Le marais de Saint-Omer
Alain Derville
The marsh adjoining Saint-Omer is a small and very original natural region but it much threatened to-day. We have attempted to reconstitute its life aspect in the pre-industrial period (XIIIh-XVIIIth century) even before great works of XIIth century". Following this we study conquest by men, which started during carolingian was completed century when burghers established their fluvial link with Gravelines North Sea two stages, first about 1 100 for 6-ton boats, then 160 300-ton sea-ships sometimes more. During time countrypeople, monks canons, lords peasants had achieved complete hold land water marsh. By stydying archives can discover at end Middle Ages perceive various aspects more closely : marketgardening around town, meadows, peat-bogs fishing on border tne and, centre, commons belonging Saint-Omer, were real polder dried windmills.
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