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Fontaine du Fellah

The Fontaine du Fellah, also known as the Egyptian Fountain, located at 52 rue de Sèvres in the of , next to the entrance of the Vaneau metro station, was built in 1806 during the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte, in the neo-Egyptian style inspired by Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.
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Photo: Siren-Com, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Fountain
  • Description: fountain in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “fontaine du Fellah”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Orsay Museum and Vaneau station.

Museum
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Musée d'Orsay is a in , , on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. is situated 1¼ km north of Fontaine du Fellah.

Metro station
Photo: Geralix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vaneau is a station on line 10 of the Paris Metro, located on the border of the and . It is named after the nearby rue Vaneau, which was in turn named after Louis Vaneau, a student who was killed during the July Revolution in 1830.

College
Photo: Celette, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies, is a public research university located in , France, that holds the status of grande école and the legal status of grand établissement. is situated 1 km northeast of Fontaine du Fellah.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montparnasse and Faubourg Saint-Germain.

Suburb
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is an area in the south of , , on the of the river , centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

Suburb
is a historic district of , France. The Faubourg has long been known as the favourite home of the French high nobility and hosts many aristocratic hôtels particuliers. It is currently part of the .

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
As with itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

Fontaine du Fellah

Latitude
48.84879° or 48° 50′ 56″ north
Longitude
2.32107° or 2° 19′ 16″ east
Open location code
8FW4R8XC+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4376593595
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­fountain
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q3076272
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In Other Languages

From Czech to Turkish—“Fontaine du Fellah” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Feláhova fontána”
  • Dutch: “fontaine du Fellah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تمثال فونتين دو فلاه”
  • French: “fontaine du Fellah”
  • French: “Fontaine du Fellah”
  • French: “fontaine Egyptienne”
  • German: “Fontaine du Fellah”
  • Italian: “Fontaine du Fellah”
  • Italian: “fontaine Egyptienne”
  • Turkish: “fontaine du Fellah”
  • Turkish: “Fontaine du Fellah”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Galerie Sevrien and Vaneau - Sèvres.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fontaine du Fellah”. Photo: Siren-Com, CC BY-SA 3.0.