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Fontaine dite François Devosge et fontaine dite Romé-de-l'Isle

Gray, Haute-Saône, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Fontaines, adossées à l'hôtel de ville (cad. AB 251) : inscription par arrêté du 27 mars 2000
Protection dates
2000/03/27 : inscrit MH
Type
fontaine
Main period of construction
3e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1857
Architect or builder
COLARD Christophe (architecte), GRANDGIRARD Constant (sculpteur)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place Charles-de-Gaulle
Commune
Gray
Département
Haute-Saône
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
47.44562, 5.59250
Mérimée reference
PA70000040

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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "69. Haute-Saone. Vesoul (Franche-Comte)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Fontaines construites entre 1857 et 1860 selon le projet de Christophe Colard, dans le cadre de travaux d'adduction d'eau entrepris à la suite des épidémies de choléra de 1849 et 1854. Elles se composent chacune d'un bassin de plan semi-octogonal, d'un dé d'où jaillissait l'eau, orné de volutes, et couronné d'une statue en pied (François Devosge, dessinateur, à gauche ; Jean-Baptiste Romé de l'Isle, naturaliste, à droite) réalisée par Constant Grandgirard.

English translation

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Fountains built between 1857 and 1860 according to the project of Christophe Colard, as part of water-supply works undertaken following the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854. Each comprises a semi-octagonal basin, a plinth from which water sprang, decorated with volutes, and crowned with a full-length statue (François Devosge, draughtsman, on the left; Jean-Baptiste Romé de l'Isle, naturalist, on the right) executed by Constant Grandgirard.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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