Editing Manneken Pis (section)

===In Belgium===
[[File:MannekenpisGeraardsbergen.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Geraardsbergen]]'s ''Manneken Pis'' competes with that of Brussels as the oldest.]]

Although Brussels' ''Manneken Pis'' is the best known, others exist all across the country. As early as the 17th century, the statue was the subject of decorative replicas. The [[Brussels City Museum]] exhibits a copy which was crafted by Jacques Van den Broeck in 1630, probably from a cast of Duquesnoy's statue. Another local copy, from 1636, in a private American collection, is attributed to the German founder Daniel Haneman.{{sfn|Patigny|2019|p=93–94}} Similar statues can also be found in the Flemish cities of [[Koksijde]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=NWS|first=VRT|date=2020-12-23|title=Manneken Pis van Koksijde gestolen: "Niet zo waardevol in geld, maar grote emotionele betekenis"|url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2020/12/23/manneke-pis-van-koksijde-gestolen-het-is-misschien-niet-zo-wa/|access-date=2021-08-15|website=vrtnws.be|language=nl}}</ref> [[Hasselt]], [[Ghent]], and [[Bruges]], as well as in the Walloon municipality of [[Braine-l'Alleud]] (where it is called ''El Gamin qui piche'', meaning "The Peeing Kid" in [[Walloon (language)|Walloon]]).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Braine l'Alleud - El Gamin qui piche|url=https://lemuseedeleauetdelafontaine.be/listing/braine-lalleud-el-gamin-qui-piche/|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Musée de l'Eau et de la Fontaine|language=fr-FR}}</ref>

====Feud with Geraardsbergen====
There is an ongoing dispute over which ''Manneken Pis'' is the oldest; the one in Brussels or the one in [[Geraardsbergen]].{{sfn|De Vries|2003|p=51–54}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_et-si-le-manneken-pis-de-bruxelles-n-etait-pas-unique?id=5404293|title=Et si le Manneken Pis de Bruxelles n'était pas unique?|date=2009-06-16|work=RTBF Info|access-date=2017-09-29|language=fr-FR}}</ref> According to tradition, Geraardsbergen was in a rebuilding phase after the devastating passage of [[Jean II de Croÿ]]'s troops in the spring of 1452, during a war opposing the city of [[Ghent]] and the Burgundian duke [[Philip the Good]]. On that occasion, the spout from one of the city's fountains, in the shape of a copper lion's head, was taken by the people of Ghent. The aldermen of Geraardsbergen thus had their own ''Manneken Pis'' made in 1459 to replace it.<ref>{{Cite web|last=NWS|first=VRT|date=2009-06-14|title=Geraardsbergen viert zijn Manneken Pis|url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2009/06/14/geraardsbergen_viertzijnmannekenpis-1-544651/|access-date=2021-08-15|website=vrtnws.be|language=nl}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Manneken Pis|url=https://www.visitgeraardsbergen.be/manneken-pis|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Visit Geraardsbergen|language=nl-be}}</ref> The statue was cast in [[brass]] by Reinier Van Tienen, based on a model designed by Gillis Vander Jeught.

It can be assumed that the first version of Brussels' ''Manneken Pis'', dating from before 1451, served as inspiration to Geraardsbergen's statue. Looking at the ages of the statues, both of them are replicas; the one in Brussels dating from 1965 and the one in Geraardsbergen from 1985. The design of Geraarsbergen's original statue, however, which dates from 1459, antedates that of Duquesnoy's statue, from 1619. It is on this basis that Geraardsbergen asserts that its ''Manneken Pis'' is the oldest,<ref name=":3" /> but since there was probably already a ''Manneken Pis'' in 1452 in Brussels, the tradition might be slightly older there.{{sfn|Deligne|2008|p=77–96}}