| Titre | Eau vive, eau prise. Chronique de l'eau en Creuse | |
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| Auteur | Marie-Claude Pingaud | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 93-94, 1984 L'eau | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les hommes et l'eau Imaginaire de l'eau |
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| Page | 179-196 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Water in Creuse
In the department of Creuse, a granitic land, water surges everywhere. Brooks (gânes) and rivulets stream down the «mountain», taking on the name of the particular region they water. The founts — endowed with oracular or curing powers — that served as historical landmarks since the Celtic occupation, draw but few pilgrims nowadays ; but the spring, the washing-place and the watering- place still indicate in every village the water site. And in the fields, the abandoned «fisheries», the blurred pattern of the draining- furrows, remain as traces of the age-gold irrigation network ruled by a system of alternating water-rights — l'ajournement — Since the relatively recent canalisation of spring-water for public use, the meadow lands have been turned into ponds which offer new places of sociability, palliating to some extent the feeling, among the «mountain» people, of having been dispossessed of water that belonged to them by location in their area. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1984_num_93_1_2997 |
