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Jules Blanchard (25 May 1832 – 2 May 1916) was a French sculptor.

Blanchard was born in Puiseaux. He was the son-in-law of sculptor Denis Foyatier. He was a student of François Jouffroy. Blanchard is perhaps best known for his renovation of the Fontaine du Palmier in the Place du Châtelet, Paris.

Selected works

• La Bocca della verità (La bouche de la vérité) (1871), statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
• Andromède (Salon de 1892), statue, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
• La Science (commande de 1882), statue, bronze, Paris, by the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
• Boccador, Paris, by the Hôtel de Ville
• Four caryatids, on the facade of the Hôtel de Ville
• Un jeune équilibriste (Salon de 1866), plaster
• Jeune Fille parlant au Sphinx, mairie de Puiseaux

• 1832 births
• 1916 deaths
• 20th-century French sculptors
• 20th-century French male artists
• 19th-century French male artists
• 19th-century French sculptors
• French male sculptors