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Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city’s trademark Manneken Pis at the Grand Place (Grote Markt).It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 and endowed with its own instant legend the better to amuse strollers. This half-metre-high statue of blue-grey limestone depicts a little girl with her hair in short pigtails squatting and urinating apparently very contentedly.
