Place de la Pucelle-d'Orléans

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The area has long been considered the place of execution of Joan of Arc from the fact that there was installed a fountain with her image (pictured). In fact, Joan of Arc was executed at the Old Market Square, to the north of this mesta.Samy first fountain on this site belong to the III century, to the era of the Gallo-Roman Empire. Its base was found in 1994 during construction of the underground parkovki.Sleduyuschy fountain it was built in 1530, damaged by the Calvinists in 1562 and destroyed in 1754 godu.Novy fountain built in 1754-1755 years on the project of Alexander Dubois with a statue of Joan of Arc sculptor Paul-Ambroise Slodtz. The fountain was destroyed during the US bombing in 1944.