Abstract

A recurring motif in the urban literature that was formed around Haussmannian Paris, the Seine with its waters, its banks, the railway activities that cross it, builds its own myth around an artistic and poetic destiny. Devalued by the writers and poets of the 19th century, it experienced its golden age at the turn of the century thanks to the enthusiasm shown by the Impressionists for aquatic and river landscapes. We have to wait for the Belle Epoque and its euphoria, the fresh look of a foreign diaspora, as well as a poetic revolution that decentralizes the subject and focuses on the spaces where it evolves, to rehabilitate the Seine and make it a modern myth.

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