From : Time on LineParis under water
A new study of the revenge of the Seine tells the story vividly but would benefit from a wider context .
A new study of the revenge of the Seine tells the story vividly but would benefit from a wider context .
In February 1910, Paris suffered a catastrophic invasion by water. There had been floods throughout the Middle Ages, and there was a particularly dramatic one in 1658, but since then the Seine had been dredged and embanked with many more quays, bridges had been strengthened, and locks and canals had been created. The river’s various tributaries, including the Marne, which flows in at the eastern edge of Paris, were also disciplined. By the start of the twentieth century, that era of radiant modernity, filled with new inventions, which was celebrated in Paris by the Exposition Universelle of 1900, it was believed that the wonders of engineering had made excessive flooding a thing of the past.
Yet, far from protecting Paris from its traditional
Yet, far from protecting Paris from its traditional
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