Fountain of the Innocent ones

The fountain of Innocent the is located in the middle of Paris in the district of the Halles (1 {{er}} district).

History

The fountain of angle of the Rebirth

The fountain of Innocent was carried out between 1546 and 1549, to replace a fountain going up at the time of Philippe Auguste, by Jean Goujon, on a drawing of Pierre Lescot, in order to celebrate the solemn entry of Henri II in Paris.

It was initially established with the crossing of the street Saint-Denis and the street to Irons (left current the street Berger). Leant with the church of Saint-Innocent, it did not have whereas three arcades decorated with nymphs and naïades.

The Tetrapylon of the traditional time

At the end of the 17th century, the whole of the cemeteries of Paris were emptied and replaced by the current cemeteries, located at the time outside the city.

The cemetery of innocent, more commonly qualified mass grave, and which was next to the church of innocent was emptied him also, following the collapse of a low wall in a cellar.

One moved the fountain to install it on the place of Innocent the recently created. It was thus necessary to carve a fourth vis-a-vis the fountain, work carried out in 1788 by Augustin Pajou, which endeavoured to find the same inspiration as its predecessor.

The displacement of 1858

When in 1858 one created a public garden to replace the market, one again moved the fountain of a few meters to establish it with the center of this new public garden. One added a pedestal to six basins on each face.

Description of the carved ornaments

The work of Jean Pin

On each of the three original faces, Pilastre S twinned of Corinthian Ordre frame a arcade surmounted by a attic and a triangular pediment. The Naïade S with the veiled body, in Low-relief, fit between the pilasters. Each attic is decorated with mythological scenes relating to the sources and fountains.

The work of Pajou

The fourth face, of 1788, preserves the same ordinance as the three others of origin. Pajou took for model the statue of Peace, of Pin, which one can admire with the Musée of Louvre.

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