"The powerful man who joins audacity to eloquence becomes a dangerous citizen when he lacks common sense"
- Euripides (480 BC / 460 BC) -
The Général-de-Gaulle square, commonly known as the Town Hall square, is a square on the right bank facing the town hall of Rouen.
The town hall settled in the spring of 1800 in the old Saint-Ouen abbey .
The building is the former dormitory of the monks or "dormitorium" of the XIII century , perpendicular to the abbey & directed by architects Rouen Defrance and the Brument .
A decree of the First Consul of 1802 obliges the city to create at its expense a place and a public garden on both sides of the town hall "firstly to receive the necessary force in the event of disturbances, secondly for the healthiness in establishing drafts. "
In 1825, the town hall was transformed under the direction of Charles Félix Maillet du Boulay , so that it architecturally fulfilled its function.
A fire station was built there in 1896 .
On September 21 , 1944 , the Town Hall square became by decree "Place du Général-de-Gaulle".
The square on its eastern part was refurbished in the 1980s by
Louis Arretche , in an elliptical pedestrian square with the representation of the signs of the zodiac and an underground car park.
also known as General de Gaulle's Square.
The front building of the City Hall
"A city ends up being a person." -Victor Hugo / Me, love, woman-
-the gardens facing the town hall-
-the town hall adjoining Saint-Ouen Abbey -
-preview of the elliptical square with a view on the town hall-
-inseparable-
"The city is bowed to time." -Paul Chemetov-
The elliptical square with a view of the city
On August 15, 1865, the equestrian statue of Napoleon 1st was inaugurated in the presence of Marshal Vaillant, Minister, Alphonse Gautier, Councilor of State & Charles Verdrel, Mayor of Rouen.
It is around this statue that most citizens' tributes are paid. It is also the meeting point - or point of fall - for political demonstrations, trade unionists ... a way to make the "revolution" under the eyes of the 'emperor...
... Napoleon from almost all angles ...
"Men are governed better by their vices than by their virtues." -Napoleon Bonaparte / Thoughts-
"The best way to keep your word is to never give it." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"You should always reserve the right to laugh the day after for your ideas of the day before." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"The word "political virtue" is a nonsense." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Love is a silliness made by two." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Imagination rules the world." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn to light up their century." -Napoleon Bonaparte / Speech-
"This is not possible; it's not French." - Napoleon Bonaparte / Letter-
"The art of governing is not to let men age in their jobs." --Napoleon Bonaparte-
My little madness: the detail!
"The city has a face, the countryside has a soul." -Jacques de Lacretelle-
That clock would be fine at my place!...
"Like a mother, a hometown can't be replaced." -Albert Memmi / The Salt Statue-
"The shape of a city changes faster, alas, than the hearts of mortals." -Charles Baudelaire-
"Normandie-Niemen 1942" -Hunting regiment that bears the coats of arms of the cities of Le Havre, Caen, Cherbourg and Rouen, whose names were attributed to the various squadrons that made up the regiment.-
The effigy of General de Gaulle -the link below is a tribute to the "Shadow Fighters" in our region-
-Memorial stele of General de Gaulle's call to resistance on 18 June 1940
"A city becomes a universe when you love only one of its inhabitants." -Lawrence Durrell-
"A city without a bell is like a blind man without his cane." -Jean Fischart-
"Let's take a walk ..."
... starting from the town hall, I go down Jean Lecanuet street to arrive at "Square Verdrel".
This haven of peace is the garden siding the Museum of Fine Arts.
Created in 1862, the Verdrel square resulted from the demolition and reconstruction of the Renelle district, a formerly highly insanitary tanning district, but above all from the transposition in Rouen of the Haussmann spirit born in Paris. Although christened Verdrel in 1926, in memory of Charles Verdrel, politician and mayor of Rouen from 1858 to 1868, we still hear people from Rouen calling it by his first name: the Solferino garden.
In English style, the paths run through the very heart of the groves, bringing the walker in front of the artificial waterfall & the lake with swans, always very elegant.
Generously planted when created, 50 trees and 3,000 shrubs, the square offers the opportunity to admire some beautiful specimens still taken, some of them from the Jardin des Plantes reserves, which are among the most beautiful trees in the city center.
I've been walking around the square since the renovation of the place started in October 2016. I can't wait to rediscover it & see the swans there again.
I'm glad I took the photos of the old "Square Verdrel" as I discovered it. Seduced, I hope that its new aspect will seduce me just as much ....
"The arms" ... I don't know anything about this work, I just called it "The Armas" ... my inspiration of the moment... don't look for any further explanation....
"Jean Revel" Paul Toutain wrote under a pseudonym at night. He was in charge of a notarial study in Rouen during the day, most Rouennais(inhabitants of Rouen) were unaware of his double personality
Museum of Fine Arts ( Musée des Beaux Arts)
Verdrel Square's artificial waterfall.
Nothing more pleasant than the sound of a waterfall when the all place is silent.
"Elegance" Swans have it !
"The city is the only living thing that can really rejuvenate." -Jacques Attali / Fraternities - A new utopia-
"Love" Swans are lovers for life with a single partner.
"Faithful"
"Let's walk ... always"
Monument to Louis Bouilhet -Jean Lecanuet street-
"Live in the country for you, instead of living in the city for others." -Medieval Latin Proverb-
Le Secq des Tournelles Museum -Jacques Veillon street-
"Before an appointment ..."
... I pass by bus in front of the Lycée Corneille, dazzled, thinking that the students are really lucky to study in such a prestigious place. Not sure that the majority of these young people think like me ... this feeling will certainly come to them with age, when they will be "finally" gone from there. When you are young, you are in a hurry, you do not always take the time to appreciate the moment. When maturity comes, you take that time that you know is precious.
Thus, the Lycée Corneille is four hundred years old (that's when I tell myself that my years of Latin in high school were not in vain). And full of events since its creation in 1593 until the Second World War.
The "Lycée" has trained an impressive number of personalities who are now known and recognized in various fields.
An obviously high school of elites.
In 1593 the cardinal archbishop of Rouen Charles de Bourbon wished to create an educational institution capable of training aristocratic and bourgeois youth in strict Catholic doctrine.
... During the 17th century, the college met with rapid success: in 1662, it had nearly 2,000 students. A first extension of the premises allows the construction of the current portal and a large chapel. Classes are taught in Latin, a language that students must speak to each other.
During the Revolution and the Empire in 1796, the College made way for the Central School, an experiment inspired by Enlightenment pedagogy and diversified courses at the expense of ancient languages. In 1803, the high school was established, which dedicated the return to tradition based on classical letters and mathematics.
With the 19th century, the discipline under uniform was very severe, to the point of causing heckling and sometimes real revolts. The training, sanctioned by the baccalaureate, is mostly classical, with a more important place for the natural sciences and languages.
The first stone of St. Louis Church was laid in 1614 by Queen Mary of Medici and has been open to worship since 1631
The high school chapel has been classified as a historical monument since March 21, 1910
Military hospital during the First World War , partly occupied by the German army during the Second , the school was bombed in September 1942 and especially on April 19 , 1944 . The war memorial inside the school, which has the names of former students who died in war or in deportation, is hosting a ceremony on November 11 .
