Ancien aqueduc de Pontgouin à Versailles (également sur communes de Maintenon et Berchères-Saint-Germain)

English translation

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History

The work of bringing water from the Eure to Versailles via Maintenon, carried out under Louis XIV, was partly completed. On the plateau between Chartres and Maintenon remain, over several kilometres, substantial earthworks forming an embankment to carry the canal. Under these earthworks substantial civil engineering works remain: tunnels for the passage of roads, siphons and aqueducts for the drainage of water from the valleys dammed by the earthworks. The locks and the Boizard dam, intended to receive the diverted waters, are said to be the work of Vauban.