Bosio, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, BARON, an eminent sculptor, born March 19, 1769, at Monaco; studied first at Paris, next in Italy, and first became famous by the figures which, at the request of Napoleon, he executed for the column in the Place Vendôme. Louis XVIII. and Charles X. also patronised Bosio, the former made him royal sculptor, the latter, a baron. He died director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, July 29, 1845.
Bosio, FRANÇOIS JOSEPH, BARON
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 341–342
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