The great flood of 1910 - Paris

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France is "celebrating" the centennial of the great flood of 1910, which will happen again some day. The museums along the Seine (Louvre, Orsay...) have evacuation plans for all of the artworks, and the prefecture has routes ready to evacuate all of the affected residents.

You can see a lot of the photos of the flood here.

I live in one of only 3 arrondissements of Paris which had no flooding in 1910.

[bazfaz]

Really impressive.

Polish Maria lives in Wroclaw. Her husband is a high court judge. About five years ago they had floods just like the ones you have shown in Paris. Bogdan went down to the high court, waded in and rescued masses of files of pending cases from the floods that were swamping the centre of the city.

[lagatta]

For some reason I can't open any of that. I did look at a far too short fr.wikipedia article - trying to think which other arrondissements would be utterly unaffected. Perhaps logically the adjacent 19th and 20th, but the 19th also has a big canal running through it. And the 13th has the underground Bièvre...

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Since I moved to Paris, there was one year where the Seine almost got up to street level. I remember that the situation was serious enough that brick chimneys were built around the manhole covers near the river.

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Fascinating,and have only just touched on this.I scoped out the image bank of Parisian photos.Am glad you're on high ground there K.

[bjd]

When we lived in Besançon (in eastern France), along the river running through the city there were signs showing how high the waters got during notable floods. I remember that the one from 1910 was really high up.

[gusm]

Great timing, I just got a got a copy of 'Paris Underwater" by Jeffery Jackson, about the 1910 flood. Now if I can just the pile of books above read....