page_title: Jean Beausire
section_title: The Fountains of Jean Beausire
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Beausire / The Fountains of Jean Beausire
caption_attribution_description: Fontaine Boucherat, rue de Turenne, Paris. General view
context_page_description: Jean Beausire, was an architect, engineer and fountain-maker and the chief of public works in Paris for King Louis XIV of France and King Louis XV of France between 1684 and 1740, and was the architect of all the public fountains constructed in Paris that period. Several of his fountains still exist and continue to work. Three streets in the 4th arrondissement of Paris today carry his name: Rue Jean-Beausire, Impasse Jean-Beausire, and Passage Jean-Beausire.
context_section_description: Beausire is best remembered for his fountains.  According to architectural historian Isabelle Derens, "...his fountains resembled his character. Sober structures, without unnecessary ornament; they were above all useful urban constructions, without excessive monumentality or extravagance."
  His fountains include:
  Fontaine saint-Avoye (reconstruction of existing fountain) (1682)
  Fontaine Saint-Séverin, (reconstruction) (1685)
  Fontaine de l'Echaudé Richelieu (reconstruction) (1686)
  Fontaine Saint-Victor  (moving from another location) (1686)
  Fontaine de Vendôme (1697)
  Fontaine Boucherat (1699)
  Fontaine Saint-Lazare (1699)
  Fontaine des Récollets (1700)
  The Fontaine de Paradis  (Reconstruction of earlier fountain) (1705)
  Fontaine du regard de Soubise (1706)
  Fontaine des Blancs-Manteaux (1725)
  Fontaine Sainte-Catherine (reconstruction) (1707)
  Fontaine de Louis-le-Grand (1707)
  Fontaine le regard des Annonciades (1710)
  Fontaine de Saint-Martin (1712)
  Fontaine de Montmartre (1713-1715)
  Fontaine de l'Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, (1715-1717)
  Fontaine de la Petite-Halle, (1719)
  Fontaine de de Basfroid, (1719)
  Fontaine de Charonne (1719)
  Fontaine de la Reine (reconstruction of earlier fountain) (1732)
  Fontaine Maubuée (reconstruction) (1733)
caption: Fontaine Boucherat, Rue de Turenne, (1695-1699)
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "DSC-W5", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2008:02:06 16:50:58", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "256", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 51, 48, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail Make": "SONY", "Thumbnail Model": "DSC-W5", "Thumbnail Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail DateTime": "2008:02:06 16:50:58", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "2484", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "12971", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/200", "EXIF FNumber": "16/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2008:02:06 16:50:58", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2008:02:06 16:50:58", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "8", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "107/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1536", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2048", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "2278", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal"}