During the Second World War , it was requisitioned by the Wehrmacht to serve as a reception center for soldiers garrisoned in and around Rouen. German inscriptions are still visible in the portico of the "Joyeuse" entrance.
"The Sainte-Marie fountain "
Inaugurated in 1879, the set, made by several sculptors, was lit with gas, then electrified in 1919. The control system was eliminated in 1977. The limestone used was of poor quality, several restorations had to be carried out over time . The Friends of the Monuments of Rouen allow in 1914 a restoration. The last restoration took place in 1983.
It is the work of architect Édouard Deperthes and sculptor Alexandre Falguière, winners of a competition in which Bartholdi participated.
Its initial cost is estimated at 282,000 French francs.
The animal sculptor Victor Peter carries out the practice of horse and ox.
Alphonse Guilloux carries out the practice of children, allegories of the waters of Robec and Aubette.
It is still one of the main reservoirs supplying the city with drinking water.
Opened on October 26, 1879 by Jules Grévy.
Louis-Ricard and Sainte-Marie streets.
The fountain and reservoir were classified as historic monuments in 1995
Pretty old images to discover by clicking on the postcard.
I only saw it from the outside, the day I passed by ... the place seems so peaceful.
Founded in 1828, the museum occupies the Sainte-Marie convent, built in the 17th century. It has the label Musée de France and has been part of the "Meeting of Rouen Normandy Metropolitan Museums" since January 1, 2016.
198, Beauvoisine street
Due to the richness and diversity of its collections, it preserves more than 500,000 objects and specimens from all over the world.
The Rouen Museum has been labelled Tourism and Handicap, motor and mental since 2009.
Closed for 10 years, and after 6 months of work focused on standards and safety, the museum has been open since February 23, 2007
I still have so much to discover, visit & admire.
To say that I am delighted would be an understatement, I am a homebody who loves to stroll in Rouen & inadvertently discover corners that I do not know, details that seduce me.
It is by taking photos that afterwards, I do research on the internet when I know little about the places & discover neighborhoods, museums that remain to be seen, that I really want to visit.
Rouen is definitely a real favorite.
It took over a year to renovate it.
If it is very pleasantly landscaped, I miss the swans even if they have been replaced by adorable ducks.
I like that Rouen preserves these pretty corners of green where it is good to walk.
"Blur"
Nature in full light...
"Reflections"
"Fountain, I won't drink your water"" ...
Japanese garden lookalike...
"Quiet"
Autumn colors
"Clear water"
At the center of the square
The peaceful inhabitants of the Verdrel square ...
"If the duck screams, it's a sign of rain" -French proverb-
"We don't reward losers, monk, . In the world we live in, there is no mercy. Ducks swallow worms, foxes kill ducks, men slaughter foxes and the devil pursues men." -The Pillars of the Earth /Ken Follett-
"No, it wasn't the Medusa raft, this boat, Let's say it at the bottom of the ports, Say' at the bottom of the ports, He sailed in a peinard on the big-pond of the ducks, and gets the Buddies first. -Boyfriends First/ Georges Brassens-
"Male ducks have at the back the bright and shimmering plumage that the musketeers have in their hats to affirm their manhood. The canes have the dull grey feather duster that the concierges have on the stairs to emphasize their femininity." -Drawer fund /Pierre Desproges-
"Threatening the brave of death is threatening the duck of the river." - Arabic proverb-
Mr. Jean Revel, the man with the double face: notary by day, author by night (1848-1925)
"We consider Jean Revel to be a writer of great race, for a deep, penetrating and subtle thinker, for an extraordinary observer and a delightful naturist poet." -J.-H. Rosny Senior
Tribute to Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
"You love your mother almost unknowingly, and you don't realize the depth of the roots of that love until the last separation." -Guy de Maupassant / Fort as death -
Monument in tribute to brothers Frédéric and Eustache Bérat.
"Beauty is a wild garden..." -Anne Rice / Lestat the Vampire-
Frédéric Bérat is the author of the song: "I'll go and see my Normandy again"
"Come to the garden, I'd like my roses to see you." -Richard Brinsley Sheridan-
"A book is like a garden that you carry in your pocket." -Gladys Taber-
" Horizontal "
Work of Alexander Calder, American sculptor.
Next to Square Verdrel and opposite the Museum of Fine Arts, "Horizontal" is monumental and could seem incongruous in this space with an old style. To me it would be like putting on a floral skirt with a plaid jacket! A mixture of styles not always very happy ... and yet, by dint of observing it, I ended up appreciating this work and its different points of view by wandering around it. It was not a favorite, far from it but, a definite interest.
And an obviousness: even if this work seems "easy", I would have been unable to create it therefore, respect.
"Horizontal" between Verdrel Square and the Museum of Fine Arts
"Horizontal" from Alexander Calder
Clash between old and contemporary
Engraved in steel ...
"Style mix"
"A point of view"
"Clarity"
"Space"
Alexandre Calder , his story in the link below
"Percière street"
I go from Saint-Lô street to Square Verdrel via Percière street and find myself in the Middle Ages.
At least, in a spirit maintained by Norman houses of the Middle Ages where the levels had not yet been invented. For that reason, the irregularity of the residences, these facades which seem to incline inexorably and which however are always standing, solidly anchored in our time to remind us of the works that our old ones left us.
"We have such a need of stories , to believe in our stories that are more real than reality. Because reality does make sense, it is not worth living if we invent it a beauty. Builders of stories tear our hearts out. "
" Espace du Palais "
L' "Espace du Palais" is a shopping complex located next to the Courthouse .
It is due to the architect Pierre Riboulet. The basement underwent a complete renovation in 1998 - 1999,it is also the date of the arrival of Fnac, following the closure of many stores.
The construction integrates the portal of the hotel of the First Presidency. This hotel, built from 1717 to 1721 by the architect Martinet, housed the town hall of Rouen from January 1791 to May 1800 and was then the hotel of learned societies. It was destroyed by bombing on August 25, 1944.
Always this contrast between modern and ancient architecture
Before the opening of the restaurants that abound on this square .
This is called "enter through the big door" ...
"Returning to the town hall square"
Not only it is a Monday but the weather is good for walking around on this April 8, 2019. Rouen is "mine"! ...
Before leaving the house, I always define a walk but once on the way, my walk becomes a wandering according to the alleys that I discover and nothing is organized anymore. And that's fine with me...
or, General de Gaulle Square.
St. Ouen Abbey in full sun.
Here the abbey but next door, the town hall installed since May 30, 1800 in the former abbey Saint-Ouen, disused since November 1790. The building is the former monks' dormitory, to the north, perpendicular to the abbey, designed by architects from Rouen
" Pretty building in April "
"True wealth is discreet." - Monique Bosco / New Medea-
"Limit poverty without limiting wealth." -Victor Hugo / Les Miserables -
"Our wealth is our memories." -François Hertel / Chimeric Worlds-
" Immutable "
"Men are governed better by their vices than by their virtues." -Napoleon Bonaparte / Thoughts -
"The best way to keep your word is to never give it." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"The word "political virtue" is a nonsense." -Napoleon Bonaparte-
"This is not possible; it's not French." - Napoleon Bonaparte / Letter -
"The art of governing is not to let men age in their jobs." - Napoléon Bonaparte -
"The gardens of the Town Hall"
Created in the early 19th century on the grounds adjoining the Saint-Ouen abbey, the gardens are made up of a mix of styles.
