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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Saturday, October 14th, 2017
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Fontaine de Mars

Fontaine de Mars by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
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The Fontaine de Mars is a large fountain that was installed around 1806 – 1808 on rue Saint-Dominique in the 7th arrondissement. On the eastern and western flanks of the fountain are vases, both of which depict the same fetching goddess. The features of her pulchritudinous fanny are clearly visible to fortunate passersby who happen to glance up.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Friday, September 15th, 2017
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Death of a Lion by Edmond Desca
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This sculptural group, called Death of a Lion by Edmond Desca, stands in the Parc Montsouris. It depicts three men straining to carry a dead lion, one of which flexes a remarkable set of gluteus maximus muscles.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
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Le Miroir d'Eau in the Square Jean-Perrin

Miroir d’Eau in the Square jean-Perrin
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Around the corner from the Champs-Elysées Clémenceau metro station, in the Square Jean-Perrin, stands a large oval fountain designed by sculptor François-Raoul Larche in 1910. Named Miroir d’eau, la Seine et ses affluents, it displays three allegorical groups that represent the tributaries of the Seine. Each group consists of a woman, each accompanied by two children, all evoking nine tributaries: L’Aube, Le Loing, L’Essonne, L’Yonne, L’Armançon, La Cure, L’Oise, La Marne, and Le Petit Morin.

The sculpted marble figures are shown admiring their own reflections in the water, and, at the same time, revealing their magnificent naked buttocks to real-life humans passing by.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
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Tom Taking Photo of Fesses in the Former Delorme Passage

Tom Taking Photograph of Fesses in the Former Delorme Passage
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

Most of the covered passages of Paris were built in the first half of the 19th century. Essentially, they were shopping malls that led from one street to another.

Built in 1808, the Delorme passage linked rue de Rivoli at number 188 with rue Saint-Honore at number 177. It was destroyed in 1896, but several bas-relief sculptures that decorated the passage have been preserved. They can be viewed at the entrance of the apartment building at 177, rue Saint-Honoré.

All of the sculptures are of women. One bares here lovely fesses, with her tunic slipping demurely below the level of the fanny.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
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Tom Shooting Sculpture on Sorbonne

Tom Shooting Sculpture on Sorbonne

Imagine the joy of walking down a street in Paris, glancing up, and then spotting – high above – a beautiful sculpted fanny protruding over the base of a pediment. This is what the City of Light is all about!

This month’s bountiful booty is part of a group entitled Les Sciences by Antonin Mercié. Sculpted in the late 19th-century, it is displayed on the façade of the Sorbonne University on rue des Ecoles. Science doesn’t get any better than this!

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
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Tom Photographing Le Chasseur d'Ours

Tom Photographing Le Chasseur d’Ours
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

This month’s sculpted fanny was realized in 1893 by Emannuel Frémiet. It is affixed to the façade of the Musée de Paléontologie, rue Buffon.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
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Tom Photographing La Femme à la Harpe

Tom Photographing La Femme à la harpe
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

This month’s bodacious bronze bottom belongs to a bas-relief sculpture located in the Pompidou Center. Follow the link below for a close-up view!

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
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Tom Photographing Archer

Tom Photographing Archer in the Jardin des Plantes
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

This month’s bronze fanny belongs to the sculpture of an archer that sits in a grove located in the Jardin des Plantes. Follow the link below for a close-up view!

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
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Tom Taking a Photograph of the Pediment of Crédit Lyonnais Bank

Tom Taking a Photograph of the Pediment of Crédit Lyonnais Bank
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

We found this month’s featured fanny on a pediment high above boulevard des Italiens in the 2nd arrondissement. The allegorical figure to whom these fesses belong is part of a group sculpted by Camille Lefèvre in 1880-1883.

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The Eternal Quest for Beautiful Fesses – Our Fesses of the Month

Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
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Tom Photographing the Landowski Fountain at Place de la Porte de Saint-Cloud

Tom Photographing the Landowski Fountain at Place de la Porte de Saint-Cloud
Photograph by www.DiscoverParis.net

To photograph this month’s featured fanny, we traveled out to Place de la Porte de Saint-Cloud in the farthest reaches of the 16th arrondissement. Two monumental fountains stand there, both the work of Paul Landowski. An artist of prodigious output, his sculptures can be found throughout Paris.

The fountains, entitled Les Sources de la Seine, stand 10 meters tall. They once gushed water from the top, creating a marvelous effect.

The position of one of the female figures, with her back demurely turned to us, gives us the opportunity to admire her dainty fesses. Follow the link below for a close-up view!

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