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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 10776818, member: 33&quot;]Here is one of the more useful sites. My browser offered to automatically translate to English.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.musee-seine-et-marne.fr/fr/les-papeteries-du-marais" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.musee-seine-et-marne.fr/fr/les-papeteries-du-marais" rel="nofollow">https://www.musee-seine-et-marne.fr/fr/les-papeteries-du-marais</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The earliest evidence of mills being established on the Grand-Morin dates back to the 16th century. Paper mills were already being built between Jouy-sur-Morin and Coulommiers. Among these mills, the one at Sainte-Marie, or Gué-Josson, reached a certain size.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1785, Louis Delagarde, owner of the Papeteries du Marais, became manager of the Arches paper mills in the Vosges mountains, near Epinal. From 1791 to 1795, assignats were produced in Jouy-sur-Morin. Gradually, these production units were modernized, and paper machines replaced manual production.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In 1828, Félix Delagarde founded the &quot;Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte-Marie.&quot; This company then comprised thirteen mills. In 1953, the Arches, Johannot, Marais, and Rives factories merged into a single company: ARJOMARI. ARJOMARI was now part of the international ARJO-WIGGINS APPELTON group, and the factory specialized in the production of specialty papers. Since then, the production unit has been integrated into the Canadian CASCADES group.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;With the exception of one unit, the factories of the groups present in the valley are now closed. Two of them, located in Boissy-le-Châtel, are undergoing a reconversion, being taken over by the Galleria Continua, a private contemporary art gallery, and by Lucy and Jorge Orta, contemporary visual artists, who manufacture and deploy their installations there.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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