Eugène Bourgoin first attended the School of Applied Arts in Reims and from 1900 the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Later he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. His niece Danièle Guyader-Follias became a well-known ballet dancer. Taken as a POW during WWI, Bourgoin never forgot the faces of the wounded and the captured, and in their honor he built several monuments after the war throughout France. His works also included portraits, historical and religious themes, sacral gold work, but also lamps, tables, and jewelry. He died only a few months after the end of the 1924 Paris Olympics.
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