Place of relaxation, halfway between the urban park and the meadow, this garden is also a pedestrian crossing that connects the city center to the Saint-Nicaise and Saint-Vivien districts. (Sic)
" Portal of the Marmousets "
It was here that Joan of Arc was solemnly rehabilitated. The commemorative plaque suffered somewhat from the Norman weather ...
The portal of the Marmousets
... everything is explained here for visits ...
Walking along the abbey as you enter the gardens
Exact reproduction of the Jelling stone in Denmark, a thousand years old, donated to the City of Rouen on the occasion of the millennium of Normandy in 1911.
The reproduction of the Jelling stone.
" Sunny "
A nice corner of the countryside in the heart of the city....
"For a truly lively family where everyone thinks, loves and acts, having a garden is a sweet thing." -Marcel Proust/The Pleasures and Days (1896)-
"Who among us is not torn between the desire to cultivate our garden and the desire to jump at the throat of adventure?" -Sylvain Tesson/A Summer with Homer-
" Green "
"What could be more beautiful than a French garden? Its straight or gently curved lines, this regularity, this geometric writing of greenery and flowers, this symmetry that flatters the eye and the understanding, this dominated nature ready to hear verses and cantatas. Our gardens, sir, are Alexandrians in music!" -Jean-François Parot/The Honour of Sartine-
"We must cultivate our garden" -Voltaire /Candide (1759)-
"The last memory of my childhood is the most painful too. I'd like to forget it, to pull it out of my memory like a weed in a garden, but it's impossible." -Anne-Laure Bondoux/The Time of Miracles (2009)-
"What a strange thing that property, of which men are so envious! When I had nothing of my own, I had the forests and meadows, the sea and the sky since I bought this house and this garden, I have only this house and this garden." -Alphonse Karr/A Journey Around My Garden (1845)-
"A family is like a garden, if you don't put your feet in it it starts to grow profusely and it dies of abandonment." -Serge Joncour/Rest on Me (2016)-
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without also having to believe in the presence of fairies at the bottom of this garden?" -Richard Dawkins/To End God (2008) -
"At the moment when, quite absorbed by his sweet reverie, Raphael had forgotten his diary, Pauline seized it, raged it, made a ball of it, threw it into the garden, and the cat ran after the politics that turned as always on itself." -Honored by Balzac/The Skin of Sorrow (1831)-
"He was born at a time when computers, mobile phones and televisions did not exist. He read stories of secret garden, magician and little train." -Lane Smith/My Grandfather's Story in Green (2012)-
"It's time to go, old comrade. Leave your page barely written, close the book of the sun. What was said in the garden may outlive you." -Claude Esteban/The Day barely written (1967-1992)-
"Mythical"
The historic nucleus of the "French" garden radiates around a large round basin, the aquatic setting of a sculpture evoking the abduction of Dejanire by the Centaur Nessus. This morning, two city officials were busy around the fountain which barely wakes up from winter. If the basin needs a spring cleaning, the sculpture remains divine.
""Mr. President owns A garden with its fountain And treasures of gold and wheat; But I have more, I have a friend." -José Julian Marti/Simple verses,XLIV-
"This need to find a reason for fabulation betrays some unease on our part in the face of error and is the flip side of our own mythology of truth and science." -Paul Veyne/Did the Greeks believe their myths? Essay on the Constituent Imagination (1983)-
"Mythology leaves better memories than history! That's why we create legends rather than telling stories." -Vivek Tiwary/The Fifth Beatles. The Story of Brian Epstein (2013)-
"The poet is the one who can write an authentic mythology today without the help of posterity." -Henry David Thoreau/Seven Days on the River (2012)-
"Mythology is a dictionary of living hieroglyphics, hieroglyphics known to everyone." -Charles Baudelaire/The Romantic Art (1852)-
"Contemporary mythology favours those who, against bad fortune, know how to make a good heart. Rather the vow of poverty than the ambition of wealth." -Philippe Bouvard/Thousand and One Thoughts (2005)-
"Stagings"
"I want us to act, and to extend the offices of life as long as we can, and for death to find me planting my cabbages, but nonchalant of it, and even more of my imperfect garden." -Michel de Montaigne/Essays, I, 20, That Philosopher is learning to die-
"What, then, did this garden have to make its visitors believe that its splendour could not be entirely natural, that one had to make a pact with the supernatural world to grow such a profusion of plants?" -Kate Morton/The Garden of Secrets (2009)-
"Through the window, the garden wakes up painfully. The trees are tired, the armchairs limp on the terrace, the birds snag (that's the name of their cry, I learned yesterday). -Sebastien Joanniez/Vampires, schoolbag and poetry (2013)-
"The garden was still asleep. I surprised him, nanny. I saw him without he knew it. It's beautiful a garden that doesn't think about men yet." -Jean Anouilh/Antigone (1942)-
In the Garden of Eden, there are superb apples, juicy peaches, fluffy apricots... all fruits are suitable except pears that are for enema". -Marc Escayrol/Mots et Grumots (2003)-
Luis has a bird tongue, when he speaks to them, the chickadees answer him. He knows all the birds in the garden by name." -Elise Fontenaille/Fists on the Islands (2011)-
"My country is not a country, it is winter. My garden is not a garden it is the plain. My path is not a path it is snow. My country is not a country, it's winter." -Gilles Vigneault/Mon Pays (1964)-
"Call yourself Mr. Darcy and stand aside, looking arrogant. It's like we're called Heathcliff and we're spending our whole evening in the garden, screaming Cathy! banging your head against a tree." -Helen Fielding/The Bridget Jones Diary (1996)-
"You can't share everything, you have to set up a secret garden. As you move forward in life, you acquire this fundamental wisdom that tells you which dreams are to be shared and which are to be kept secret." -Henning Mankell/The Eye of the Leopard (2012)-
"Big" little things "..."
"The real solution was hidden at the foot of the highest of the monuments he had erected to each of his regrets." -Gilles Legardinier/Completely burnt! (2012)-
"There is rarely only one wave" -Viking Proverb-
"You will reach your destination even if you travel slowly" -Viking Proverb-
"Naked is the back of a man without a brother" -Viking Proverb-
The bust of Émile Verhaeren, a famous Belgian symbolist poet who was tragically killed by a train at Rouen station (1916)
"Dawn, shadow, evening, space and stars; What night conceals or shows between its sails, Mingles with the fervor of our exalted being. Those who live by love live by eternity." -The Afternoon Hours (1905)/ Emile Verhaeren-
"The principle of modern times is first to neglect the buildings and then to restore them. Take care of your monuments and you won't need to restore them." -John Ruskin/The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)-
"I have noticed that in all the places where there are old monuments of history, there are more old people than elsewhere: the centenarians take shelter from the old stones." -The Goncourt brothers/Journal, October 8, 1865-
"The ancient civilization, after its destruction, still contributed mightily to modern civilization through the written and figurative monuments that remained of it..." -Joseph Ernest Renan/Dialogues and philosophical fragments (1876)-
"Faulx" street
From the gardens, I see pretty Norman buildings, half-timbered and in shimmering colors on this sunny Monday. I retrace my steps and can only make one observation: I definitely like to live in Rouen. I love these simple joys, those of discovering enchanting alleys, monuments that have crossed the centuries and tell me a story, make me wander. I am always surprised by so much beauty. I can be moved by a simple house, a seemingly trivial window but nothing is neither simple nor insingnificant when you take the time to look ...
