Statue of man in coat next to the statue of 'The Thinker' in the metro station Varenne.
Auguste Rodin created the statue of Balzac from 1891 - 1898. It is said then when he presented his statue and it wasn't received favourably, he insisted in keeping his work.
The statues are made out of fibreglass, the original is at the musée Rodin, for which Varenne is the metro station.
