Duhau Isabelle. Piscines, sous la direction de Marie Gloc. No one has ever swum in the Seine in Paris since more than three centuries. The facilities, first short-lived structures, got improved and controlled by the authorities as they became permanent constructions.
Simple stakes driven in the bed of the river and supporting a stretched canvas would be replaced by facilities composed of floating landing stages around a pool. Then changing-rooms and annexes would be erected on the banks, before the pools got built into the embankments so as to make water purification easier. The fashion of swimming in river water, aroused by the renewed interest for health bath, was followed by the one of the swimming school in the late XVIIIth Century.
In sum- mertime, men and women had to have the sense of decency and so would go to separate places so as to freshen up, to keep in good fit, to do sport, to meet friends and, as for the youngest, to dare play bold games. The riverside beaches where, at last, sexual separation was no longer imposed, would prove a success with the inhabitants of the Ile-de-France, missing the seaside shores. The best equipped ones would include a hostel, a casino, a restaurant or a dance hall to draw an ever bigger clientele.
However, since the 's, in one river after another, swimming has been prohibited because of the pollution, putting an end to these swimming pools of a particular kind which, for most of them, no longer exist. Seit wenigstens drei Jahrhunderten wird in der Seine in Paris nicht mehr gebadet.
Le mois. Limites lexicales. Des bateaux-pontons Les galeries sont garnies d'un tapis de laine. Les bains Deligny sont le prototype du genre Archives photographiques.
