Nantes

L'Évasion (The Escape) in Nantes, France

When the philanthropist Sir Richard Wallace funded the eponymous drinking fountains for the city of Paris in 1872, he collaborated with French sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, a native of Nantes, to bring his vision to life. The fountains, designed in the aftermath of the 1870-1871 Siege of Paris to provide clean drinking water to the city's inhabitants, soon became famous in France and abroad…