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Louis Delapchier

French sculptor (1878-1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ53499843 ↗
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Louis Marie Jules Delapchier (19 October 1878 – 30 June 1959) was a French sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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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—1878, 1959, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1878-10-19. The account is most persuasive where Louis, Delapchier 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 (1878-1959). 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 Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q53499843. VIAF identifies the subject as 166098767. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1878, 1959 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Delapchier” 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.