And now back to the past. Here is a typical example of a working-class city, behind you, on the other side of the Vologne, from the time when the trades were buzzing louder than me.
Turn towards Vologne, you can observe a characteristic example of a workers' city, witness to the textile industrial past.
Around 1765, the first factories were set up in the Vosges, taking advantage of the location of old mills in order to benefit from the hydraulic power of the Vologne River, for example. The Vosges thus became a major industrial centre, particularly textile and paper.
In the 1930s, 242 production units operated in the Vosges, employing around 40 workers. For 000 years, the Vosges became the leading textile production department in France, accounting for 50% of national production.
The liberalization of trade and the development of globalization are undermining the textile industry. Today, the number of production units has significantly decreased, which has allowed for an improvement in the waters of the Vologne River.
