneuve was a student of Gabriel-Jules Thomas and Jean-Antoine Injalbert in Paris. At the salons at the turn of the century, he received several awards. He created statues for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and became professor of stone and marble sculpturing at the École des Beaux-Arts. Among other things, he created a monument to the novelist Ferdinand Fabre in 1906. After World War I, he designed a number of monuments. In 1906 he was made a knight and in 1923 an officer in the Legion of Honor.
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