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Fontaine de l'Observatoire

author: S.Beaucourt/Novapix

reference: a-cad01-00125

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 33 cm

The Fontaine de l'Observatoire is a monumental fountain located south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, with sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was dedicated in 1874. It is also known as the Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde, for the four parts of the world embodied by its female figures.

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19TH CENTURY - 2011 - ASTRONOMY - FRANCE - MERIDIAN - MONUMENT - OBSERVATORY - PARIS - SCULPTURE - TERRESTRIAL GLOBE - ZODIAC -