Check Out 9 Public Urinals From 19th Century Paris

In the late 19th century, Paris had plenty of grand public urinals that dotted the streets and parks. Around 1865, architectural photographer Charles Marville—who was commissioned by the city on several different occasions to document neighborhoods and infrastructure—cataloged these ornate facilities in a series of photographs. According to FlashBak, those pictures and many of Marville’s other Parisian images were shown at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair.

Gaze upon some of the many places where a Parisian man in the late 1800s could relieve himself, including some that give new meaning to the idea of peeing in the bushes:

[h/t Flashbak]

All images courtesy the State Library of Victoria via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain