Wash house Rue des Dames Gilles (Vauréal)

Wash house on Rue des Dames Gilles in Vauréal

The wash house Rue des Dames Gilles (French lavoir for wash house) in Vauréal , a hamlet in the French commune of Jouy-le-Moutier in the Val-d'Oise department in the Île-de-France region , was built in the 19th century. The wash house is on Rue des Dames Gilles and is one of four surviving wash houses in the municipality of Vauréal.

The washbasin is open and there are pent roofs on both long sides so that the laundresses were protected while they were working.

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-d'Oise. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-056-6 , p. 374.

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