National audienceScholars usually explain the spectacular increase in the number of water supply projects in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Paris by calling attention to Paris' water problems at the time. This article sets out to interrogate the evidence for such problems, especially those concerning water quality. It aims to show that these problems were largely constructed by those involved in the projects in order to justify their specific choices (be they technical, economical or social) or in order to compete in cut-throat and controversial situations. The paper will show how the preoccupation with water quality emerged in water supply projects in the 1760s and became a central concern. It will present the various method...
This article examines the social and political factors which influenced the development of the Paris...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract. — In France, in 1984, 4.5 billions cubic metres of drinking water at a time are transporte...
National audienceScholars usually explain the spectacular increase in the number of water supply pro...
La dégradation de la qualité de l’eau de la Seine à Paris et dans sa banlieue depuis la deuxième moi...
The Seine River pollution both in Paris and its suburbs has been already the subject of several stud...
The Power of Water is an environmental history of transformations in the supply of drinking water to...
The measurement of chemical water quality, 1850-1970 During the nineteenth century, the rise of urba...
International audienceThis article focuses on the water distribution network in Paris, from the 1830...
International audienceToday, a knowledge of how consumers perceive the water that comes out of their...
International audienceToday, a knowledge of how consumers perceive the water that comes out of their...
During the nineteenth century, water had become the fundamental element in the policy of urban sanit...
Mineral waters were a delicate and unstable product whose value as a remedy increased in early moder...
Water, the Crisis and the Remedy in the Old and New Worlds (1840-1900) The scientific understandin...
This article examines the social and political factors which influenced the development of the Paris...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract. — In France, in 1984, 4.5 billions cubic metres of drinking water at a time are transporte...
National audienceScholars usually explain the spectacular increase in the number of water supply pro...
La dégradation de la qualité de l’eau de la Seine à Paris et dans sa banlieue depuis la deuxième moi...
The Seine River pollution both in Paris and its suburbs has been already the subject of several stud...
The Power of Water is an environmental history of transformations in the supply of drinking water to...
The measurement of chemical water quality, 1850-1970 During the nineteenth century, the rise of urba...
International audienceThis article focuses on the water distribution network in Paris, from the 1830...
International audienceToday, a knowledge of how consumers perceive the water that comes out of their...
International audienceToday, a knowledge of how consumers perceive the water that comes out of their...
During the nineteenth century, water had become the fundamental element in the policy of urban sanit...
Mineral waters were a delicate and unstable product whose value as a remedy increased in early moder...
Water, the Crisis and the Remedy in the Old and New Worlds (1840-1900) The scientific understandin...
This article examines the social and political factors which influenced the development of the Paris...
International audienceThe French Revolution did not bring to a close the Ancien Régime as far as the...
Abstract. — In France, in 1984, 4.5 billions cubic metres of drinking water at a time are transporte...