Fontaine du bassin Soufflot, Public fountain at Place Edmond Rostand, Paris, France

The fontaine du bassin Soufflot stands on Place Edmond-Rostand, facing the rue Soufflot that leads to the Panthéon. Gabriel Davioud built it in 1862 as a wide circular basin of pale grey stone blocks with a low rim. At the centre, on a stone pedestal, Gustave Crauk's green bronze group of three intertwined figures rises from the dry basin floor.

The fountain was built in 1862 under Napoleon III, with its bronze sculpture by Gustave Crauk added between 1864 and 1884. This sculptural form was also cast as a plaster model and displayed at the 1878 Universal Exhibition.

The square was laid out in 1862 on the former Place Saint-Michel when Boulevard Saint-Michel was created, and in 1924 it was renamed after Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), author of Cyrano de Bergerac. The fountain is also called the Bassin pastoral, and its bronze group of a triton and a nereid holding a shell stands where Rue Soufflot leads toward the Panthéon.

The basin sits on Place Edmond-Rostand, at the mouth of the rue Soufflot that runs straight to the Panthéon, so it works as a fixed landmark when crossing the square. The Luxembourg garden lies along the adjoining rue de Médicis. The basin floor is flat and dry, with a pipe laid across it, and the bronze group stands on a pedestal set into the stone.

A plaster version of the sculpture was displayed at the 1878 Universal Exhibition in Paris, where it drew considerable attention. A galvanoplastic model from 1876 still resides in the Valenciennes Museum of Fine Arts.