Street names generally arouse my curiosity. They are not only tributes to illustrious people, they are often the memory of the medieval past of Normandy. What a joy to read old French ! Intrigued when I read the name, I know that I will seek its origin because everything has a meaning, a story. This name is not only there to help the postman distribute his mail ...
A bit of old French :
Faulx , f. (That we should write False. Because it comes from the Latin word Falx, from which the old French swaps the letter "l "in "u", and posited that the letter "x" is only pronounced by "s", if it is not to reject in this term, because it makes the difference with Faus, when it comes from Falsus) is a rustic instrument, which is of a broad blade of iron curving in point fitted with wood, of which one mows the prez and avoynes. Falx, whose diminutive is sickle.
A "faulx", or similar mowing instrument, which carries a "faulx" or sickle . . ( sic )
I have the impression that they wanted to fill a void with the construction of this narrow building between two others...
"Fatigue is the ruin of the body and anxiety the sickle of the soul." -Arabic proverb -
"The sickle and the hammer for the communists! The cross and the banner for Christians! The sword and the pin for the kings!" -Denis Guedj / The parrot theorem -
"Any kind of good will satisfy our families, The harvest of our fields will weed the sickles, And the fruits will pass the promises of flowers." -François de Malherbe/Poetry, XVIII, Prayer for King Henry the Great going to Limozin (1605)-
"With a silver sickle, we harvest ears of gold." -Finnish proverbs-
"To St. George's Day, Sow your barley; To St. Mark's Day, It's too late. To St. Barnabas, The sickle in the meadow; In July, Sickle on the wrist." -French proverb-
With great looks
"We wrongly wanted to turn the bourgeoisie into a class. The bourgeoisie is simply the happy portion of the people." -Victor Hugo / Les Misérables-
"There is a left-wing bourgeoisie and a right-wing bourgeoisie. There is no people of the left or people of the right, there is only one people." -Georges Bernanos / The great cemeteries under the moon-
"In the language of the bourgeoisie, the greatness of words is directly due to the smallness of feelings." - Edmond and Jules de Goncourt / Ideas and sensation-
"Saint-Vivien district"
I had not seen the "Saint-Vivien" neighborhood since 2012. I had forgotten about it.
Then I had a "flash", this Eau-de-Robec(The Robec river) that I had touched within a glance ... I wanted to see it again at my own pace. The happiness was immense. What a beautiful neighborhood! What joy ! ... needless to say, I will share this happiness with my friends ... if they want to, of course.
The Saint-Vivien district is close to the Saint-Marc,Croix de Pierre and Saint-Nicaise districts of Rouen ... the neighborhoods are so close to each other that you can imagine being in all these districts at the same time ... it all depends from the point of view ...
"The Church of Saint-Vivien"
It is the only church in Normandy to bear the name of Saint Vivien, whose relics were brought to Rouen in 1459. It has three naves.
The church has been classified as a historic monument since March 21, 1932.
The building dates from the 14th century. It is a church without transept, it has three naves which were built successively. It is cited in a text from the time of William the Conqueror. Later, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1358.
On the north facade, you can admire a clock, older than the "Big Clock", whose motto is "the last hour is hidden". Continuing, we find around the corner the trace of the old tower used to collect abandoned babies.
"Nations need heroes and saints as the paste needs sourdough." - Gustave Thibon-
"Saints are people like us, but love pushes them more than we do." - Mr Pouget -
"A barrel of wine can perform more miracles than a church full of saints." - Italian proverb -
"If you cannot be saints of knowledge, at least be warriors." - Friedrich Nietzsche -
"The mystery grid" ... the explanations are in the link below.
"The last hour is hidden"
"Silence is the greatest persecution; the saints have never been silent." -Blaise Pascal/Thoughts-
"The weaknesses of the wicked are the same as those of the saints." - Umberto Eco / The name of the rose -
"If sins were to suffer when we do them, we would all be saints." -Marcel Pagnol / César-
"Eau de Robec street"
It leads from Boulevard Gambetta to Rue des Boucheries-Saint-Ouen, passing through Place Saint-Vivien.
This street, now pedestrianized on the part between rue des Boucheries-Saint-Ouen and place Saint-Vivien, follows the historic course of Robec. It was once occupied in large numbers by dyers. Charles de Bourgueville would have said of rue Eau-de-Robec that "sometimes yellow, other red, green, blue, purple and other colors, according to whether a large number of dyers on top diversify it at intervals, by doing their maneuvers "(sic)
"Rue Eau de Robec (from Place Saint Vivien to Boulevard Gambetta)"
"If absurdity killed, the streets would be littered with corpses." -Jean Dion / Le Devoir - 28 June 1997 -
"Let everyone sweep in front of their door and the streets will be neat." - French proverb -
"You have to be nomadic, cross ideas as you cross cities and streets." - Francis Picabia / Writings II-
Yes, I am always intrigued by what is hidden behind doors and windows ...
This naked mannequin and these dolls with their backs turned could be like a movie of anguish...
"Whoever observes as he walks through the streets, I believe, will see the most cheerful faces in the cars of mourning." -Jonathan Swift -
Gustave Flaubert writes in "Madame Bovary": " The river, which makes this district like an awful little Venice , flowed beneath it, yellow, purple or blue, between its bridges and its gates. Workers squatting on the shore washed their arms on the water. Cotton skeins were drying out in the air on poles from the top of the attics. "
"Talking is tiring and complicating everything, the main thing is to be able to walk side by side in the streets or daydream together at the top of a barn." - Pierrette Fleutiaux / The imperfect lovers -
"I hate Sunday: all these people cluttering the streets, under the pretext of resting." -Roger Martin du Gard / Les Thibault -
"You can take the boy off the street, but you can't take the boy's street out." -Fatboy Slim -
"What do we do on the street, more often than not? We're dreaming. It is one of the most meditative places of our time, it is our modern sanctuary, the Street." -Louis-Ferdinand Céline / Semmelweis-
"The barricade closes the street, but opens the way." - Anonymous / Words of May 68 -
From the street, I see the fountain of the Stone Cross (La Croix de Pierre).
What if you gave me a little space ?!
I like these houses, so narrow, that I come to wonder if people can really live inside. In the old time already, it seemed that it was out of the question to waste the free space.
"Just because you're on the street doesn't mean you're nothing." - My Punk Side -
"When an idea grabs me too much in the middle of the street, I fall." -Stendhal / Life of Henry Brulard-
"Street of the Bridge to Dame Renaude"
Already present in the 13th century, this street is named after the owner of a toll bridge over the Robec.
