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Towpath Horses: When Draught Horses Pulled the Barges
Before the engine, before steam, barges advanced by the sheer strength of horses. Along canals and rivers, teams of draught horses hauled entire convoys from the bank. This trade, known as halage (towpath haulage), shaped France’s waterways for centuries before vanishing almost imperceptibly in the mid-twentieth century. Today, little remains but the name: the chemin […]
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