{"id":706,"date":"2011-01-12T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/?p=706"},"modified":"2011-01-12T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T01:26:32","slug":"saints-innocents-church-cemetery-and-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/saints-innocents-church-cemetery-and-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Innocents Church, Cemetery and Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0Fontaine des Innocents<\/strong> is a monumental public\u00a0fountain<\/a> located in the\u00a0Les Halles<\/a> district in the\u00a01st arrondissement<\/a> of\u00a0Paris<\/a>,\u00a0France<\/a>. Originally called the\u00a0Fountain of the Nymphs,<\/em> it was constructed between 1547 and 1550 by architect\u00a0Pierre Lescot<\/a> and sculptor\u00a0Jean Goujon<\/a> in the new style of the\u00a0French Renaissance<\/a>. It is the oldest monumental fountain in Paris.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/sup>The fountain was commissioned as part of the decoration of the city to commemorate the solemn\u00a0royal entry<\/a> of King\u00a0Henry II<\/a> into Paris in 1549. Artists were commissioned to construct elaborate monuments, mostly temporary, along his route, from the Port Saint-Denis to the palais de la Cit\u00e9, passing by le Ch\u00e2telet, the pont Notre-Dame and the cathedral. The fountain was placed on the site of an earlier fountain dating to the reign of\u00a0Philip II of France<\/a>, against the wall of the Cemetery of the Innocents<\/a>, at the corner of rue Saint Denis (where the King’s procession passed) and rue aux Fers (today’s rue Berger), with two facades on one street, one facade on the other. It was meant to be not only a fountain but also a grand reviewing stand for local notables; it resembled the walls of a large residence, with water taps along the street at the street level, and stairway up to the loggia on the upper level, where officials stood on the balcony to greet the King. Its original name was the Fountain of the Nymphs.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Once the procession had passed, the structure became a simple water fountain for the neighborhood, with taps, ornamented with lion heads, permanently trickling water.[3]<\/a><\/sup> The upper floor of the fountain was eventually turned into a residence, with windows and a chimney.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Fontaine des Innocents, c.1670<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1787, for sanitary reasons, the cemeteries of Paris were moved outside the city walls, and the former cemetery of the Church of the Saints-Innocents, against whose wall the fountain stood, was transformed into a market square, the March\u00e9 des Innocents. The fountain was scheduled for destruction. It was saved largely by the efforts of writer Quatremere de Quincy, who wrote a letter to the\u00a0Journal de Paris<\/em> urging the preservation of “A masterpiece of French sculpture.”[5]<\/a><\/sup> The fountain was moved to the middle of a large basin in the market, raised on a stone pedestal decorated with four lions and four basins. The sculptor\u00a0Augustin Pajou<\/a> was commissioned to create a fourth facade for the fountain, in the same style as the other three, so that it could be free-standing.<\/p>\n

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Because of the poor water supply system of Paris, the fountain produced only a small flow of water. Under\u00a0Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>, a new aqueduct was constructed from the River Ourcq, and finally the fountain gushed water, in such abundance that it threatened the sculptural decoration. The smaller bas-reliefs at the base of the fountain were removed in 1810 and placed in the\u00a0Mus\u00e9e du Louvre<\/a> in 1824.[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In 1858, during the\u00a0Second French Empire<\/a> of\u00a0Louis Napoleon<\/a>, the fountain was moved one more time to its present location on a more modest pedestal in the middle of the square; and six basins of pouring water, one above the other, were added on each facade.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n


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Marche et fontaine des Innocents<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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The market, fountain of Innocents, John James Chalon, 1822, Carnavalet<\/p><\/div>\n

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Monet,rue montorgueil, 1878<\/p><\/div>\n

excerpted from: Wikipedia contributors, \"Fontaine des Innocents,\"\u00a0Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Fontaine_des_Innocents&oldid=387377415<\/span><\/a>\n(accessed January 12, 2011).<\/span><\/pre>\n
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The\u00a0Fontaine des Innocents is a monumental public\u00a0fountain located in the\u00a0Les Halles district in the\u00a01st arrondissement of\u00a0Paris,\u00a0France. Originally called the\u00a0Fountain of the Nymphs, it was constructed between 1547 and 1550 by architect\u00a0Pierre Lescot and sculptor\u00a0Jean Goujon in the new style of the\u00a0French Renaissance. It is the oldest monumental fountain in Paris.[1] The fountain was commissioned as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-history","category-memorials","category-monuments-and-memory","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nCfs-bo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":712,"url":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/les-innocents-cemetary\/","url_meta":{"origin":706,"position":0},"title":"Les Innocents Cemetary","author":"lane","date":"12 January 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"the skeletons of decomposed cadavers went to the charniers, but their fatty residues remained in the earth. The plague of 1418 poured 50,000 dead into Les Innocents over a five-week period, and the hundred-years war brought more. The air of central Paris must have been already putrid then. via Paris-Promenades\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Art History"","block_context":{"text":"Art History","link":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/category\/art-history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}