La Bi̬vre, Paris, Charles Marville, 1865
Entitled: "La Bi̬vre" photographed by Charles Marville, 1865. In his capacity as official photographer of Paris, Marville photographed the large-scale modernization of the city carried out under Baron Haussmann, its new boulevards, parks, markets, and street lamps, as well as the picturesque narrow streets and quaint courtyards that would soon be razed to accommodate the grand design of Emperor Napoleon III. Although we may now look back at pictures like this one with nostalgia for a lost Paris, to Marville and his audience such scenes evoked a less bucolic reality, the Bi̬vre was essentially a waste system for twenty-four tanneries, twenty-one leather factories, nine starch and three dye manufacturers, a paper mill, two cotton and two flour mills, four laundries, a soap and candle factory, and assorted other industries. Shortly after Marville made this photograph, the Bi̬vre was simply covered over and tied into the Paris sewer system.
Size: 4200px × 3183px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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