"We have to learn to live together like brothers, otherwise we will all die together like idiots."
- Martin Luther King (1929-1968) -
" Rouen train station "
The arrival of the railway in Rouen took place in May 1843, on the left bank of the Seine in the Saint-Sever district, with the commissioning of a landing stage, by the Railway company from Paris to Rouen .
The site for the new station was opened in 1913 for earthworks. The construction of the passenger building begins in June 1914. The First World War will delay the progress of the construction, which will last until 1928. The building is monumental in an Art Nouveau style, to which is added the modernism of a structure concrete. The clock tower is 37 meters high.
The new station was inaugurated in early July 1928 by the President of the Republic Gaston Doumergue . First called "Gare de l'Ouest" or "Gare de la rue Verte" (more poetic), today it is called "Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite" (practical and without poetry ...).
The station has been listed as a historic monument since January 1975. In 1985, the development of a parking lot above the tracks required a restructuring of pedestrian traffic and access to the platforms; the original galleries and walkways are modified . In 1989, the architect Louis Arretche (architect of the Jeanne d'Arc church too) renovates the old passenger building. On December 17, 1994, the metro station "gare-Rue Verte" took place.
Since September 2015, work has been carried out to allow access for people with reduced mobility , redesign the counters and install an Internet connection for the public. ...
The Church of St. Roman...... view from the station
37-metre-high clock
The Church of St. Roman... The "Rue Verte" (Green street) station adapts perfectly to the tastes of the day....
"Years 20-30's style"
"Austerity of train stations is like a travel ban!" -Madeleine Ferron / The Scarlet Baron-
"Perhaps happiness is only in the stations?" -Georges Perec / What small chrome-handled bike at the back of the yard?-
" The Joan of Arc street "
It began to be pierced in 1860 and was inaugurated in 1862 under the name of "rue de l'Impératrice". Its piercing will lead to the demolition of churches including that of Saint-André-aux-Fèvres , whose bell tower called Tour Saint-André - has been preserved. All of these churches were Gothic in style.
The southern part of the street was destroyed during the bombings of the Second World War .
Click on the postcard to see others, old ones too
The tower of "Saint-André aux Fèvres"
"If Joan of Arc had had diabetes, all Rouen would have smelled like caramel." -José Artur/ Actor, Animator, Artist (1927 - 2015)-
116,Joan of Arc street
22, Joan of Arc street
23-25, Joan of Arc street
52 , Joan of Arc street (at the corner of Gros-Horloge street , whose bell tower can be seen)
"Let everyone sweep in front of their door and the streets will be clean." -French proverb-
72, Joan of Arc street
"If eyes could give birth or kill, the streets would be filled with pregnant women and littered with corpses." -Paul Valery (1871/ 1945)-
The first Arts Theater was built on the location of Charettes and Grand-Pont streets. It was inaugurated in June 1776 with " The Cid" by Corneille . The theater was destroyed by fire in 1876 .
A new building was built on the plans of the architect Louis Sauvageot . It was inaugurated in 1882 in the same place as the previous one. He partially burned in the neighborhood fire when the city was taken over by the German army on June 9 , 1940 .
The performances continued during the war until its complete destruction by the American bombing on the June 10th , 1944 , during the song tour of Cécile Sorel .
The city decides then the total and final demolition of the theater and its reconstruction at the bottom of Joan of Arc street . The construction of the new theater must wait for the signing of the " war damage" agreement before studies begin.
It will be built between 1952 and 1962 . Interrupted in 1954 due to reductions in appropriations, work did not resume until 1958 .
The inauguration took place on December 11 , 1962 .
In 2012 , the Opéra of Rouen-Normandy, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the building. A call for witnesses is then launched in order to collect archives (images, films, programs, etc.).
" Corneille "
The bronze statue of Corneille has been on the forecourt of the Theater of Arts since 1962
Until the Second World War, this work was at the end of Lacroix Island , at the foot of the Corneille Bridge. It is one of the only bronze statues in the city with those of Napoleon, in Town Hall square, of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, Saint-Clément square, not to have been melted by the Nazis during the second war to recover the metal. The winch, intended to remove the work, gave way and the statue fell into the mud at the foot of the bridge. Cut to evacuate, then reassembled, the truck intended to take it without breaking it down ...
