Careers of Montmartre
The Great Careers of Montmartre, whose Gypse was exploited since the Gallo-Roman time and was transformed by the many lime kilns of the hillock, were used to make the finest plaster and most famous both for construction the mouldings: plaster of Paris or " Parisien" white;.
It was obviously used with large scales in the capital what was at the origin of this Montmartrean assertion: “There is much more Montmartre in Paris than of Paris in Montmartre! ”
Georges Vat (1769 - 1833) there extracted the famous block from gypsum in which it will find the fossil of the Sarigue, an animal present in South America, and becomes thus the inventor of the Paléontologie.
They were a high place of the commune of Paris, transformed into place of execution and common graves. They were then replaced by current the Cimetière of Montmartre. They gave its name to the district: Great Careers.
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