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English: Gabriel Guay, Les bourreaux des bois, exhibited at the Paris Salons of 1909 and 1914, installed in 1922 at the Mairie de Bourges, France. Guay's inspiration was a an poem by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585), "Elégies, XXIV, Contre les bûcherons de la forêt de Gastine," specifically these verses, which were printed on the painting's frame:

Ecoute, bûcheron, arrête un peu le bras;
Çe ne sont pas des bois que tu jette en bas.
...
Combien de feux, de fers, de morts et de détresses
Mérites-tu, méchant, pour tuer nos déesses?
...
Tout deviendra muet, Echo sera sans voix,
Tu deviendras campagne, et, en lieu de tes bois
Dont l'ombrage incertain lentement se remue,

Tu sentiras le soc, le coutre et la charrue.
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Author Gabriel Guay

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Gabriel Guay, Les bourreaux des bois, 1909; placed in the Mairie de Bourges, France in 1922; 316 x 500 cm.

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