Napoléon 3th fountain

Napoléon 3th fountain

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Large French patinated terracotta fountain. Indoor fountain called "rafraichissoir" used in Haussmanian houses (Georges Eugène Haussmann, better known as Baron Haussmann (Paris, 27 March 1809 - Paris, 11 January 1891) to keep the "Champagne" cool.
This fountain is made in France.

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Height 66.93 in 170 cm
Width 33.46 in 85 cm
Depth 17.72 in 45 cm
Weight 176.37 lbs 80 Kg

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Georges Eugène Haussmann was born on March 27, 1809 in Paris, at no. 55 rue du Faubourg-du-Roule, in the Beaujon district. The father was Nicolas-Valentin Haussmann (1787–1876), soldier in the service of Napoleon Bonaparte, while the mother was Eve-Marie-Henriette-Caroline Dentzel, daughter of Georges Frédéric, illustrious general at the French Convention, and niece of Nicolas, administrator of the department of Seine-et-Oise He studied at the Collège Henri-IV and at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, before pursuing law studies. At the same time he followed the lessons of the city conservatory, revealing an unexpected talent. Nonetheless, Haussmann felt he was better suited for his prefectural career, which began on 21 May 1831 with his appointment as general secretary of the prefecture of Vienne à Poitiers. On 15 June 1832 he was appointed sub-prefect of Yssingeaux, while on 9 October of the same year he was appointed sub-prefect of Nérac, in Aquitaine. Subsequently he became sub-prefect of Ariège (1840) in Saint-Girons, then in Blaye in 1841, then prefect of the Var department (1849), then of the Yonne department (1850). In Nérac he immediately manifested his urban skills, creating communication networks, municipal schools, plantations of maritime pines which were the basis of the forestation of the Lot-et-Garonne department (1837). His prefectural career, which began in the province, culminated with the rise to power of Carlo Luigi Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew. From the very beginning, Bonaparte promoted several urban interventions in Paris and, after having appointed himself as Emperor of the French in 1852 under the title of Napoleon III, he immediately wanted to look for a sufficiently ambitious prefect to whom to entrust the urban development of Paris: he therefore gave the Minister of the Interior Victor de Persigny commissioned to interview the prefects of Rouen, Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux. Persigny in his Memoirs describes the meeting with Haussmann in these terms: «What struck me most was Monsieur Haussmann [...] I had in front of me one of the most extraordinary men of our time: big, strong, vigorous, energetic, and at the same time intelligent and devious, with a spirit full of resources. This bold man was not afraid to show himself for who he was. He told me all the goals he achieved during his administrative career, without forgetting anything; he could have talked for six hours straight without stopping, as he talked about his favorite topic about him, which is himself. I was not at all dissatisfied ... " It was in this way that Haussmann was appointed prefect of the Seine in 1853, a position with which he was able to support the cause of Louis Napoleon and conceive the largest city plan of Paris: we will discuss this in more detail in the paragraph The great Haussmannian urban plan. For the moment, it is enough to know that Haussmann was the architect of a unitary and total urban intervention that revolutionized the city streets with large straight arteries (the famous boulevards), destined large areas to gardens and public parks and significantly improved city construction. For these merits he was created a baron by Napoleon III, and under the Empire he was even assigned a seat in the Senate (1857). Furthermore, while he was implementing the Paris restructuring plan, Haussmann had to fight tirelessly against the criticisms leveled against him by the Legislative Body and by the citizens, agitated by the enormous tax burdens that such an urban modernization entailed. To determine the eclipse of him, in particular, was Jules Ferry, who in 1868 published a pamphlet called Comptes fantastiques d'Haussmann in which he denounced the financial chasm in which Paris had fallen in those years due to the Haussmannian reforms. Haussmann had to give in in the face of Ferry's accusations and, having retired from public life in 1870, he worked in the last years of his life at the Mémoires, a work of an autobiographical nature. He died on 11 January 1891 in Paris. He is buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery.


 

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