📘 Excerpt from Souvenirs de Maurice Duviquet (de Clamecy): Vendée-Armée de Réserve, la Westphalie Sous Jérome-Napoleon, 1773-1814Voici revivre, grâce à Duviquet, tout un peuple aboli. Ces flotteurs qui, sur des trains de 70 mètres de long sur 4 mètres et demi de large, ont, du milieu du xvi° siècle jusque vers la fin du XIX°, uniquement apporté le chauffage des Parisiens. On n'en voit plus guère de ces trains immenses qui, il y a cinquante ans, couvraient la Seine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.