The Canal de Craponne, Craponne canal, is a canal in the Pélissanne commune of the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France. It was originally conceived...
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Adam de Craponne (French: [adɑ̃ də kʁapɔn]; 1526–1576) was a French engineer. He built the eponymous Canal de Craponne to irrigate the Désert de la Crau...
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gateways, the Porte de l'Horloge and the Porte du Bourg Neuf. In 1559 the engineer Adam de Craponne opened the Canal de Craponne to bring fresh water...
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the Canal de Craponne across the fetid swamps south east of the city. In 1554 Adam de Craponne began an irrigation project, building the Canal de Craponne...
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scientist and pioneer of ballooning Adam de Craponne (1526–1576), engineer who implemented the Canal de Craponne in 1559 Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), anatomist...
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especially in summertime. In the 16th century, Adam de Craponne proposed the idea of creating a canal to supply water for the region of Aix and Marseille...
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Nostradamus (redirect from Michel de Nostradame)
share in a huge canal project, organised by Adam de Craponne, to create the Canal de Craponne to irrigate the largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the...
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Rivers in France Canal de Craponne Sort Name A The first key word of the title. Voies Navigables France Itinéraires Fluviaux. Editions De L'Ecluse. 2009...
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was inspired by the French engineer Adam de Craponne who had implemented the same system for the Craponne Canal. For this, he planned to recover the mountain...
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drawbridges across the canal. List of canals in France Canal de Craponne Fluviacarte, Canal d'Arles à Fos Lucien Rimeur, "Notes sur le Canal d'Arles à Bouc"...
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Seuil de Naurouze. He was inspired by Adam de Craponne's theories, which had been used earlier by Hugues Cosnier to construct the Briare Canal. From 1667...
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Montceau-les-Mines. The canal was first suggested during the 16th century, under King Francis I and a detailed plan was prepared by Adam de Craponne in the time of...
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Roquefavour Aqueduct (redirect from Aqueduc de Roquefavour)
Ventabren. The idea of the aqueduct was first envisaged by Adam de Craponne, an engineer from Salon de Provence, in 1565. After the drought of 1834 and the subsequent...
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covered by the AOC label. The first irrigation canal in the Crau was built in the 16th century by Adam de Craponne. Water from the Durance was thus drawn off...
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Durance (category Rivers of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
known irrigation canal is the Canal Saint-Julien [fr], dug in 1171 by the Marquis de Forbin. It was followed by the Adam de Craponne canal, 50 kilometres...
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Alain Delon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
suburb of Paris in the department of Seine (now Hauts-de-Seine). Son of François Fabien Delon (Craponne-sur-Arzon, 12 March 1904 – 1977), a projectionist...
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The 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds made up the qualifying competition to decide which teams took part in the main competition from round 7...
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1968, INSEE Sources "Canal de Givors". Structurae. Retrieved 2013-08-25. Chaulanges, M.; Page, J. (1948). La Région de Lyon et de Saint-Etienne, sa Géographie...
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The 2020–21 Coupe de France preliminary rounds made up the qualifying competition to decide which teams took part in the main competition from round 7...
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known. Pont Saint-Bénézet (1177–1188) at Avignon, Vaucluse Pont-de-Saint-Nicolas de Campagnac (1261) at Sainte-Anastasie, Gard Roman Pont-du-Gard at...
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the Durance, also flows through the commune. The Arles branch of the Craponne Canal has irrigated the south of the commune since June 1582 which has allowed...
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