ITR4755428: Bridge Canal sur l'Orb on the Canal du Midi. Photography 2002. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4755454: Spanchoir of Argentdouble (Silver-Double or Silver Double) on the Canal du Midi, France. Photography 2002. The epanchoir was built in 1693 by the master macon biterrois David on the orders of Vauban. A surface reservoir allows to evacuate unnecessary water from the canal during the floods of the Argentdouble. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4755509: The bust of Riquet in the archives of the Canal du Midi in Toulouse. At 60, Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century, under Louis XIV. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. Photography 2002 / Bridgeman Images
ITR4755725: Canal du Midi, France. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. / Bridgeman Images
ITR4755735: The Canal du Midi in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne (Haute Garonne), Midi-Pyrenees (Midi Pyrenees). Photograph 2004. At 60 years old, under Louis XIV, engineer Pierre Paul Riquet embarks on an extraordinary adventure, connecting the Garonne to the Mediterranean with the technical and topographical means of the 18th century. The Midi Canal will take 15 years of work to dig and feed a 240 km long artificial stream. / Bridgeman Images
LBY4748676: The theatre Le Ranelagh in the sixteenth in Paris, 5 rue des Vignes, 75016 Paris, France. Architecture of 1894. Photography 07/09/09. In 1755, Alexandre Jean Joseph Le Riche de La Poupliniere, a farmer general under the rule of Louis XV, had a theatre built in his domain of Boulainvilliers at the end of the allee of his castle. In 1815, the gardens of the property were particularly devasted by the English according to the sources required in the Historical, Topographic and Military Dictionary of 1838. Mr. Cabal, notary, sold the estate in 1826 to speculators who traced a new district called Boulainvilliers instead of the estate. Louis Mors, the famous car builder, acquired a large part of this plot, on which he had a theatre built in 1894 at the location of the Salon de Musique de la Poupliniere. / Bridgeman Images