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Long 4.5 km, over 2 km underground, it links the Bassin de la Villette to the Seine with a drop of twenty-five yards. Inaugurated in 1825 the Canal Saint-Martin has 9 locks and two swing bridges. It is open to shipping 363 days a year. The atmosphere of this waterway lined with chestnut and plane trees more than a century, punctuated by bridges and locks, made the Canal Saint-Martin a strong point of tourism in Paris.

Today, commercial traffic that was his uniqueness has declined dramatically, giving way to a tourist very important, especially related to transport boats to tourists but also for pleasure boats that individual can be seen moored in port the Arsenal.

Origins.

In the eighteenth century designing a river system avoiding navigational loop of the Seine navigable dificult during floods and winter which would also deliver food, water and raw materials to Paris. Channels Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin are the two branches of this network. Decided by Bonaparte in 1802, construction was completed in 1821 and 1825.

The Canal Saint-Martin, which has reigned for over a century an essential commercial traffic in Paris, has almost disappeared in 1950-1960 in favor of a 4 lane highway. The active engagement of its residents was fortunately rescued. Suddenly, the Parisians have rediscovered the channel, its nine locks, its banks planted with trees, tiny squares, bridges, metal or rotating the Venetian, its bodies of water sometimes higher than the roadway itself, making up one of the most picturesque landscapes of the capital.

http://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86000022/destine-a-devenir-une-autoroute-le-vieux-canal-des-parisiens.fr.html

A bit of history.

The construction of the Canal Saint-Martin began in 1805 by its two ends (the port of Arsenal and the Bassin de la Villette), but was not completed until 1825 because of the difficulty of insert such a work in a site already highly urbanized. The oldest parts are below the deck of the Boulevard Morland and the vaults of the Bastille.

Between 1835 and 1850, thirty industrial firms, driven from the city center by the legislation applied to unhealthy industries, are moving into the adjacent canal. Along the canal side by side while warehouses, mills, glassworks, cotton mills, furniture factories, industrial engineering, metallurgy etc. ... heavy. The canal allowed both the raw material supply and delivery of consumer goods. Dozens of barges carrying any daily kind of products, locks actuate by hand.

Today, killed by road transport, the channel sees only two or three barges per day.

Under Napoleon III, the famous Haussmann prefect wants to create Boulevard Prince Eugene (now Boulevard Voltaire), but it clashes with the presence of the canal that would require the construction of a movable bridge, something unacceptable for a great way intended to accommodate heavy traffic. The engineer Belgrand managed to solve the problem by lowering the channel between the Bastille and rue du Faubourg du Temple about five meters to to build a fixed bridge for crossing the new boulevard.

As the deepening of the channel has created a trench that eliminated all ports, the prefect Haussmann decides to complete the transaction by the coverage of the channel through an arch between the Bastille and Avenue of the Republic , creating the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. The entire operation is carried out between 1860 and 1862. In 1906, the roofing of the Canal Saint-Martin resumed. A new vault, the Temple, was built as an extension of the vault Richard-Lenoir. Thus was born the boulevard Jules Ferry.

portion remained open was rebuilt in 1890 and refurbished in 1999 and 2002. The two bridges (Grange aux Belles and God) have replaced the old wooden structures. The famous bridges date from the late nineteenth century.

http://www.linternaute.com/paris/magazine/diaporama/06/canauxrama/reportage-canauxrama.shtml

The Canal Saint-Martin has inspired many artists.
Among them, the painter Alfred Sisley (The Canal Saint-Martin, 1872, oil on canvas)

And filmmakers ...
Marcel Carne (Hotel du Nord, 1938)

Hotel on North Moviefone

or Jean-Pierre Jeunet (The Fabulous Destiny of Amelie Poulain, 2001)


Amelie - presentation


For more information:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Saint-Martin

http://www.a-paris.net/A-paris-canal-paris.htm