Fontaine Wallace - Place des Droits de l'Enfant

<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/90442945@N06/10770036425/" title="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_11DSC_8849 by Genie Paris, on Flickr"><img alt="2012 Oct 7 Sun am_11DSC_8849" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7436/10770036425_e449b4874f_c.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Sunday Paris Market</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Families and neighbors gather just off Rue d'Alésia </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">in a tiny square of shade trees and a spot of grass on Sunday mornings. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dogs, children, and musicians play </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">around the centerpiece of a Wallace Fountain.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Although there are no closed streets, </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the only traffic seems to be the vendors and the shoppers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Place des Droits de l'Enfant</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">88, rue de la Tombe Issoire,</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75014, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>

Fontaine Wallace - Place des Droits de l'Enfant

Sunday Paris Market Families and neighbors gather just off Rue d'Alésia  in a tiny square of shade trees and a spot of grass on Sunday m...

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Fontaine Wallace -- Marais

<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZ-BwEq6oTYNY5jE0LGJXY6JE1bWfOvAJKTgLQYu0rH9waJXGdHXF-ECOJXbmv1si9H80o9bcG9YCLm51eyCDhCeaRkJrhSja9nuFbvS6X9K9VzP2SO_laldcZ_XWhP73S7SDOp7GPUM/s1600/2010+dec+paris+holly+IMG_3480+color.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590036958728862050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGZ-BwEq6oTYNY5jE0LGJXY6JE1bWfOvAJKTgLQYu0rH9waJXGdHXF-ECOJXbmv1si9H80o9bcG9YCLm51eyCDhCeaRkJrhSja9nuFbvS6X9K9VzP2SO_laldcZ_XWhP73S7SDOp7GPUM/s640/2010+dec+paris+holly+IMG_3480+color.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" /></a></p><br /><p></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;">This 1870s cast-iron sculpture is one of the more than 77 public water fountains scattered throughout Paris, financed, conceived, and drawn by Sir Richard Wallace, a British billionaire. He directed that these fountains be both useful and beautiful, blending in with his adopted city. The fountain above was the original design of Wallace, sculpted by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, the first of four designs to be installed. This one in the Marais (4ième arr.) incorporates 4 caryatids representing "kindness," "simplicity," "charity," and "sobriety" and features dolphins on the dome.<p></p> <br />For years I saw these fountains and never knew the story behind them, how they have for over a century provided potable water to Parisians and visitors. Most of them are still in use. <br /><p></p><br />In a few weeks I will be looking for the other three styles... just because. </span></p>

Fontaine Wallace -- Marais

This 1870s cast-iron sculpture is one of the more than 77 public water fountains scattered throughout Paris, financed, conceived, and drawn ...

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