This hydroelectric dam is located in the French commune of Bollène in the Vaucluse department of southeastern France.
Between 1881-82 La Thangue spent some time painting on the coast of Brittany (one of his works from this period is "The Boat-builder's Yard"), then in Donzère in the Rhone valley (1883).
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The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).