Le réservoir de Montsouris | The tank of Montsouris is a hidden treasure in the south of Paris.
Although, it is still kept by a few trout – who formerly attested to the water’s purity – but today, symbolically, maintain the water’s name in the age of modern technology.
With a length of 265 meters, and width of 136 meters, the surface area reaches some three hectares, and hold 202 000 m3 of water.
It was constructed in 1874, by Eugène Belgrand, an engineer of the baron Haussman. It was, at this time, the biggest tank in the world. It still supplies 1/5 of the Parisian population.
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The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Emma Lazarus
Light Path / Madaan Saleh, Saudi Arabia.
By Abdulmajeed Aljuhani.
