She was metaphorically protecting the French republic. In 1941 the Germans melted the sculpture down to reuse the metal and in 1956 Baumel created a replacement in stone. For this school in Challuy Baumel created a limestone sculpture whose four sides represent a different season. A young man dancing amongst flowers depicts Spring, a young woman with wheat depicts Summer, another harvests grapes and depicts Autumn whilst a man hewing wood depicts winter. For the Lycée de Davayé, Baumel created a sculpture of a naked youth and a horse. The work was part of the 1% artistic program, whereby 1% of the cost of a new school would be put aside to pay for a work of art for that school. Baumel created a memorial to those railway men who laid down their lives in the 1939-1945 war.