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French ice-stores: history of natural ice.

Les glacières françaises : histoire de la glace naturelle.

Author(s) : MARTIN J.

Type of monograph: Other

Summary

Ice-stores were commonly used in France from Antiquity to the 19th century, in order to keep ice that was produced in winter. This book retraces the history of ice-stores, how they were built and how they developed. Extract from the table of contents: uses of natural ice, sources of natural ice, distribution and marketing of natural ice, ice-stores, operation of ice-stores, ice-store identification, how some ice-stores are still used today, protection and preservation of ice-stores, examples of ice-stores, list by department and community of existing ice-stores.

Details

  • Original title: Les glacières françaises : histoire de la glace naturelle.
  • Record ID : 1997-3717
  • Languages: French
  • Publication: Errance - France/France
  • Publication date: 1997
  • Source: Source: 64 p. (24 x 22); fig.; phot.; append.; FRF 120.00.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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