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Lavoirs
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Recordist's notes
Lavoirs were built from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. With Baron Haussmann's redesign of Paris in the 1850s, a free lavoir was established in every neighbourhood, and government grants encouraged municipalities across France to construct their own.[1] Lavoirs are more common in certain areas, such as around the Canal du Midi Captation : ZOOMH6
About the place
Carcassonne is a town of about 49,600 people in Occitanie, France. OttoAnna lists 19 field recordings from here.
Equipment mentioned: Zoom H6. A six-track recorder with interchangeable capsules and four XLR inputs.
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Sources & credits
- “138 Montferrand, 11190 Rennes-les-Bains, France - Lavoirs” by kaoss012 – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0