BOUCHARDON, EDME (1698-1762), French sculptor, was born at Chaumont on May 29, 1698, and died on July 27, 1762, in Paris. He was a pupil of Guillaume Coustou, and spent ten years in Rome, where he made a striking bust of Pope Benedict XIII. (1730). His most famous work is the fountain in the Rue de Grenelle, Paris, begun in 1740.
See Comte de Caylus, Vie d'Edme Bouchardon (1762), and Lady Dilke, French Architects and Sculptors of the 28th Century (1900).