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Extract from the Montbard Travel Guides:
The area around
MONTBARD
offers some insights into Burgundy's early industrial heritage. Blessed with iron-ore deposits, extensive forest for charcoal burning and water for hydraulic power, this part of the country became the cradle of the French industrial revolution during the eighteenth century
. The earliest foundries were small-scale rural affairs, dependent on one man's knowledge, with minimal and costly production, despite the invention of the blast furnace (
haut fourneau
) and the use of water power to drive hammers and bellows.
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