There once existed immense underground ice houses beneath Paris.
What remains today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long before the refrigerator, the capital stored its ice in a secret network of wells and underground warehouses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As early as the reign of Henry III<\/strong>, people cooled their drinks with snow, but only the privileged had access to it. The hamlet of La Glaci\u00e8re<\/strong>, near the Bi\u00e8vre river, harvested ice in its ponds during winter. A simple system, yet incredibly effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There once existed immense underground ice houses beneath Paris.What remains today? Long before the refrigerator, the capital stored its ice in a secret network of wells and underground warehouses. As early as the reign of Henry III, people cooled their drinks with snow, but only the privileged had access to it.In 1668, the first ice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
In 1668<\/strong>, the first ice caf\u00e9s made ice popular, and the word \u201cglaci\u00e8re\u201d<\/strong> appeared as early as 1680<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stored in quarries in Montsouris<\/strong>, it was unearthed in summer, perfectly preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n