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Show lhicover Work of DaVhi ""jj The oldest canal lock in France, S built by Leonardo da-Vinci under the V reign of Francois I in the Sixteenth ro century, has Just been rediscovered !u near Vierzon. Da Vinci, who boasted that he was ffilt as great nn engineer as he was paint- sBlV er, constructed he lock because the Jug River Loire lacked sufficient water for for the boats, with their cargoes of snlt, ,0 that came up from Nantes. In the faC course of centuries the lock disap. cr0i peared and even its exact situation l9ii was forgotten, but the old foundations 0ff planned by the painter of "Mona Lisa" po have just been unearthed. |