Charlemagne et ses Leudes, generally translated as Charlemagne and His Guards or Charlemagne and His Paladins, is a monumental bronze statue situated on the south side of the Parvis Notre-Dame – Place Jean-Paul-II in front of Notre-Dame, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. A joint work by the brothers Louis Rochet (1813-1878) and Charles Rochet (1815-1900), it was cast at the art foundry Fonderie Thiébaut Frères.
The Rochet brothers first conceived the project of a monument to Charlemagne in 1853. They initially intended it for Aachen. They presented a plaster version at the Universal Exposition of 1867.
The completed bronze group was exhibited at the Universal Exposition of 1878 shortly after the death of Louis Rochet.
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