Urinal

A urinal is a WC public collective where the men can urinate upright.

As long as they were free are and fault better places, the called urinals “Tasse S” were used by the homosexual male like meeting places. The book of Roger Peyrefitte low quoted is very explicit on the question.

History

She was invented by the Roman Emperor Vespasien (9-79) in order to collect the urine (used by the dyers and launderers) as well as a tax (the first urinals were paying). Made fun for these cheeseparing economies, he would have answered that “Money has no smell” ( pecunia not olet ), sentence become a saying.

In Paris

They appear with Paris in 1834 by the will of the prefect of the Seine, the count Claude-Philibert de Rambuteau, and in 1843, one deducted 478 of them on the pavements of Paris. Scoffed by the opposition, which well quickly baptized the shelter column Rambuteau , this last launches the expression column urinal , in memory of the emperor Vespasien. The nicknames multiply.
“The Rambuteau shelters” were called pistières. Undoubtedly in its childhood he had not heard O, and that had remained to him. He thus pronounced this word incorrectly but perpetually| Marcel Proust | Time found , p. 749.
Contemporaries of Proust, of homosexual of the 16 {{E}} district used the coded term of bays , more knack that slang the cups , others, more popular, had baptized them Ginette . That of pissotière , in reference to the “hole in the wall of a ship to let run out surface water”, remained.

In 1839, the Prefect of police Gabriel Delessert authorizes the installation of the “moresques columns”, supports of posters outside and urinals inside. Under the Second Empire, Jean-Charles Alphand improves the urinal by isolating the interior of the glance by a screen and in illuminant the interior with a gas burner. The shelter is redrawn by Gabriel Davioud, which replaces masonry by a cast iron structure. These “columns urinals” are demolished in 1877, they are replaced as of 1868 by the pillar-shaped billboards.

In its novel Of the French , appeared in 1970 at Flammarion, a long chapter was devoted to these shelters by Roger Peyrefitte which, to take again one as of its own sentences, “ perhaps paid a tribute of recognition for a body other than the bladder ”. According to him, it is the shortly after the Release that the governments decided to remove these places of appointments which perverted moral country. “ the urinals closest to the barracks disappeared the first: it went there from the hello of France. One also removed with the accesses of the factories of the proletarian urinals where young apprentices lavished guilty joys with the union members. ” the threat was done more serious in 1961 when the Municipal council of Paris decided their gradual suppression because of the bad reputation of these places and the stench which emanated from it. According to Peyrefitte there was a lull: “ a league, carried out by a puritan English, and the complaints of honest pisseurs made it possible to stop the massacre . ” But it was only one respite: the end of the exemption from payment of the Parisian public toilets was voted by the Council of Paris the January 28th 1980, and the four first paying Sanisette S were built, and a concession contract of these sanisettes (registered trademark in 1980) between the Town hall of Paris and the company Decaux was signed in 1991.

All over the world…

Since the Years 1990, they were replaced in the majority of the big cities of the world by paying individual public toilets, but with Hamburg, the principle remains, in more sophisticated, and less odorous adaptation.

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External bonds

  • Arte - Emission Karambolage

  • the pillar-shaped billboard, downward of the urinal on the History by the image.

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