Monument au sport et à Mayssonnié

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L'Heraklès archer is a sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle, located in Toulouse in the Haute-Garonne, square of the Heracles at the crossroads of the Lascrosses Boulevard, the aisle of Barcelona and Avenue Paul-Séjourné, near the Brienne Canal. It was at the initiative of Paul Voivenel in 1925 that this Herakles archer was installed in memory of the athletes who died in the 1914-1918 war. This monument to the dead is also dedicated to the Toulouse rugbyman Alfred Mayssonnié.