Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?

The Albret in the Lot-et-Garonne department and the towns of the Aspres and the Albères in the Pyrénées-Orientales have been since 1850, with the Var and the Landes, the leading centres of production of corks for bottles. Since the 1960s, the industry in the Lot-et-Garonne has declined in the face o...

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Main Author: Véronique Moulinié
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Language:fra
Published: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 2007-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/3233
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description The Albret in the Lot-et-Garonne department and the towns of the Aspres and the Albères in the Pyrénées-Orientales have been since 1850, with the Var and the Landes, the leading centres of production of corks for bottles. Since the 1960s, the industry in the Lot-et-Garonne has declined in the face of developing competition from plastic bottle stoppers and on account of the loss of cork oak resources in North Africa. Then the local cork producers created their museum in the Lot-et-Garonne, a structure based on the heritage of cork production taking the industrial aspects of this production as its main object. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, on the other hand, things have taken a different turn. The production of corks for bottles is still active and also developing an interest in its heritage aspects. For economic and technical reasons, the Mediterranean Cork Institute, founded at the beginning of the 1990s in order to preserve the cork oak forests, has sought new commercial outlets and now emerges as a ‘heritage-producing machine’. Abandoning the workshops, its attention is now concentrated on the forest. This article sets out to analyse the reasons for this choice of heritage and the means employed to support it.
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spelling doaj-art-a80c0d9b85584747acdd258eb2a4ae412024-12-09T14:09:19ZfraMinistère de la Culture et de la CommunicationIn Situ1630-73052007-03-01810.4000/insitu.3233Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?Véronique MouliniéThe Albret in the Lot-et-Garonne department and the towns of the Aspres and the Albères in the Pyrénées-Orientales have been since 1850, with the Var and the Landes, the leading centres of production of corks for bottles. Since the 1960s, the industry in the Lot-et-Garonne has declined in the face of developing competition from plastic bottle stoppers and on account of the loss of cork oak resources in North Africa. Then the local cork producers created their museum in the Lot-et-Garonne, a structure based on the heritage of cork production taking the industrial aspects of this production as its main object. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, on the other hand, things have taken a different turn. The production of corks for bottles is still active and also developing an interest in its heritage aspects. For economic and technical reasons, the Mediterranean Cork Institute, founded at the beginning of the 1990s in order to preserve the cork oak forests, has sought new commercial outlets and now emerges as a ‘heritage-producing machine’. Abandoning the workshops, its attention is now concentrated on the forest. This article sets out to analyse the reasons for this choice of heritage and the means employed to support it.https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/3233LiègesuberaiebouchonindustrieAlpesAlbères
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Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
In Situ
Liège
suberaie
bouchon
industrie
Alpes
Albères
title Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
title_full Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
title_fullStr Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
title_full_unstemmed Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
title_short Les Pyrénées-Orientales face au liège : se tourner vers la forêt ou vers l’atelier ?
title_sort les pyrenees orientales face au liege se tourner vers la foret ou vers l atelier
topic Liège
suberaie
bouchon
industrie
Alpes
Albères
url https://journals.openedition.org/insitu/3233
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