Place de la Bourse foot is the first breach in the walls of the Middle Ages and is intended as a sumptuous setting for the equestrian statue that was destroyed during the French Revolution, King Louis XV of France. Inaugurated in 1749, it is the symbol of the prosperity of the city. Successively called Place Royale, Liberty Square during the Revolution, imperial place under Napoleon, then again at the Restoration Place Royale. In 1848, the fall of Louis-Philippe I, she became Place de la Bourse.
The steward Boucher wants to open the city to the river. He wants to modernize Bordeaux and provide a face of the city more welcoming to the stranger who comes through the right bank of the Garonne. It removes some of the walls that surround Bordeaux and built a Place Royale. An equestrian statue of King Louis XV is placed in the center.
During the Revolution, the statue was replaced by a tree of liberty. She takes the name "Imperial Plaza" on the occasion of the coming of Napoleon.
In 1828, under the Restoration, the city stands a modest fountain shaped pink marble column topped by a white tent and a globe, on the site of the equestrian statue disappeared during the Revolution. In 1869, it was replaced by the current "Three Graces fountain" representing Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia, the daughters of Zeus, designed by Louis Visconti and sunk by Charles Gumery and Amédée Jouandot. Dice in October 2009, and every year the same month, a campaign of awareness of screening for breast cancer used as a carrier the Three Graces of the Place de la Bourse, wrapped in pink and bathed in a rose water.
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