Fontaine du Trocadéro

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The Trocadéro Fountain or Warsaw Fountain is a fountain located in the Trocadéro Gardens, below the Palais de Chaillot, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The right-of-way of the Trocadéro Fountain (Pousses and Basins) forms an island delimited by four public roads: Warsaw Square (named in 1928), Albert-Ier-de-Monaco Avenue (named in 1922), Hussein-Ier-de-Jordan Avenue (named in 1999) and Gustave-V-de-Sweden Avenue (named in 1951).

In place of the present fountain was another, which appeared in the form of a waterfall and which had been erected by Gabriel Davioud for the universal exhibition of 1878, at the same time as the former palace of the Trocadéro. Auguste Rodin's bronze mascarons were integrated, seven of them were recovered and resettled at the Sceaux Park; Others were installed on the retaining wall of the terrace of the greenhouse garden of Auteuil and the plaster models of two of them are preserved at the museum of decorative arts in Paris. The fountain was surrounded by four bronze sculptures, Le Cheval à la herse by Pierre Louis Rouillard, Le Jeune...