Veilleur de pierre

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A stone watchman (or Le Veilleur de pierre) is a sculpture by sculptor Georges Salendre and architect Louis Thomas, installed in 1948 at the intersection between rue Gasparin and Place Bellecour in Lyon. It is a memorial of the French internal resistance recalling the assassination by the Germans of the resistors Albert Chambonnet, Gilbert Dru, Léon Pfeffer, René Bernard and Francis Chirat precisely at the location of the sculpture (then the café "Le Moulin à vent"), on July 27, 1944.