Monumental drinking water reservoirs

  1. Monumental drinking water reservoirs
Résumé: It was Cardinal Mazarin, then abbot of Saint-Victor, who authorized the opening of a new gate in the ramparts (the Porte Mazarine). It was [...]
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It was Cardinal Mazarin, then abbot of Saint-Victor, who authorized the opening of a new gate in the ramparts (the Porte Mazarine). It was decided to build the first reservoir "to hold the water coming from the Candis fountain, and to carry it from the fountain to the fountain below the square".

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