Eco-Grazing the Municipal Archives in Paris
Excerpted from a New York Times article By SCOTT SAYARE
Published in April 3, 2013
Europe section
PARIS — The archivists requested a donkey, but what they got from the mayor’s office were four wary black sheep who, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipal archives building as the City of Paris’s newest, shaggiest lawn mowers…..
“Myself, I wanted a donkey,” said Agnès Masson, the director of the archives, an ultramodern 1990 edifice built of concrete and glass. Sheep, it was decided, would be more appropriate.
But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely event that an ewe should flip onto its back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to put it back on its feet.
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