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Lamanon Fountain
The inscription on it tells us fountain was erected in 1859. The mayor at the time, Fidele Reynaud, ordered its construction in honour of Robert de Lamanon, an eighteenth-century naturalist who participated in the expeditionary voyages of La Perouse and died on the island of Maouna. It is a small fountain with four facades, three of them are decorated, mostly with vegetables: wheat, vines, flowers and fruit. The fourth side has a female mask which is where the water comes out. There's also a decorative metal font. The fountain was restored in 1988 and again in 2006, when the whole of Corso Victor
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