Giving ingesting water in Paris: this was the main aim the Canal de l’Ourcq, inaugurated in 1822 and whose bicentenary is celebrated this yr. But the emperor who preferred this relationship involving the Ourcq river and the capital and made a decision to construct it by decree on 19 Might 1802 (29 Floréal of the 12 months X) never noticed it concluded: Napoleon Bonaparte died a 12 months just before the completion of the performs.
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