LePage

 

Heinrich has had lots of opportunities to travel sine he has been in Germany, He even gets to travel to other countries. He recently had the chance to go to a village in the countryside in France. The name of the city he visited was called Damvillers. This little village is the home town of a famous French artist named Jules Bastien-LePage

 

The village is very proud of this painter. In the town park there is a memorial for LePage. The statue of him was made by an even more famous artist. His name is Rodin, Rodin is the sculptor that made the statue named “The Thinker”, the man sitting with his head on his hand that is very famous.

There is a plaque in the park that talks about the life of Jules LePage. It had a lot of interesting information but it was written in French which was a little tricky for Heinrich. The plaque told about a path leading through the town that had exhibits displaying pictures of some of LePage's paintings.

 

Heinrich went on a treasure hunt, trying to find each of the markers on the trail. The markers had copies of his pictures. Heinrich found one that showed portraits that LePage had painted of some of his family, including his mother and father. He had lots of nice pictures and it was fun trying to find them scattered around the paths in the city.