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[fre] Résumé En 1780, Paris la seconde ville des Lumières avec ses 700 000 habitants, se vide chaque jour d'environ 750 mètres cubes de boue ; soit annuellement 270 000 mètres cubes. L'évacuation quotidienne de ces boues est la première priorité concernant la salubrité de la capitale. Les tombereaux sont remplis en majeure partie des boues du pavé et d'une petite quantité d'ordures domestiques. Ces dernières sont en effet brûlées dans la cheminée, et le restant est souvent récupéré par les chiffonniers avant d'être enlevé dans les tombereaux. En 1775, la quantité annuelle de matières extraite des fosses d'aisances parisiennes n'excède pas 27 000 mètres cubes. Boues et déjections sont déposés dans des voiries distinctes et repoussées à la périphérie de Paris. [eng] Abstract In 1780, 700 000 inhabitants of the second city of the age of Enlightenment', Paris discharge about 750 cubic meters of muds per day ; which equivalent to 270 000 cubic meters annually. The daily evacuation of these muds is the first priority of the public hygienics in the capital. In a tipcart the greatest part of the daily refuse are street's muds, and the domestic ordures represent only a small quantity. The reason is, part of the domestic ordures is incinerated in the fireplace, and the rest is often collected by a rag-and- bone man before taken off to the tipcart. In 1775, the annual quantity of faeces extracted from the cesspools parisian do not exceed 27 000 cubic meters. Muds and faeces are put in the refuse collections respectively which are expelled gradually to the periphery of Paris.
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Pierre-Denis Boudriot, 1986.
"Essai sur l'ordure en milieu urbain à l'époque pré-industrielle. Boues, immondices et gadoue à Paris au XVIIIe siècle,"
Histoire, économie & société, Programme National Persée, vol. 5(4), pages 515-528.
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RePEc:prs:hiseco:hes_0752-5702_1986_num_5_4_2346
DOI: 10.3406/hes.1986.2346
Note: DOI:10.3406/hes.1986.2346
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