Fontaine du Puits de Grenelle

The Fontaine du Puits de Grenelle stands as a tall, ornate cast-iron column topped by a golden star, marking the exact spot where engineers drilled a deep well in eighteen forty-one. They bored nearly eighteen hundred feet into the earth searching for fresh water for the growing city. When they finally struck the aquifer, the water shot out with such immense pressure that it flooded the neighborhood streets for days. It quenched the thirst of the district until the infrastructure eventually moved on.