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Tourist Spot Attractions In Bougival

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Bougival is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Bougival is located 15.3 km from the center of Paris, in its western suburbs. As the site where many of the French Masters painted country scenes along the Seine, the village today hosts a series of six historical placards, known as the Impressionists Walk, at locations from which the noted painters depicted the scenes of Bougival.Bougival is also noted as the site of the Machine de Marly, a sprawling, complicated hydraulic pumping device that began supplying the massive quantity of water required by the fountains at Palace of Versailles in the late 1...
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  • 1. Machine de Marly Bougival
    The Machine de Marly, also known as the Marly Machine or the Machine of Marly, was a large hydraulic system in Yvelines, France, built in 1684 to pump water from the river Seine and deliver it to the Palace of Versailles.King Louis XIV needed a large water supply for his fountains at Versailles. Before the Marly Machine was built, the amount of water delivered to Versailles already exceeded that used by the city of Paris, but this was insufficient, and fountain-rationing was necessary. Ironically most of the water pumped by the Marly Machine ended up being used to develop a new garden at the Château de Marly. However, even if all the water pumped at Marly had been supplied to Versailles, it still would not have been enough: the fountains running à l'ordinaire required at least four times...
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