Small cross street at Eau de Robec Street.
"Is the adventure around the corner?" - Jacques Dutronc / We are hidden everything, we are told nothing -
"A novel character is anyone on the street, but who goes all the way to the end of himself." -Georges Simenon-
"Lamauve street"
Given in memory of the benefits of Doctor Louis-César Lamauve. Born in Vittefleur, this former chief surgeon of the hospital, known for his great charity, had founded in 1852 a hospital reserved for Protestants, in Renard street.
Small cross street at The Eau de Robec street which with its hunchbacked cobblestones awakens my imagination.
"If you walk down the street, you can hear a symphony if you listen enough to capture it." -Kraftwerk-
"Giving your name to a street or a road, what a powerful incentive to encourage young people to do well!" -Tristan Bernard / Tour de France Companion (1935)-
"Rue Eau de Robec (from Place Saint Vivien to Rue des Boucheries-Saint-Ouen)"
The street first owes its name to the river, but also to the dyers and drapers who practiced their trade throughout its course. It was picturesque with its countless walkways that served each house, with the water changing colors several times a day. The stream also served as the sewer. The houses in the neighborhood were gradually adapted to their use and we recognize those of the 18th century with their open attic and sheltered under an overhanging roof which served as a dryer. The street was cleaned up between the two world wars and the Robec now follows an underground route.
"Diamond merchant: Follows the course of the rivers." - Tristan Bernard / Crosswords-
"Rivers do not rush faster into the sea than men in error." - Voltaire -
"There are more people drowning in glasses than in rivers." -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg -
"The deepest rivers are the quietest." -Quinte-Curce / Life of Alexander -
"I hold the stream of the river like a violin." -Paul Eluard / The Open Book -
Canalized and buried between 1938 and 1941, the Robec is today symbolized by a closed circuit stream on the stretch between Rue des Boucheries-Saint-Ouen and Place Saint-Vivien.
"The National Museum of Education"
No. 183-185-187: the House of the Four Sons-Aymon, now the National Museum of Education, listed in 1961.
"In France, we make great museums, not big projects." - François Guiter -
"The world's greatest museums contain only loot." -Frédéric Dard-
"Museums are the liveest places in the world. It looks like a concentration of humanity." - Fernand Ouellette / The Living Death -
"The French Academy is a kind of museum, but of characters still alive." - Pierre Mille-
"Perhaps what hears the most stupid thing in the world is a museum painting." -Edmond and Jules de Goncourt / Ideas and sensations -
"You don't look like the ones you admire by imitating their works." - André Malraux / The Imaginary Museum -
Man has crushed, eliminated, put in the museum all the species capable of eating him. -Bernard Werber/Encyclopedia of Relative and Absolute Knowledge-
According to Giacometti, at the museum, people are much more extraordinary than the paintings they admire. -Christian Bobin/The Ruins of Heaven (2009)-
"Polychrome"
"The house doesn't make slate, it's afraid of tiles." -The small streams /Pascal Rabaté-
"You don't need a key to get into the house, you don't have to go out, stay with me." -Veuf / Jean-Louis Supplied-
"Hansel and Gretel discovered the gingerbread house about 45 minutes after discovering the mushrooms." -Nursery rhymes (1974) /George Carlin-
"His house would always be open and he would receive like a prince would. And he would forget all the books he had read, forget the whole world and his illusions." -Martin eden / Jack London-
"At a certain age of life, if your home is not filled with children, it fills with manias and vices." -Cahiers (1973 edition) / Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve-
"You will never run out of friends, if you have a house for birds in your garden." -The fairy garden/Anne Geddes-
"A rose garden is where roses are grown, a chestnut grove , where chestnuts are grown, and love is a house where love is cultivated." -The tube / Françoise Dorin -
"Some people have to live long before they find the place that will release these words, the house, the home, the chains of language, and more and more people are dying before they have discovered it." -Between Heaven and Earth / Jon Kalman Stefansson-
"House as man can become a corpse. It is enough for a superstition to kills it." -Complete works/ Victor Hugo -
"Sheltered "
Fan of the mystery of doors and windows, these came to light for me! So I wanted to put them on the front page.
"Lucette doesn't have a lot of money, the meals are simple, but rich in love. That must be the secret of grandma's recipes." -Aurélie Valognes/Little luck-
"A dream told me something strange A secret from God that we never knew, The little hunchbacks are little angels, Hiding their wings under their overcoat. That's the secret of the little hunchbacks..." -Marcel Pagnol/Naïs -
"It is so beautiful and so free tenderness that it sometimes does sound like a secret chain noise" -Paul-Jean Toulet/The Notebook of Monsieur du Paur, public man-
"On a day-to-day basis, the changes were undetectable. And then one morning, she noticed a variation, a wrinkled appearance, a garnet vein appeared without warning. Her body in secret seemed to lead a life on its own, a slow insurrection." -Nicolas Mathieu/Their children after them-
"At the Ramplings', the heart is a safe. Carried by generations, family secrecy becomes a legend. We only know how to shut up." -Charlotte Rampling/Who I Am (2015)-
"No pessimist has ever discovered the secret of stars, sailed to unknown lands or opened a new horizon to the human mind" -Helen Keller/Essay on Optimism-
"Harmony"
I love the harmony between Norman houses and trees on this beautiful spring day in April .
"The harp of human feelings is so tense, that if a shock does not break all the strings at once, they always have some harmonies..." -UncleTom/Harriet Beecher Stowe-
"It's a beautiful harmony when doing it and saying it go together." -Works /Michel de Montaigne-
"In the street..."
"Isn't the décor the indispensable complement to the work?" - André Antoine / Small dictionary of theatre -
"The city crushes the forest to set up its décor without thinking of the sound of the song of all the dead birds" - Francis Blanche / My sea urchin and I -
"The mystery is not in a setting, it is the man he haunts." -Jean-Claude Clari / Catherine from I to V-
"When you can't change the world, you have to change the scenery." -Daniel Pennac / The Little Merchant of Prose -
"It's all about the décor. Changing beds, changing bodies What good in it because I'm still betraying myself" - Louis Aragon -
"The faces of those we don't like yet Sometimes appears in the windows of dreams, And goes illuminating on pale decorations In a moon-like moon that rises." -Anna de Noailles/Dreams -
"The charm of travelling is to touch countless rich scenery and to know that each one could be ours and to pass by, as a great lord." - Cesare Pavese / The job of living
"We are not quite the same depending on the setting where we live. Things that happen here would be impossible elsewhere, we are the victims of the scene." -Minou Petrowski / The Passage -
"A set is a great dramatic feeling." -Louis Jouvet-
"Where will you go?"
An alley that seems forbidden and yet there are houses on the other side of the gate. A gate that does not open on this side of the street and arouses my curiosity even more.
One day, I would go by another path and find the entrance to this street that looked like yesteryear, when Rouen looked like a village ... and must not have been very reassuring at night.
"Tribute"
Jean-Edouard Adam was born on this street. He managed to make the Normans look like good drinkers by improving the preservation of wine ...
The craftsmen of the Middle Ages were artists.
Still standing.
"Just in time !"
I know that with "ifs", my walk could have been different ...
