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Le château d’eau de la Motte permet d’avoir de l’eau dans le village :
Les lavoirs sont des espaces avec des bassins.
Avant, on lavait le linge aux lavoirs.
Les machines à laver n’existaient pas.
C’étaient les femmes qui lavaient le linge.
On les appelait des lavandières.
A Mauguio, les lavoirs sont couverts par un toit.
Des colonnes en métal portent ce toit.
Des murs en bois ont été ajoutés plus tard,
pour protéger les lavandières du mauvais temps et du soleil.
Parfois, il y a des mauvaises odeurs à côté du lavoir, à cause :
Aujourd’hui, les lavoirs ne sont plus utilisés.
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The Washhouses
By the 18th century, Mauguio had been devastated by years of religious war and ruined by epidemics and famine. It was no more than a modest village. It was not until the 19th century with the advent of wine-growing that the village prospered again.
Mauguio was then equipped with facilities that symbolised wealth and great modernity in the image of the great cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nîmes, etc.) affected by the hygienic movement and the innovative thoughts of Baron Haussmann.
The town built a reservoir and a water tower on the 'Motte' mound. These were powered by a wind turbine and brought running water to the village fountains and washhouses, built in 1903, on the metal architectural model of the Baltard pavilion in Paris.
In 1904, the water festival was celebrated. The washhouses became a meeting place for all women and in 1905, wooden partitions were placed between the columns to protect the washerwomen from the weather. However, they were also poorly located close to the ditches, and the stagnant water of the streams and the nearby distillery emitted fetid smells.
Photo : The washhouses were a social place. They functioned until the arrival of the washing machine in the 1960s.