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    The Jet d'Eau (French pronunciation: [ʒɛ do], Water-Jet) is a large fountain in Geneva, Switzerland and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being...
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    allowed fountains to recycle water and to force it high into the air. The Jet d'Eau in Lake Geneva, built in 1951, shoots water 140 metres (460 ft) in the...
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    The design of the jet is based on the Jet d'Eau in Geneva, Switzerland as a result of high-level diplomatic negotiations. The water jet operates daily from...
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  • rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau, Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.  Your soul is a chosen landscape...
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    Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d'eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, University of Geneva, Victoria Hall. Archeological...
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    modeled on Rockefeller Center, would have had towers of up to 80 stories. A Jet d'Eau–like fountain sponsored by George T. Delacorte Jr. stood nearby on Roosevelt...
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    Cathedral Front entrance of the Cathedral at night John Calvin's chair Jet d'Eau from the north tower of the Cathedral Ceiling of the Maccabees Chapel...
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    which was located beside the BFM and which was the precursor to Geneva's Jet d'Eau (fountain). By 1880 it had become clear that the existing hydraulic structure...
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    Works by Ambroise Paré at Open Library Statue of Ambroise Paré, Place du Jet d'eau in Laval, France Page through a virtual copy of Paré's Oeuvres Stephen...
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    from the Miroir d'Eau by a causeway that featured twenty-four water jets. In 1684, the island was removed and the total number of water jets in the bosquet...
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