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Pêches locales, côtières ou lointaines : le poisson au menu des Parisiens du grand Louvre, du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle

Jean DESSE & Nathalie DESSE-BERSET

fr Anthropozoologica 16 - Pages 119-126

Published on 01 October 1992

 This article is a part of the thematic issue Animals and their products in trade and exchange. Proceedings of the 3rd international meeting of HASRI, Oxford, 8-11 November 1990

Local, coastal or high sea fisheries: fish in the diet of Parisians of the Grand Louvre, from 14th to 18th centuries

The inhabitants of the Louvre were great consumers of fish: this is testified by recent excavations, which have yielded a very large number of fish remains from well-dated deposits. Using both the bone data and that from written sources, it is possible to demonstrate the role of fish in the diet of the inhabitants of a Parisian district from the fourteenth to eighteenth century. This study reveals that throughout this period, sea fish consumption was much greater than that of fresh-water fish. The abundance of fish bone s, and the excellent state of their preservation, have enabled the establishment of a wide faunal spectrum for both marine and fresh water species. Fresh, dry or salt fish seem to have been consumed ail the year round.


Keywords:

Fish, Diet, Fishery, Middle Ages, Paris.

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DESSE J. & DESSE-BERSET N. 1992. — Pêches locales, côtières ou lointaines : le poisson au menu des Parisiens du grand Louvre, du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle, in GRANT A. (éd.), Les animaux et leurs produits dans le commerce et les échanges. Actes du 3ème Colloque international HASRI, Oxford, 8-11 novembre 1990. Anthropozoologica 16: 119-126.