Quand la Samaritaine était une pompe / La Voix des lieux

For 200 years, from the early 17th to the early 19th century, the Samaritaine pump towered tall against the Pont-Neuf. This video tells you its history, its operation, its architecture... and its disappearance. But why the Samaritaine? Iconography All ancient iconography is in the public domain. The files used in the videos are provided free of charge by the institutions that preserve them. They can be downloaded from their respective websites. CCØ Paris Museums / Carnavalet Museum - History of Paris CCØ Paris Museums / Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris CCØ Paris Museums / Cognacq-Jay Museum, the Taste of the 18th Century Paris, National Archives CP/N/III/Seine/631 Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries Documentation Laure BEAUMONT-MAILLET, Water in Paris, Paris, Hazan, 1991. Jocelyne VAN DEPUTTE, The Bridges of Paris, Paris, Sauret/Paris Musées, 1994.