International audienceStone quarries are a fundamental feature of cities, firstly because they provided them with building materials, secondly, because they represent a step of the city growth, marking the limit of the inhabited area when quarried, thirdly because they are a challenge to urban planning when disused. Issue of the disused quarries should be an argument for urban citizens to understand their environment: the history of the city growth, the heritage linked to the quarries (building stones, quarry tools and technics), especially in cities like Paris or Nantes where the perception of the landscape is so much dominated by the omnipresence of a river (Seine, Loire), that the relief itself is not taken into account. Nevertheless, kn...