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Adolphe Charlet

French sculptor (1908-2009)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2824790 ↗
Source-derived summary

Adolphe Charlet (22 June 1908 – 20 March 2009) was a French sculptor. He won the Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1938.

Early life

Adolphe Charlet was born on 22 June 1908 in Verdun. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts.

Career

Charlet won the Prix de Rome in Sculpture in for Je m'appelle Légion 1938.

Death

Charlet died on 20 March 2009.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Adolphe Charlet” as french sculptor (1908-2009). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 2009, 1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-06-22. The account is most persuasive where Adolphe, Charlet and French can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french sculptor (1908-2009). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2824790. VIAF identifies the subject as 100351486. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 2009 and 1938.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adolphe Charlet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.