# Ludovic Trarieux

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The Ludovic Trarieux monument stands in Square Claude Nicolas Ledoux, beside Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris’s fourteenth arrondissement. French artist Jean Boucher created this stone sculpture, inaugurated in 1907. Its surviving groups present justice and human rights through carved stone figures. Architect Lesage designed the groups before Boucher carved them. The garden gives the work a quiet setting near the busy Parisian square.

Ludovic Trarieux founded the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme and became its first president. He was born in 1840 and worked as a French politician. His public career connected the tribute with human rights and the Dreyfus Affair. He died in 1904 after defending human rights. The original bronze bust was melted during the Nazi occupation in the Second World War. It has never returned to the monument. The international human rights prize bearing his name began in 1984. Nelson Mandela became its first recipient in 1985.

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