“I often came when I was a kid. Then later I took bigger boats to go further but you see I still remained faithful, I think it's a nice way to see
Paris
”.
In the film
Le Cave se rebiffe,
Maurice Biraud thus evokes those who are called the "bateaux-mouches" to Jean Gabin.
We know it less but this
“pretty way to see Paris”
was actually born... in Lyon.
More precisely in the district of La Mouche, on the left bank of the Rhône, in the 19th century.
These shuttles, manufactured in the Lyon shipyards, were dispatched to Paris in 1867 to transport visitors to the Universal Exhibition from one point to another in the capital.
A great success.
But quickly, from the end of the century, what was still only a means of transport fell into disuse, the fault of a newcomer: the metro.
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