Facing the Modern Demon: Resistance to Industrial Pollution in Northern France, 1810 – 1870s

Name: Frente al «demonio moderno»: las resistencias a las contaminaciones industriales en el norte de Francia, 1810 - años 1870
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Archives départementales du Nord

At what price do northern chimneys smoke? This department was early industrialized. A source of pride, but this reality has a downside: the multiplication of sources of pollution.

Sábado 17 septiembre 2022, 15:00Passed

Archives départementales du Nord,9 Fi 2678 - Papier à en-tête représentant la filature de Dautremer, 1857

Facing the Modern Demon: Resistance to Industrial Pollution in Northern France, 1810 – 1870s

A conference by Samy Bounoua, History Fellow, PhD student in environmental history, University of Lille, IRHiS
The North of France was early industrialized. A source of pride in regional history and memory, this reality has nevertheless had its downside: the multiplication of sources of pollution.
Far from being a secondary and negligible consequence of the race to prosperity, pollution is from the first industrialization considered as a «modern demon»: certainly, there is work and the North radiates, but at what price do the chimneys smoke?

Saturday, September 17, from 3pm to 4pm
Free entrance and without reservation
All information on the website: https://archivesdepartementales.lenord.fr/

About the location

Archives départementales du Nord

22 rue Saint-Bernard - 59000 Lille

Nord
Hauts-de-France

The departmental archives of the North, created in 1796, and attached to the General Council of the North in 1986, collect, keep(preserve), list(classify) and announce to the public all the archives of public agencies existing or having existed on the Northern Territory, since they are of an interest for the justification of the rights of each and as source(spring) of historic research(search). These public archives are supplemented by coming private archives to enrich bottoms.