Place Félix-Éboué, formerly Place Daumesnil, forms a crossroads with the Avenue Daumesnil, Boulevard de Reuilly, rue de Reuilly, rue Claude-Decaen and rue Lamblardie. It has carried its present name since 1947, when the City Council decided to rename the square in honour of the colonial administrator Félix Éboué, one of the leaders of the Free French.
The centre of the square is decorated with Fontaine du Château d’eau (the Fountain of the Water Tower, or fontaine aux lions – the lions’ fountain), the work of Gabriel Davioud, originally designed for the Place de la République and moved to its present location in 1880, during the installation of the Statue of the Republic by brothers Leopold and Charles Morice.