The Montmartre Manneken Piss

A few days ago, we spoke about the fountain that was located before the war in the Square Saint-Pierre in Montmartre, and whose main ornament was a toddler imitating the gesture of the Manneken Piss in Brussels. "What happened to this pretty monument?" we asked. A reader tells us. It is in the studio of its creator, the sculptor Emile Derré, who had named it: "The Fountain of the Innocents".
After its removal from the Square Saint-Pierre, Mr. Derré would have liked to find another location for it, but the Municipal Administration vetoed it, finding the child inappropriate.
It showed the same intransigence for another group by the same sculptor: "The Trunk of the Young Mothers", representing a poor girl, fearful as a hunted animal, who clutches her child to her chest. The work was considered scandalous.
Mr. Emile Derré is the author of “Le Chapiteau des baisers” which is in Luxembourg.