With them he took part in the short campaign in France of 1815, being in bivouac for several months near Mannheim and in the department of the Yonne.
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He gives his name to the Bavarian literary prize August-Graf-von-Platen-Preis.
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He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.