"Eternity is long, especially towards the end."
- (Woody Allen / born in 1935) -
The Saint-Clément - Jardin des Plantes( Garden of Plants ) district is a district of Rouen on the left bank. It is organized in particular around the Saint-Clémen church and the Jardin des Plantes.
The increase in the population of the Saint-Clément district in the second half of the 19th century necessitated the creation of a new parish. It was on the site of the old Saint-Sever cemetery that it was built.
It is a neo-Romanesque church built in the 19th century. Cardinal Bonnechose was titular of the Saint-Clément church in Rome.
The first stone was laid on November 21, 1870 and blessed on August 13, 1872.
The Saint-Clément church is the work of the architect Barthélemy.
The church in the heart of the neighborhood
Saint-Clément square
"Here we believe in God. And it is not the priest who will stop us. He just doesn't know what it's for, God." — ---Boris Vian/The Heartbreaker-
"We all fell into a Christian pot when we were little. This applies to the most pious practitioner as well as the most rabid priest-eater." — -Rémi Brague/ French philosopher (1947)-
"Are you so strong in the art of argument?" asked the priest, "you are overriding ours!" -Jean-Paul Sartre/ Nausea-
"There is now in France in each village a lit torch, the schoolmaster, and a mouth blowing on it, the priest." -Victor Hugo-
"This is a recurring theme, I have observed in Catholic homes: the humor of the priest; priest's jokes: just thinking about it, I get the thrill." -Emmanuel Carrère / The Kingdom
"It's hard to imagine a naked priest." -Jean Anouilh / Goldfish-
"When they no longer have priests, the gods become very easy to live with." -Anatole France-
"Today, only priests want to get married." -Louise de Vilmorin-
Details of a neighborhood church
"You have to have a religion and not believe in priests; as you have to have a diet and not believe in doctors." -Voltaire-
"The first consequence of confessions is to confirm priests in their celibacy." -Georges Elgozy / The Spirit of Words or the Anti-Dyctionary-
"Don't we know that morality is for priests what hygiene is for doctors?" -Antoine de Rivarol / Second letter to Necker-
"Priests and magistrates never strip their robes off entirely." -Honored by Balzac / Maximes and thoughts-
"If mass were to be said only for angels, the priest would say it in front of empty benches." -Julien Green-
"In the confessional, when a priest insists, one thought is justified in asking whether it is for truth or for pleasure." -Maurice Chapelan-
In the aftermath of the Second World War , the district on the banks of the Seine, the "Left Bank" was rebuilt according to an urban plan adopted in 1946, which planned to bring together all the major administrations.
Shore little frequented by tourists, certain districts are not lacking in charm & have kept a "soul" of a city on a human scale where it is very pleasant to walk.