Fontaine Moussue ou d'Eau Chaude

Built in 1666 by the architect Jacques Fossé, the so-called "mossy" fountain is one of the three fountains of the Cours Mirabeau. It was to be decorated with a newt, replaced three years later by four children supporting a basin from which the water of the city came out. None of this can be seen today. What remains is a large, shapely, moss-covered dyke. A photo of the front of the building reveals four vague shapes that may have been Foss's children, but nothing is less certain. The scholar Emile Lèbre, to whom we owe a learned little treatise on the plants growing in the streets of Aix, has noted three different mosses of the same species; three mosses of different varieties, a filamentous alga and several species of diatoms (unicellular algae).ten years later, the thermal water that used to come from the fountain of the rue des Chaudronniers was diverted to the fountain of the courtyard, which thus became a hot water fountain. It will then receive more thermal water from the Bagniers. Not enough however to have a gushing water as the consuls wanted. The mothers had to be forbidden to come there to wash their clothes but for a long time buckets were drawn to wash the doorsteps and the stairs of the neighboring buildings. Just think: hot water in winter! Let us note that this thermal water is not drinkable. But it still makes today the particularity of this fountain which melts into the natural d&eacute of the Cours Mirabeau.

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