The true story of the devastating floods of 1910, when the lifeblood of Paris, the Seine, inundated the city of light and the surrounding region, cutting it off from the world. Jackson charts the course of this natural disaster and how the French handled it. Of course there are stories of looters and price gouging but Parliament, the military, the emergency services and the French people themselves came together as never before to save their city from drowning. Jackson points out that the floods served as a dress rehearsal for the first world war.
NB I’ve changed this review slightly because I mistakenly wrote that the floods didn’t last more than a week, they lasted a lot longer. Jackson has only documented this period.
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