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La fontaine d'Aligre de Cercy-la-Tour
This sandstone and bronze fountain, dating from 1844, bears the effigy of the Marquis and Marquise d'Aligre. Originally from the Chartres region, Etienne Jean Fançois Charles, Marquis d'Aligre, belonged to one of the most important houses of the ancient nobility. Born on 20 February 1770 in Paris, he had been widowed in 1793 when he remarried in 1810 to Louise Charlotte Aglaé Camus de Pont carré. The latter, born on 26 April 1776 in Paris, came from a Burgundian family. They distributed a large part of their estate to various charitable institutions in Château-Chinon, Luzy, Bourbon-Lancy and Cercy-la-Tour. It was here that they donated a 25-metre-deep well and a pump surrounded by a fountain, located in the church square, known at the time as Place Saint-Pierre, to the town's inhabitants. To thank these benefactors, on 10 May 1844, the Cercyco town council decided that Place Saint-Pierre would henceforth be known as Place d'Aligre. The bronze busts of the Marquis and the Marchioness were later affixed to the pump. A text states that, deprived of the joy of motherhood, Mme d'Aligre wanted to create a large adopted family. After her death on 27 January 1843, she was buried in the church chapel in Lèves (Eure-et-Loir). The Marquis d'Aligre, a peer of France and Commander of the Legion of Honour, died on 11 March 1847.
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