Le canal, au milieu: Aigle défendant sa proie

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Large channel (Grand canal), a length of 1140 m and a width of 39 m was dug under Henri IV in 1606-1609.v pond prior channel is a bronze sculpture "Eagle struggling for their prey" (Aigle défendant sa proie) Auguste Nicolas Cahen / Auguste Nicolas Cain (1866).Zapolnenie water channel in May 1609 caused the betting prisoner by Henry IV with one of the courtiers, Marshal de Bassompierre: "King argued for a thousand crowns, that after two days the channel is completely filled, but this not even happened on the eighth day. "