Léon-Ernest Drivier was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 illustrator

Illustrator

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 and sculptor.

He entered the School of Fine Arts

School of Fine Arts

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, then worked from 1907 in the studio of Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin

François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...

. He was the friend of the sculptors Auguste de Niederhausern, Gaston Schnegg, Jane Poupelet, Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle , originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, was an influential and prolific French sculptor, painter, and teacher.-Career:...

, among others. In 1918, he made a bust of France official winner. His first time was akin to neo-Romanticism

Neo-romanticism

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, and then came close to neo-classicism of Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau

Charles Despiau was a French sculptor.Despiau was born at Mont-de-Marsan, Landes and attended first the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and later the Ecole des Beaux Arts...

. He was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1943.

Main works

• La France apportant la paix et la prospérité aux colonies : a ten-meter gilden bronze statue, representing the warrior Athena
  Athena
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   with a spear, overlooking a pond at several levels, Porte Dorée in Paris. This statue was placed there for its proximity to the Museum of Colonial opened in 1931 for the International Colonial Exhibition.
• Les Muses and La Joie de vivre, made to the Jardins du Trocadéro
  Jardins du Trocadéro
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   for the 1937 Exposition Universelle
  Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)
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• The Monument aux morts de Strasbourg, opened in 1936 by Albert Lebrun
  Albert Lebrun
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  . This is one of the few monuments dedicated to the French dead pacifists.