Louis Botinelly created several war memorials and statues for churches. He was influenced by a style-mixture between the Figurative Tradition and Modernism. The offspring of a family of stonemasons studied in Marseille and then went for a year to Italy, then to Paris as a student of Jules Coutan at the École des Beaux-Arts. After World War I, he returned to Marseilles. After World War II, he created mainly religious art. In 1955 he became an officer of the Legion d’Honneur. A plaster figure titled Footballeur was presented by Botinelly in 1930 in the Salon des artistes français.