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Fontaine Louvois

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254: 242: 230: 218: 206: 194: 29: 307:, Collection Paris et son patrimoine, organized by Béatrice de Andia, Délégué Général à l'Action artistique de la Ville de Paris. (a collection of articles on the history of Paris fountains, organized by the office of the Mayor of the City of Paris.) 253: 364: 137: 325: 129: 118: 241: 171:, represented by four statues of women who support the upper basin. The base of the statue is decorated with four 259:
Fontaine Louvois in the middle of Square Louvois in the end of May, seen from the West entrance on Lulli street
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It was restored in 1859, 1874, and 1974. It also features in Episode 1 Season 4 of
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which had been built in 1792 and demolished in 1820. The fountain was designed by
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The fountain was intended as an hommage to four great rivers of France: the
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in Square Louvois on the rue Richelieu in the Second Arrondissement of
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Square Louvois was created in 1830, on the site of the former
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Buildings and structures in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris
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Paris et ses fontaines, de la Renaissance à nos jours
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Paris et ses fontaines, pg. 288. (see bibliography.)
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Louis Visconti
Seine
Garonne
Loire
Saône
Paris
France
fountain
Paris
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Louis-Philippe
Théâtre National de la rue de la Loi
Louis Visconti
Jean-Baptiste-Jules Klagmann.
Gossip Girl
Blake Lively
Leighton Meester
Seine
Garonne
Loire
Saône
tritons
dolphins
zodiac
Statue of the Loire
Statue of the Saône
Statue of the Seine
Statue of the Garonne
One of the four tritons riding a dolphin

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