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Moulin à papier de la Grand'Rive

Marsac-en-Livradois, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures de l'ensemble des bâtiments, y compris l'escalier à balustres sous porche du bâtiment principal (cad. B 1538) : inscription par arrêté du 5 décembre 1984
Protection dates
1984/12/05 : inscrit MH
Type
moulin à papier
Main period of construction
17e siècle, 18e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Marsac-en-Livradois
Département
Puy-de-Dôme
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.48064, 3.77599
Mérimée reference
PA00092174

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'ancien moulin à papier de la Grand'Rive, qui a été aux 17e et 18e siècles le principal établissement de la région d'Ambert (sept roues, plus de cent personnes employées) , était à la fois manoir seigneurial et manufacture. Au début du 18e siècle, c'était la manufacture de papier la plus importante de France. La forte concurrence et les appuis dont bénéficiaient les papeteries de Montargis (Langlée, Buges) diminuèrent peu à peu son importance et son prestige et, au début du 19e siècle, la mécanisation, à laquelle ses propriétaires se refusèrent, provoqua sa fermeture et sa conversion en minoterie. Elle a perdu une partie de ses éléments fonctionnels.

English translation

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The former paper mill of the Grand'Rive, which was in the 17th and 18th centuries the principal establishment of the Ambert region (seven wheels, more than one hundred persons employed), was at the same time a seigneurial manor and a manufactory. At the beginning of the 18th century, it was the most important paper manufactory in France. Strong competition and the backing which benefited the paper mills of Montargis (Langlée, Buges) gradually diminished its importance and prestige and, at the beginning of the 19th century, the mechanisation, to which its owners refused to submit, provoked its closure and its conversion into a flour mill. It has lost some of its functional elements.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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