Seine River Steamers hospital ships during the First World War, as the ghastily wounded British soldiers could be smoothly moved downriver to larger hospital ships at Le Havre. Atlantic Salmon have naturally returned to the Seine almost a century after over fishing and pollution caused them to disappear. Seine River Steamers The Seine River was the scene of many early experiments with steam navigation. The steamship has a long ancestry, dating back at least to 1783 when the Marquis de Jouffray d'Abbans steamed his little boat, the Pyroscaphe, across the Seine. Robert Fulton even exhibited one to Napoleon's regime. With the success of
La Rochette, Seine-et-Marne La Rochette, Seine-et-Marne La Rochette is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It a small, particularly affluent community bordering the Seine river to the east and the historical Fontainebleau forest to the south which houses the world-renowned Chateau de Fontainebleau. The oldest documentation known concerning La Rochette dates back to the year 1047. The commune houses many villas along the Seine river as well as many estates and points of interest. In the centre of the village the Maison Raulin (former estate of Gustave Raulin - Architect for the City of Paris) stands