Heritage in Val-d'Oise: to learn all about the plasters

By Julien Ducouret published La Gazette du Val d'Oise see my news

The period of the COVID-19 was not conducive to the broadcast of the book on the plasters of Val-d'Oise over the centuries, released in the middle of the pandemic.Lounges and signing sessions, everything has been delivered.

A surprising work

The gypsum has always been present in the Paris Basin and especially in Val-d'Oise with many mounds (Châtenay, Mareil, Saint-Martin-du-Terre, Sannois, Argenteuil, Montmorency, Cormeilles-en-Parisis and inFrench Vexin).

Through 64 municipalities in the department, presented alphabetically, where the exploitation of the gypsum was important, the author traces all the compulsory procedures to open a career, prefectural surveys, regulations in the conduct of work in the galleries that the bosswas to respect, the safety instructions for workers often flouted.

Accidents occurred, sometimes fatal, the boss then tried to hide the mine engineers with the events.

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When the carrier was injured, the boss took him home until his recovery and assumed the costs.We can also follow different families succeeding themselves at the head of an farm, from the most humble manufacturer in the industrialist.

Incredible conditions

Inhuman working conditions, so much so that during a strike in 1909, the inhabitants of Argenteuil were frightened and shocked to see zombies leaving the factory.

The workers were forced to sleep on the spot, cannot afford to rent a room, to pay infected food, with the obligation to have the glass of alcohol.At the end of the day they had worked for nothing ...

A very illustrated complete study, a well -conducted search for each site operated.

Readers were surprised by this huge research and by its interest.The author will be at the Beaumont-sur-Oise book fair on November 28.

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