Statue of Venus – Abbé Henri Boudet
Rennes-les-Bains

Paul Smith
01.08.2021

A statue of Venus was reportedly discovered by Abbé Henri Boudet in Rennes-les-Bains (he was an amateur archaeologist), and it was reported that the priest did not have a good opinion of this relic due to his sexual prudery. It was reportedly sold to America.

Urbain Gibert, “Notes Historiques sur les Bains de Montferrand devenues les Bains de Rennes, Actuellement Rennes-les-Bains” (Bulletin de la Société d’Ètudes Scientifiques de l’Aude, Tome LXXIII, 1973, pages 213-226)
Page 221.



“Boudet, at the beginning of the century ..... found a very beautiful statue of Venus, but he found this statue “demonic” and did not want to preserve it – an archaeologist from Beziers took it. It was later sold in America. (Information collected by the painter, Mrs. Martin-Duclos, of Rennes-les-Bains). M. Certain (Mémoires de la Société des Arts et des Sciences, Carcassonne, 3rd series, t. VII) also reported: 40 years ago, the cure of Rennes-les-Bains, M. Boudet, found in the excavations made at (maison Chaluleau) a statue of Venus.”



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