If we hadn't been on a Monday ...
If I hadn't been alone ...
If the morning had not been like spring ...
... well, I would not have discovered the passage of the small clock!
But it was a Monday, I was alone and the weather was fine.
"She didn't know what grief was yet, she was genuinely stunned that the clock hands would keep ticking." -Anne Birkefeldt Ragde/The Land of Lies (2009)-
The year does not start on January 1, it starts on March 21. By what aberration has the human calendar been detached from the great cosmic clock that regulates the round of seasons? -Michel Tournier/The King of the Alnes (1970)-
"Apart from talking, I can't do anything. I'm willing to do the talking clock or custom GPS." -Benoît Poelvoorde/AFP, 4 August 2015-
"Love is a matter of spirits and skins that please. But it's just as much about clocks. Each of the lovers has a clock in him. And the two clocks must be tuned." "Erik Arnoult," said Erik Orsenna/What if we danced? (2009)-
"I enter my Swiss clock and fall asleep thinking like every night that the most beautiful is yet to come." -Christian Bobin/The Man-Joy (2012)-
"We would have said an old English play. There was a rather imposing clock that marked every second with the arrogant certainty of working for an eternal enterprise: Time." -David Foenkinos/The Memories (2011)-
"Okay !"
Finally, who dares to speak of the "misunderstanding" between Bretons and Normans!
The proof here that around a good table, the two parties know how to reconcile ... gluttony is ultimately not such an ugly defect ...
"Of all the passions, the only truly respectable seems to me to be gluttony."
- Guy de Maupassant / Lovers and primeurs-
"Gourmandise, laziness, lust: these are the three cardinal virtues, the virtues of the Feast. Paradise on earth." - Jean-Louis Bory / My Half of Orange-
"There is a delicious childhood spirit among all the foodies staged by literature." -Sebastien Lapaque / The Little Girl Gourmandise-
"The gluttony begins when you are no longer hungry." - Alphonse Daudet / Letters from my mill -
"Lieutenant Aubert's square"
To Saint-Maclou ... it blooms nicely ...
Buildings with the looks of yesteryear...
View on the Boucheries Saint-Ouen street and The Abbey of Saint-Ouen
"Petit Mouton street"
From Lieutenant Aubert's place, I spot a narrow passage which turns out to be the Petit Mouton street, the narrowest street in Rouen where in times gone by horses who had to pass one by one. The street where Simone de Beauvoir lived with Jean-Paul Sartre in the 1930s. I go from surprise to surprise in Rouen by discovering all these places.
The Petit Mouton(Small sheep) street leads me from Lieutenant Aubert's Square to the République street.
"Women are all that man calls and all that he does not reach." - Simone de Beauvoir -
"The mystery of the incarnation is repeated in every woman; every child who is born is a God who becomes a man." - Simone de Beauvoir / The Second Sex-
"Why words, this brutal precision that mistreats our complications?" -Simone de Beauvoir / Memoirs of a young girl tidy-
"The present is not a past in power, it is the time of choice and action." -Simone de Beauvoir / For a moral of ambiguity -
"In all tears a hope lingers." - Simone de Beauvoir / The Mandarins -
"Living is getting old, nothing more." -Simone de Beauvoir / The guest -
"If you live long enough, you see that any victory will one day turn into defeat." -Simone de Beauvoir / All men are mortal -
"It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than a creator charged with all the contradictions of the world." -Simone de Beauvoir / Memoirs of a young girl tidy-
"The Croix Verte street"
According to G. Pailhès, there was in the Petit-Mouton street nearby a bakery with a sign of the "Cross of God" painted in green. Always open to traffic, it is one of the shortest streets in Rouen still paved.
Very short street that runs from République street to City Hall.
"When I see Christ on the cross, my arms fall off." - Paul Claudel / Journal -
"Men covered with crosses remind me of a cemetery." -Francis Picabia / Manifesto Funny-Guy - (1921)-
"Pain and suffering are personal crosses. We're always the only ones wearing them." - Dominique Lévy-Chédeville / The man with sad passions -
"Kill your gods forever Under no cross does love please." -Renaud / The Northern Irish Ballad-
"When we don't have a big cross to wear, we make it with two sticks." -Armando Palacio Valdés / Pastoral Symphony-
"A mother's smile often hides a cross and then, loving, isn't it to forget?" -Gabrielle Paquin-Grandbois / The Little Girl with Red Eyes-
"The sickle and the hammer for the communists! The cross and the banner for Christians! The sword and the pin for the kings!" -Denis Guedj / The parrot theorem-
"A French Canadian is a guy who gives his heart to France, his money to England, his blood to the Red Cross... and his vote indiscriminately." -Emile Coderre / Jean Narrache at the devil -
"République street"
Formerly called Royal street then Impérial street , it was renamed under the Third Republic under its current name.
The street goes from the Corneille bridge to the City Hall square.
"The republic is a positive anarchy." -Pierre Joseph Proudhon-
"The Republic affirms the law and imposes duty." - Victor Hugo / Things seen-
"The republic in France has this special thing, that no one wants it and that everyone cares about it." -Joseph Arthur de Gobineau / The Third French Republic and what it is worth
"It is the democrats who make the democracies, the citizen makes the republic." - Georges Bernanos / France against robots
"President of the Republic: the place is good, unfortunately there is no advancement." - Armand Fallières -
"The republic is a corpse; and its strength is no more than the power of a few citizens and the license of all." - Montesquieu -
"It is dangerous to hand over the keys of the Republic to a man tempted by personal power." - Patrick Pepper of Arvor / The Irresolu -
"The President of the Republic is the guardian of the Constitution and while he is doing this, he is not at the pub." -Pierre Desproges-
"The Republic is the right of every man, whatever his religious belief is, to have his share of sovereignty." -Jean Jaurès -
"Elegance"
Between the typically Norman style buildings and the bourgeois style houses, the pretty finely carved wrought iron balconies, the "rue de la République" brings me back to a past that I did not know but which inspires me with great admiration for these workers, those craftsmen who have created masterpieces with less resources than those of today.
I could spend my time with my head up if I didn't have to be careful where I walk ...
"Republicans of the so-called "fierce Republican" species are nothing but returned autocrats. They say, "The Republic is us!" absolutely as Louis XIV said: "The state is me!" " -Victor Hugo/Choses views (1887-1900)-
"Stifle all hatreds, remove all resentments, be united, you will be invincible. Let us all gather around the republic in the face of invasion, and be brothers. We'll win. It is through brotherhood that freedom is saved." -Victor Hugo/Acts and words -
"The most beautiful, the greatest work of the Third Republic, was the school. It allowed all children to learn until the age of thirteen and took them to the factory and workshop where, until then, they worked from the age of nine." -Edouard Bled/I was one year old in 1900 (1987)-
"Let us unite in a common thought, and repeat with me this cry: Long live universal freedom! Long live the Universal Republic!" -Victor Hugo/Acts and Words (1875-1876), Before the Exile, March 2, 1848 by Victor Hugo-
"A man has just broken the Constitution, he tears up the oath he took to the people, suppresses the law, stifles the law, bloodies Paris, garrottes France, betrays the Republic." -Victor Hugo/Proclamation to the army, December 3, 1851-
"We prove, we demonstrate today the Republic. When it was alive, we didn't have to prove it." -Charles Péguy/Thoughts-
"Like a secret"
Anyone who has visited my blog a bit knows that I am drawn to doors and windows , their mystery. I'm not trying to find out what's going on behind it, on the contrary, I prefer to imagine the life that can hide there. Therein lies the charm. The imagination is so much less cruel than reality.
