The Buc Aqueduct, erected in the latter years of the 17th century, stands in the commune of Buc within Yvelines, France. Begun in 1684 and brought to completion in 1686, it was contrived to bear the waters across the valley of the Bievre as part of the grand hydraulic design that fed the fountains of Versailles. Commissioned by the Minister Louvois, the work was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and executed by soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Normandy under the vigilant direction of Thomas Gobert.

Its nineteen arcades, fashioned of millstone with ashlar quoins and bands, stride the valley with sober majesty. The channel itself extends some 580 metres, rises 24 metres above the ground, and is a narrow conduit of a little more than a metre in width and nearly two metres in depth, secured beneath heavy stone slabs. A modest house for the hydraulic officers is joined to the structure, bearing witness to the continual care such engineering works required. - AsNotedIn

Haute-Vallee de la Bievre, on the east side of the Buc Aqueduct off the Route de Jouy, is a rural hiking area in the Versailles Forest. A path leads beneath the arcades of the aqueduct while other follows the banks of the Bievre River, winding through a quiet valley of trees. - AsNotedIn