Publication:

Moulin d'Ivry. sur la route des vents.

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    English titleIvry mill. on the road of the wind(s).
    Authors & editors

    Le Gall, Emile [Author]

    Publisher Association Des Amis Du Moulin De La Tour
    Languages

    French (main text)

    Medium Book
    Edition1
    Topics

    Wind & watermills > Other Europe (not GB) > France

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    Scope & contentSummary Translation

    A history of windmills from across Paris and the surrounding region, focussing mostly on le Moulin D’Ivry.Begins with a brief history of grinding grain and wheat. Gives information on the grinding process; the first people to grind grain crushed grains of cereal under a stone. Then the progression to a flour mill, becoming a huge industry.

    Also mentions water mills, and the production of electricity. For example the Moulin de la Galette, in Montmartre. Includes illustrations of the different processes used in grinding grain and wheat over the centuries. A section on the different types of mills- watermills- including fortified mills, and the different types of windmills. The first known examples of watermills in France appeared 500 years before Christ in Moselle tributary, in mountainous regions. Includes illustrations of structural differences found in regions of France, and one Portuguese example.

    A chapter on the history of mill workers; their daily tasks, their social status; different types of mills (water, wind etc.) and the different parts that create a mill. Includes a section “the two faces of a miller”- on the one side a miller was well respected, on the other he was doubted/ untrustworthy, especially wealthy millers.

    A chapter on the tools needed to create and work mills; the walls, roof, mechanical structures. The second chapter is about the Moulin e la Tour (Tour Mill) in Ivry-sur-Seine- gives its history, displacement, restoration projects; the mechanisms, use of energy etc. Gives details on its succession of sales- it was sold many times. Gives information on the millers that owned and worked there. Includes a document showing the sale of the mill in 1765 as well as extracts from letters from 1962 asking for the mill to be preserved. Also includes a map of the region from 1869. Includes the oldest known document that mentions the Mill. Includes photographs of the displacement of the mill. It was decided that the mill was important because it was the last of its kind so needed to be preserved. Also there were interesting structures underneath at its foundation level.

    Includes a section on visiting the mill- what to find on each floor level within the mill. Also gives information on l’association des Amis du Moulin, a group dedicated to preserving and restoring this mill. Gives information on the objectives and realisations of the project.Includes a final chapter on mills that have disappeared in Paris and the surrounding region including those along the river Seine; the mills found in the Ile-de-France: The moving/ renovation of mills across Paris including le Moulin D’Ivry from 1975. Includes maps and images of the area. Includes a section on mills and millwrights/ workers in French literature.

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    Accession no. 229305

    • Shelf location: W 11-GAL
    • Donor: Ken Major Collection