The square was built in the middle of the 1700s,. At some point after that, a statue of King Louis XV went up. Not too much later, the King died of smallpox. And then the revolution arrived, and the statue came down. As for Louis XVI, well, smallpox might have been an improvement for him and wife Marie. It's not easy being a King, as Mel Brooks once said.
A fountain quickly went up on the same spot as a replacement, but Bordeaux wasn't quite ready yet to call it a day (or a century yet). In 1869, the Three Graves Fountain went up in the same place.
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