Charles Alphonse Achille Guméry (1827–1871): Sculptor of Parisian Grandeur Charles Alphonse Achille Guméry, born June 14, 1827, in Vaugirard, France, was a sculptor whose career flourished during the Second Empire and solidified his position as one of Paris’s most celebrated artists. He descended from a modest Savoyard family—his father, Nicolas Guméry, served as a schoolteacher—and possessed an innate artistic aptitude that propelled…