When Haute-Marne decorated Paris!
Made famous in Paris, the Wallace fountains were created to ensure the distribution of drinking water in Paris after the 1870 war. They were the brainchild of the wealthy British entrepreneur Richard Wallace, who donated 50 of them to Paris, and were designed by the Nantes-based sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg.
Each fountain weighs almost 600 kg of cast iron. They were originally produced in Haute-Marne by Société anonyme des hauts fourneaux du Val d'Osne, which later became GHM.
Many examples are still preserved in Paris, Nantes, Nancy and even Saint-Dizier.
La fontaine Wallace