"The republic is the only remedy to the evils of the monarchy and the monarchy is the only remedy to the evils of the republic." -Joseph Joubert / Thoughts-
"The republic is a positive anarchy." -Pierre Joseph Proudhon-
"To become President of the Republic, you just have to be first everywhere, all the time." -Jean Giraudoux-
"A patriot is the one who supports the Republic en masse; anyone who fights it in detail is a traitor." -Saint-Just-
"The best way to serve the Republic is to restore strength and hold on to language." -Francis Ponge / For a Malherbe-
"An attack on the press is an attack on the Republic." -Jean-Paul Huchon / press release, January 7,2015-
"The Republic, a symbolic mother, has a duty to take care of its weakest children." -Abd al Malik -
"The republic... its corruption probably seems greater than in the monarchies. It's because of the number and diversity of people who are brought to power." -Anatole France / L'Orme du mail-
The reflection of the windows in the window ... I'm spoiled!...
"Alsace -Lorraine street"
"I ran happily behind the wooden depot where, wearing a paper tricorne and armed with a stick, I defended Alsace-Lorraine, marched on Berlin and conquered the world until the time of tea." -Roman Gary/The Promise of Dawn (1960)-
"His profile, all of which were rounded without ceasing to be firm, had this Germanic sweetness that penetrated the French face through Alsace and Lorraine." -Victor Hugo/Les Misérables (1862)-
My walk on April 8, 2019 ends in front of this building that I really like:
N ° 20: building with statues from Alsace and Lorraine (beheaded), made in 1887 by Louis Loisel.
"May 6, 2019: new walk, same starting point, different route"
That day, I decide to leave from the Town Hall square but to take a different direction from the previous time. Pretty discoveries await me, I know it. Rouen cannot disappoint me ...
"Still the Saint-Ouen Abbey, still Napoleon ?!" you would tell me. Certainly, you would be right but these monuments are essential on this place and I could make a hundred that the rendering would be different each time according to the light, the seasons ... and my moods ...
also known as "General de Gaulle's Place"
It's not "a blue house" as Maxime Le Forestier sang so beautifully, it's a pretty Norman house, a little wobbly but still standing.
"Man builds houses because he is alive, but he writes books because he knows he is mortal." -Like a novel/ Daniel Pennac-
"But as the houses are silent, the street sooner or later ends up shouting it from the rooftops." -What the day owes to the night /Yasmina Khadra-
No sitting on the ledge of this window?... forbidden to look through the window?... Prohibition of sitting on chairs ?... who knows...
"I'm fine with houses, too. When I pass, each of them comes to meet me, looks at me from all his windows and says: Hello! How are you? I, thank God, I'm doing well. In May I will be added a floor. Or: How's the health? Tomorrow I'm being fixed. Or: I almost burned, God! That I was afraid! Etc." -The Sleepless Nights/ Dostoyevsky-
"Petit Porche" street
"I demand the right to dream at the turn of the road. To the great charms of the promenade the right to move me from the world now that the canonade approaches. I demand the right of men to tilt their anxious faces in the mirror of the fountains. To love wheat and to say it. To seek a sweet uncertain peace. I demand the right to paint my country." -I plead for the streets and woods of today /Louis Aragon-
"How do you put on a show when you think that the best show is not worth a walk in the countryside?" -A people of walkers: Gypsy stories / Alexandre Romanès-
"I hooked my brain to the coat hanger and then I went out and I did the perfect walk." -A snow-white assassin / Christian Bobin-
"The homeland is all the walks you can take on foot around your village." -Jules fox -
"The walk is not tourism. It is the pleasure of walking, quietly, according to your desires, without a specific objective." -The walker/Jir ô Taniguchi-
Formerly called 'Ruelle de la Jaudine'. Disappeared during the construction of the north wing of the Hôtel-de-Ville (former police station). Came from the front door of the abbey palace. (sic)
"Seille street"
Standing along the enclosure ditch Henry II, subdivision of Montbret streets (formerly Pincedos) and Seille date of early 14th century . Families of Rouen, parliamentarians established their mansions there, when they were not residing in the Royal Court. The architecture remained nonetheless rowdy, the elites keeping the concern to integrate into the existing urban fabric and not to flaunt their wealth. (Source: www.rouen.fr)
At number 12: Known as the Miromesnil Hotel because of one of its owners, Marie Charlotte Duhamel, relative by marriage of the seal keeper of Louis XVI, the Marquis Miromesnil, and who lived in the latter's castle in Tourville-sur-Arques, long before the birth of Guy de Maupassant...
"We wrongly wanted to turn the bourgeoisie into a class. The bourgeoisie is simply the happy portion of the people." -Victor Hugo / Les Miserables -
"In the language of the bourgeoisie, the greatness of words is directly due to the smallness of feelings." -Edmond and Jules de Goncourt / Ideas and sensations-
At number 6: From the second half of the 18th century th century, this hotel was the seat of the General Treasury for more than a century from 1835.
"Our little bourgeoisie is all made up of uprooted people. You only have to go back a generation or two to meet the peasant. The whole bottom of the race is there." - Jean-Charles Harvey / The Half-civilized -
"It's mind-boggling the way in which the world of the ladies of the bourgeoisie manages to smooth everything and integrate everything, to transform the complexity and chaos of the environment into something charming, harmless and sanitized." -Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones, the age of reason -
"Cigogne street"
What an explicit way to image the name of this street!
Simple and efficient .
At least this mom and her babies won't migrate anywhere. They definitely took up residence in Normandy ...
"The stork is credited with moral virtues whose image is always respectable: temperance, marital fidelity, filial and paternal piety." -Georges Louis Leclerc, Earl of Buffon/Natural History of Birds (1770/1783), The Stork-
"This broth was served by him on a plate: The Long-billed Stork could not catch crumbs; And the funny guy had lapped it all out in a moment." -Jean de La Fontaine/Fables (1668-1694), First Book, XVIII, The Fox and the Stork-
"Some travel to regulate their temperature like storks, or to check dreams or theories. Others slip away for a moment to be desired..." - Jacques Meunier / Interview with Catherine Argand (June 1992)-
"Beauvoisine street"
Let me be clear right away, I don't have a lot of science and I don't know the history of each street. The source of what follows is: www.rouen.fr
"Structuring social and economic life, this north-south route is inherited from the Gallo-Roman era. Beauvoisine street is then only a country lane (called Aubevoie until the 15th century), which" starts " from the Sainte-Apolline gate, north breakthrough of the city's first ramparts, near the current crossroads of La Crosse. At the beginning of the 13th century, the city had its ramparts leveled down to raise a second enclosure at the outer limit of the the current place de la Rougemare. The gate takes the name of Aubevoie or Rougemare and it is renamed "rue Beauvoisine" the newly urbanized path that leads there from La Crosse. Indicating the direction of Picardy lands, rue Beauvoisine would take its name in the country of Beauvoisis.
