Regarding Manneken Pis: Culture, Celebration and Conflict in Brussels (Research Monographs in French Studies)

by Author (Editor), Catherine Emerson (Author)

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  2015

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  Manneken Pis, a fountain featuring a bronze child urinating, has stood on the same Brussels street corner since at least the mid-fifteenth century. Since there is no consensus on its meaning, it has been used to express many different readings of social relations in a complex city and nation state.