Maurice Defoin - Dinant - Belgique
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[FR] Monument avec un portrait en bronze en relief de Maurice Defoin. [EN] Monument with a bronze relief portrait of Maurice Defoin.
Waymark Code: WM153AC
Location: Namur, Belgium
Date Posted: 10/07/2021
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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[FR]

" Maurice DEFOIN, co-fondateur de l’Union Motor Dinant, pilote talentueux, conseiller communal libéral à Dinant (1926-1927), exerçait le métier de marchand de bois. Le 2 octobre 1927, il se tue accidentellement à Profondeville alors qu’il se rend à Bruxelles à moto pour participer à la dernière manche du Rallye National Gillet.

Outre la création du Grand Prix Maurice Defoin, le comité de l’U.M.D. inaugure, le 21 avril 1928, près du Rocher Bayard, une stèle-mémorial en granito d’après le plan de l’architecte Edouard Frankinet père.
Le médailleur Alexandre Daoust a conçu un médaillon à l’effigie du coureur destiné à orner l’une des faces du mémorial. Au bas de l’inscription Maurice Defoin, une plaque en bronze, de forme rectangulaire, évoque de façon allégorique la Mort fauchant l’infortuné conducteur, sa moto accidentée à gauche."

[EN]

"Maurice DEFOIN, co-founder of the Union Motor Dinant, talented pilot, liberal town councillor in Dinant (1926-1927), was a wood merchant. On 2 October 1927, he was accidentally killed in Profondeville while travelling to Brussels by motorbike to take part in the last round of the Gillet National Rally.

In addition to the creation of the Maurice Defoin Grand Prix, the U.M.D. committee inaugurated a granite memorial stele on 21 April 1928 near the Rocher Bayard, according to the plan of the architect Edouard Frankinet père.
The medallist Alexandre Daoust designed a medallion in the effigy of the runner to adorn one side of the memorial. At the bottom of the inscription Maurice Defoin, a rectangular bronze plaque allegorically evokes Death mowing down the unfortunate driver, his crashed motorbike on the left."

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Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 05/21/1928

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Where is this sculpture?:
Rue Defoin
Dinant, Wallonie Belgique
5500


Sculptors Name: Alex Daoust

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