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Fontaine Medicis - The Medici Fountain is an historical fountain designed like a grotto reminiscent of Boboli Gardens in Italy where Marie de Medici grew up. Marie had this commissioned for the Jardin du Luxembourg when her palace was constructed in the 1600s. Marie de Medici was the widow of King Henri IV and regent for King Louis XIII who was not happy living at The Louvre and wanted her own palace in Paris constructed in an Italian style that would remind her of where she grew up in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The grounds of the Luxembourg Palais as well as the Medici Fountain are open to the public these days as a public park, even though Palais Luxembourg is where lawmakers and senators of France gather to enact and review laws.

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Fontaine Medicis - The Medici Fountain is an historical fountain designed like a grotto reminiscent of Boboli Gardens in Italy where Marie de Medici grew up. Marie had this commissioned for the Jardin du Luxembourg when her palace was constructed in the 1600s. Marie de Medici was the widow of King Henri IV and regent for King Louis XIII who was not happy living at The Louvre and wanted her own palace in Paris constructed in an Italian style that would remind her of where she grew up in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The grounds of the Luxembourg Palais as well as the Medici Fountain are open to the public these days as a public park, even though Palais Luxembourg is where lawmakers and senators of France gather to enact and review laws.