Fontaine de Fontjoyeuse - Peypin d'Aigues, Paca, France
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YvesProvence
N 43° 46.570 E 005° 32.854
31T E 705018 N 4850167
La fontaine de jouvence de Fontjoyeuse
Waymark Code: WMWBQ9
Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Date Posted: 08/09/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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FR Le hameau de Fontjoyeuse (aussi écrit Font-Joyeuse) est connu dans les environs pour sa fontaine. Des marseillais y viendraient souvent remplir des bidons d'eau pour ses vertus. Je n'ai eu l'occasion de discuter qu'une fois avec un habitant du hameau. Âgé de 80 ans, 6 eme d'une fratrie de 6 enfants, il avait toujours ses frères et sœurs et sa maman. Cela semble confirmer que quelque chose dans le hameau permet d'atteindre une certaine longévité.

Dans sa construction, la fontaine est assez simple : un mur d'où sortent les deux canons vers un bac avec les traditionnelles barres pour poser un sceau, un bidon, ...

Juste à coté, on note un lavoir.
EN The hamlet of Fontjoyeuse (also written Font-Joyeuse) is known in the vicinity for its fountain. Marseilles would often come to fill water cans for its virtues. I had the opportunity to discuss only once with a resident of the hamlet. Aged 80, 6th of a sibling of 6 children, he still had his brothers and sisters and his mother. This seems to confirm that something in the hamlet can achieve a certain longevity.

In its construction, the fountain is quite simple: a wall from where the two guns leave towards a tank with the traditional bars to put a seal, a can, ...

Just beside, there is a wash house.
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