To read more details about the dangers encurred by the statue of Corneille, click here
"To well-born souls, value does not wait for the number of years." -Pierre Corneille / Le Cid-
"To anyone who knows how to love, nothing is impossible." -Pierre Cornelius / Medea-
"A true king is neither husband nor father." -Pierre Corneille / Nicomede-
"Run away from an enemy who knows your fault." -Pierre Corneille / Polyeucte-
"A property acquired without difficulty is a treasure in the air." -Pierre Corneille / The Liar-
Rouen Station Bernard Tissot Square 76000 Rouen (at the top of Jeanne d'Arc Street)
The time of the clocks
"I'm passionate about my building, as long as we don't have neighbors' parties there." -Fabrice Luchini / performance at the Antoine Theatre on January 19, 2014-
"To be successful, be tanned, live in a fancy building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in elegant restaurants (even if you only drink) and, if you borrow, borrow a lot." -Aristotle Onassis-
"What happens in a building when there's a great love story? All the neighbors want to take advantage of it. Like a ray of sunshine in a little gray lives!" -Bertrand Blier / Studio magazine (May 2005)-
"Buildings along railway tracks look bad because they don't sleep well." -Gilbert Cesbron-
" In beauty "
"Under the surface lies a huge mass of unspoken, pain and secrets. No one is really what he seems." -Glacé/Bernard Minier-
"Memories are like leaves in the wind, if you let them fly enough, they eventually land and you can discover their secret ribs"" -The seventh Templar/ Eric Giacometti-
"Remaining always faithful to an old love is sometimes the secret of a lifetime." -The yellow eyes of crocodiles/Katherine Pancol-
"Saint Patrice street "
Called “rue des Balences”, “rue de la Hoterie” then “rue de la Galère” it took the name street of the Parisians during the revolution before taking its current name at the beginning of the 19th century.
"Let the past be the past." -Homer / Iliad-
"It is not true that nothing is ever erased, The past is never quite the past." -Henry Bataille / The Dream of a Night of Love-
"At the time of death, the past is only a dream." -Étienne-François de Lantier/Ténor's travels to Greece and Asia (1798)-
"You have to know how to forget to taste the flavour of the present, the moment and the expectation, but the memory itself needs oblivion. We must forget the recent past in order to rediscover the old past." -Marc Augé / The Forms of Oblivion-
"The past is our only walk and the only place where we can escape our daily troubles, our miseries, ourselves. The present is arid and murky, the future is hidden. All the wealth, all the splendor of the world is in the past." -Anatole France / La Vie en fleur-
"The future dies before the past." -Jean Schuster / Sheep-
"The past is always present." -Maurice Maeterlinck-
"The only charm of the past is that it is the past." -Oscar Wilde-
"We only build solid on the past." -Thomas Stearns Eliot-
"Saint Patrice church"
It is a church both flamboyant gothic and renaissance. It is particularly known for its Renaissance stained glass windows. It is dedicated to Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Saint-Patrice church was classified as a historic monument in 1840.
It is served by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest who celebrates the liturgy in Latin.
The history of St. Patrice's Church by clicking on the link below.
"Slang is the Latin of the freed." -Henri Jeanson / The Arrow-
"The day of judgment will come soon, the donkeys speak Latin." -French proverb-
"If the lies were told in Latin, there would be plenty of Latinists." -Danish proverb-
"Death is so old that it is spoken in Latin." -Jean Giraudoux / Provincials-
"A fool, when he knows Latin, is never quite a fool." -Spanish proverb-
"Latin is not a funny language. Besides, it died of it." -Driss Chraïbi / A country-by-country investigation
"You first need to know Latin. Then we have to forget about it." -Montesquieu / Persian Letters-
"Latin: is only useful for reading the inscriptions of public fountains." -Gustave Flaubert / Dictionary of preconceived ideas-
"Champs Maillets street"
The old name of this street is the "Chiens" street ( street of the dogs).
Ins: "Bons-Enfants" street (street of the good kids)
Outcomes: Saint-Patrice street
"Time, through its course, uses and destroys what is temporal. So there is more eternity in the past than in the present. " -Simone Weil-
"Time wasted is the time when you are at the mercy of others. " -Boris Vian-
"For years, we say to ourselves: I have time. Then time passes and we say to ourselves: it is no longer worth it. " -Henri de Régnier-
"Learning the exact duration of time ... is also probably what learning intelligence is all about. " -Marguerite Duras-
"The time we have every day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, the passions we inspire shrink it, and habit fills it. " -Marcel Proust-
"What time wasted saving time. " -Paul Morand-
"Between spending time and living it, there is an abyss. " -Philippe Sollers-
"The passing of time is a precious friend who strips us of the superfluous. " -Christian Bobin-
"By killing time, we hurt eternity. " -Henry David Thoreau-
"At the crossroads"
At the intersection of Champs Maillets and Bons Enfants' streets
"Beautiful path is never long." -Provençal proverb-
"Follow the path of your soul." -Olivier Lockert / Hypnosis-
"There is a purpose, but no way; what we call path is hesitation." -Franz Kafka-
"It doesn't matter where the road end when only the journey matters." -David Le Breton-
"Forgiveness is not at the end of the road; it is the way." -Françoise Chandernagor / The First Wife-
"Mister Corneille for ever"
"In the happiness of others, I seek my happiness." -Pierre Corneille / Le Cid-
"You can see the evils of others from a different eye than your own." -Pierre Corneille-
