La Fontaine Mousse Cours Mirabeau
Erected in 1668 designed by Jacques Fosse'
A weathered and diminutive woman in a blue flowery dress and stout, brown lace-up shoes looked up and down the road. She pulled her suitcase trolley away from a shop entrance and stopped when she was in line with the fountain. She bent over at the waist, stiff legged, so one could see the tops of her stockings, and fiddled a bit with the trolley. Guitar music twanged out of her portable speaker. Then she straightened and turned to face me gripping a microphone. She pushed her hair off her face with an awkward arthritic movement, grimaced and belted out a wail.
Cars slowed as they curved around the fountain in the centre of the road.
Some paused long enough to throw her coins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCG3gfuUh0M&list=RDcfyqQwoFPLY
I had left Helen only a few days before in the Auvergne, after the weather had changed from hot to wet and windy.
She had seemed so well, so optimistic and we played with ideas of moving to Paris.
She would have loved this chanteuse.
Fountain 26 was for you, Helen.
I'm so sad that I never got the chance to tell you.
in was designed in 1668 by Jacques
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