# Cayenne Victor Schoelcher statue by Louis-Ernest Barrias

- By: Cayambe
- Date: 2013-03-23
- Classification: Sculpture
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cayenne_Victor_Schoelcher_statue_by_Louis-Ernest_Barrias.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Cayenne_Victor_Schoelcher_statue_by_Louis-Ernest_Barrias.jpg/1920px-Cayenne_Victor_Schoelcher_statue_by_Louis-Ernest_Barrias.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

French Guiana, Cayenne, square Victor-Schoelcher: statue of Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893), with a slave whom he shows the way to liberty, following the definitive abolition of slavery in 1848 in France. The monument was erected in 1896, the statue is by the French sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905), it is listed as Cultural Heritage Monument since 1999.