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  Worldvisitguide > Places > The Versailles Park... > French Sculpture > Bassin de Latone
Bassin de Latone
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The Versailles Park and Gardens
French Sculpture

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Fontaines et bassins

Periode : between 1668 and 1670
Relationship with : Latone
Area related : Versailles

Located on the east-west axis just west and below the Parterre d'Eau, is the Bassin de Latone. Designed by André Le Nôtre, sculpted by Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy, and constructed between 1668-1670, the fountain depicted an episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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Latona and her children, Apollo and Diana, being tormented with mud slung by Lycian peasants, who refused to let her and her children drink from their pond, appealed to Zeus who responded by turning the Lycians into frogs. This episode from mythology was chosen as an allegory to the revolts of the Fronde, which occurred during the minority of Louis XIV. The link between Ovid's story and this episode from French history is emphasized by the reference to “mud slinging” in a political context. The revolts of the Fronde - the word fronde also means slingshot - have been regarded as the origin of the use of the term “mud slinging” in a political context (Berger, 1992; Marie, 1968, 1972, 1976; Nolhac, 1901; Thompson, 2006; Verlet, 1961, 1985; Weber, 1981).
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