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Tucked beneath leafy plane trees, this cast-iron Wallace fountain…

By Charles-Auguste Lebourg

Tucked beneath leafy plane trees, this cast-iron Wallace fountain… by Charles-Auguste Lebourg, Paris
Photo: Martin Robson from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0

Tucked beneath leafy plane trees, this cast-iron Wallace fountain glows verdigris-green as four caryatids hold up a domed cap — a quiet relic of 1870s Paris, when Richard Wallace gifted the city free drinking water and civic grace.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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