Zouave (Pont de l'Alma)

The Zouave statue in 2004
The Zouave statue, half-submerged by floodwaters on 3 June 2016

The Zouave is an 1856 stone statue by French artist Georges Diebolt, which has been sited on the Pont de l'Alma in Paris since the 1850s. The statue is used as an informal flood marker for the level of the River Seine in Paris.