From Wikipedia: "Armand Joseph Bruat (Colmar, 26 May 1796 – Montebello, off Toulon, 19 November 1855) was a French admiral." It then goes on to describe how he got people killed & invaded & colonized third world countries. I'll spare you the details, you can look it up if you're curious. Instead here's a Google translation of the French Wikipedia article on Hippolyte Maindron, who sculpted this piece - which is somewhat entertaining for the grammatical & cultural errors in it's translation: "Etienne Hippolyte Maindron is a sculptor born in French in 1801 in Champtoceaux (Maine-et-Loire) and died in Paris on March 21 1884 . From humble beginnings, Maindron is trying out different jobs before leaving his country to the capital by obtaining an annual award granted to him by the department of Maine-et-Loire. In Paris he entered the studio of his countryman David d'Angers, where he studied until 1838, and will help it to carry out the relief of the pediment Pantheon La Patrie crowning the famous men. Under the Second Empire , the state commission also Maindron to two groups to be placed under the building entrance peristyle Attila and St. Genevieve (1857) and The Conversion of Clovis by Saint Remi (1865). These two groups have been returned to the museum reserves during the last restoration of the monument, no longer on site; recently restored, they are exposed in the Church of Our Lady of Cholet. Maindron exhibited for the first time at the Salon in 1834 a shepherd bitten by a snake. Denied the following year the Salon, he repeated in 1838. However, it was in 1839 that he found success at the Salon with his Velleda." My favorite line is "they are exposed in the Church of Our Lady of Cholet" which in it's original French has to do with the exhibition of art, but which when translated this way brings to mind images of flashers in trenchcoats committing sacrilege...