{"id":106343,"date":"2024-02-20T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/fontaines-wallace\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:37:04","slug":"fontaines-wallace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.levoyageanantes.fr\/en\/to-see\/the-endless-journey\/fontaines-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontaines Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2022, the agency in charge of Nantes\u2019 drinking fountains approached Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes to attract the public\u2019s attention to the availability of potable water throughout the city.<\/p>\n

While reflecting on the town\u2019s fountains, Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes quickly arrived at the most emblematic drinking fountain in all of Paris and France: the Wallace fountain.<\/p>\n

Created after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the 1871 Commune to slake the thirst of Parisians, Wallace fountains were the brainchild of British philanthropist Richard Wallace, and designed by Nantes-based sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg to be true works of art.<\/p>\n

For the summer of 2024, a collaboration was finalized with artist Cyril\u00a0Pedrosa to renovate Nantes\u2019 already-existing fountains and create 4 new ones, so that Le Voyage \u00e0 Nantes could continue to make the city a garden for one and all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div><\/section>\n\t

Richard Wallace<\/h2>

In many ways, Richard Wallace can be seen as a pioneer of philanthropy. Wallace devoted his energy and much of his fortune to Paris and its inhabitants: he set up field hospitals (for the wounded \u2013 one for French soldiers, the other for British soldiers remaining in Paris), donated money or goods (bread, coal, or wood), raised funds in favour of the wounded or poor, and crisscrossed Paris distributing food vouchers in arrondissement town halls.<\/p>\n

His first fountain was set up on Boulevard de la Villette in late July 1872.<\/p>\n\"Fontaine<\/div><\/section>\t\n\t