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Marcel Mérignargues

French sculptor (1884–1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ59582940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marcel Mérignargues (17 March 1884 – 14 September 1965) was a French sculptor. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Marcel Mérignargues” is french sculptor (1884–1965). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Marcel, Mérignargues and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1884, 1965, 1928, 1932—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1884-03-17. For this dossier, Marcel, Mérignargues and French is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q59582940. VIAF identifies the subject as 206128026. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1965, 1928 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marcel Mérignargues” 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.