It is a story that is told over the centuries. But that the XXe almost forgot: the floating, that is to say the transport of wood by the rivers, symbolized in the popular spirit by the descent of the Radeliers of the Durance. This subject, the Embrunais Denis Furestier has made a specialty of it. Almost devouring, he concedes with a smile. The Haut-Alpin is one of the contributors to a university reference work that has just been published, Timber floating in Europe where he devotes a chapter to this practice in the Alps, between Lake Geneva and the Mediterranean.
A participation made possible by the contacts made in 2017 with Anh Linh François, an archaeologist who came to Embrun for her thesis. And this publication comes six years later and “seven rereadings”, smiles Denis Furestier. “The study of floating is largely undervalued in Europe, few researchers have worked on this activity, he summarizes. We were very late, especially in France. While she was very…
2023-06-08 08:30:37
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