Wallace Fountains

by Karel Thönissen

Yesterday I wrote about Amélie of Montmartre, and by a stroke of coincidence, the Wikipedia today featured an article on its front page that links to Amélie too. In the movie, Mme Madeleine Wallace tells that she was predestinated for tears, because the proverb is 'to cry like a Madeleine' and because of the 'Fontaines Wallace'. Until I read the article in the Wikipedia, I did not know what a Wallace fontain was. According to the article there even is a Wallace Fountain on the Place des Abbesses (18-arrondissment), so I must watch the movie another time to see whether it has been filmed.