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The main feature, called the Fontaine de Varsovie (Fountain of Warsaw), is a long basin, or water mirror, with twelve fountain creating columns of water 12 metres high; twenty four smaller fountains four metres high; and ten arches of water. At one end, facing the Seine, are twenty powerful water cannons, able to project a jet of water fifty ...
The fountain honors émile Levassor, the winner of the 1895 Paris to Bordeaux automobile race, and is the only fountain in Paris with a bas-relief of an automobile. Fontaine des Amours de Bagatelle , Parc-de-Batagelle, 16th arrondissement, (1919).
View of the Palais de Chaillot and the Jardins du Trocadéro from the Eiffel Tower in 2015 Fountain of Warsaw, with the Palais de Chaillot in the background. The Palais de Chaillot (French pronunciation: [palɛ d(ə) ʃajo]) is a building at the top of the Chaillot hill [] in the Trocadéro area in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Fountain of the Parvis of the Palais Omnisport of Paris or Fontaine du Canyoneaustrate, Parc du Bercy, 1988. Gérard Singer, sculptor. A modern rendition of a water-carved natural canyon. Fontaine Charenton, Square, 177 rue de Charenton, 1986–1992. Fontaine Courteline, Place Courteline. Date unknown.
Between 1546 and 1549, the merchants of Paris built the first Renaissance-style fountain in Paris, the Fontaine des Innocents, to commemorate the ceremonial entry of the King Henry II of France into the city. The fountain, which originally stood against the wall of the church of the Holy Innocents, was moved and rebuilt several times and now ...
The Fountain of the Rivers, to the north, closer to the Madeleine church, has large figures supporting the vasque who represent the Rhône River and the Rhine River. The other major figures represent the main harvests of France; Wheat and Grapes, Flowers and Fruit.
Tourists in Paris hopped into the Pyramide de Louvre fountain to beat the heat on Tuesday, July 19, as temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) throughout France.This video ...
The fontaine Saint-Michel was part of the great project for the reconstruction of Paris overseen by Baron Haussmann during the French Second Empire. In 1855 Haussmann completed an enormous new boulevard, originally called boulevard de Sébastopol-rive-gauche, now called Boulevard Saint-Michel, which opened up the small place Pont-Saint-Michel into a much larger space.