The presence of a Roman road leading to Cesarimagus (Beauvais) is also attested during excavations in 1856. Again, the city is cramped behind its Aubevoie gate. In 1254, the ramparts were dismantled and brought up above. Until the end of the 18th century, the “Beauvoisine gate”, on the current eponymous square, organized the north access to this third enclosure. In eight centuries, the country path descending from the north "mountain" has become one of the liveliest streets in Rouen. Favorably exposed to the south, the street overlooks the city and benefits from the compulsory passage of barges and merchants from the northern provinces. Traders and craftsmen set up along the street. Evidence of the intense traffic, there is between the streets of Cordier and Beffroy, in the 18th century, an important inn with the sign of the Rooster, which will leave a lasting impression. The crossroads at the corner of the Rougemare remains in fact called the "crossroads of the Rooster", and the design of the said gallinaceous was encrusted in the sidewalk, facing the bakery, during the renovation of the street. "
"Why are we in the world, if not to amuse our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?" -Jane Austen/Pride and Prejudice (1813)-
"You write for your neighbors or for God. I took the side of writing for God in order to save my neighbors." -Jean-Paul Sartre/Les Mots (1964)-
"Health is about having the same diseases as your neighbours." -Quentin Crisp/Nude Official (1968)-
"Jean Lecanuet street"
Jean Lecanuet, born on March 4, 1920 in Rouen and died on February 22, 1993 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French politician.
Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet, known as Louis Bouilhet, born in Cany on May 27, 1821 and died in Rouen on July 18, 1869, is a French poet. He was a fellow of Gustave Flaubert at the Royal College in Rouen, and much later a close friend.
Commemorative plaque under his bust.
"Fountain, I won't drink your water."
Beautiful bust.
To see and review ...
"Le Secq des Tournelles museum"
I like the churches transformed into museums, the heritage is thus safeguarded and the works are sublimated in these majestic places ... I still have to visit this museum, my morning walks and the opening hours of the places are rarely compatible ...
"At the Chair Museum, there was no room to sit." -Gaetan Faucer-
"In front of the Louvre Museum, an agent shouted: Move! There's nothing to see." -Yvan Audouard/ Artist, Dialoguist, Journalist (1914/ 2004)-
"It is in the museum that the frames travel the most." -Gaetan Faucer-
"The museum is the equivalent of the old people's retirement for works of art." -Louis Pons-
When an angel appears...
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." -Pablo Picasso/ Artist, Painter (1881 / 1973)-
"Perhaps the one which hear the most stupid thing in the world is a museum painting." -Edmond And Jules De Goncourt-
"Museology is not the study of the museum, but rather the study of the definition of the museum." -Efanam Koda-
"In Paris, the wax museum is not dedicated to candlelight." -Gaetan Faucer-
"Jacques Villon Library"
"You only have to spend five minutes in the anthropology section of a large university library to marvel at the vastness of the world and the extraordinary variety of its inhabitants." -The crime of martiya van der leun/ Mischa Berlinski
"A dying mother is a burning library." -And if it were true.../ Marc Levy-
"And likewise, knowing that I loved my books, his goodness provided me with a number of volumes from my library, which are more precious to me than my duchy." -The storm / William Shakespeare-
"In twenty-four hours, I lost my career, my boyfriend and my library, probably a record in the annals of not natural disasters." -Murderous flavours: the investigations of Miss Lalli / Kalpana Swaminathan-
"There are people who have a library like eunuchs have a harem." -Library/ Victor Hugo-
"Saint Godard Church"
"To be deceived is human, to persist in one's mistake is evil." -Saint Augustine D'Hippo Philosopher, Religious, Saint, Scientist, Theologian (354 / 430)-
"We need patience with everyone, but especially with ourselves." -Saint François De Sales/ Church doctor, bishop, religious, Saint (1567/1622)-
"Why do you see a straw in your brother's eye, while you don't see a beam in yours?" -Saint Matthew/ Apostle, Religious, Holy ( - 61)-
"He who gets lost into his passion loses less than the one who loses his passion." -Saint Augustine D'Hippo-
"The noise doesn't do any good, and the good doesn't make any noise." -Saint François De Sales-
"The measure of love is to love without measure." -Saint Augustine D'Hippo-
"Don't worry about the next day, for the next day will be concerned with itself; every day has enough with its pain." -Saint Matthew-
On the walls, statues of saints and among them not a single black. I'm telling you again. We do not yet have the right to a city in Paradise. We must probably frighten St. Peter terribly, who would rather direct us to Belzebuth because of the color of our skin." -Bernard Dadié/A Negro in Paris (1959)-
Bishop of Rouen (6th century) Saint Godard Bishop of Rouen in the 6th century is also known as St Gildard. Archbishop Guillaume Bonne-Ame (1079-1110) instituted an annual procession with station in the ancient Church of Saint Roman. It will take the name of Saint Godard, who was then believed to have been buried there a hundred years before Romain." (source: website of the diocese of Rouen) In Rouen, after 511, Saint Godard, bishop.
"Saint - Godard square"
"All debauched are saints who ignore themselves." -Roger Fournier/The Arena Circle (1982)-
"The bastards, the saints, I've never seen one. Nothing is all black or all white, it is the grey that wins. Men and their souls are the same... You're a gray soul, beautifully gray, like all of us." -Philippe Claude/The Grey Souls (2003)-
"Alas! this is the unfathomable law of destiny: as soon as a man is intelligent, either he is a drunkard or he makes faces to scare away all the saints of paradise." -Nikolai Gogol/The Revizor (1836), The Governor -
Where does laziness end, where does contemplation begin? That is an interesting question. To answer to it might well belittle great saints to the rank of vulgar slee. -Jean Dutourd/Doucin (1955)-
"In Ireland, sometimes fools are mistaken for saints." -William Trevor/Coup du fate (1995)-
"My experience, Johnny, has shown me that ninety-five per cent of people are larvae, one per cent of saints, one per cent of bastards. The remaining three per cent are people who do their best." -Stephen King/Dead Zone (1979)-
"Ecole street"
Education is not limited to childhood and adolescence. Teaching is not limited to school. All life, our environment is our education, and an educator both severe and dangerous." -Paul Valery-
"The school should always aim to give its students a harmonious personality, not to train them as specialists." -Albert Einstein-
"He who opens a school gate, closes a prison." -Victor Hugo-
"My sweet ducks!"
My little ducks from Square Verdrel. Between births and education, our dear mothers are very busy
"A mother never sees the ugly duckling in her nest of chicks." -Doym-
"We raise ducklings in the water and then we fear that they will get angry if they dip a leg in them. The ducks end up hating the pond that carried them." -Michèle Mailhot / The Mad Queen
"A mother's love is the conviction that her chicks are swans; which is the best way to cheer up children who are convinced they are naughty ducklings." -Pam Brown / Mom or Mother-
"October: May Of Ducks." -The word of the silencer, Dictionary of the Marginal /Albert Brie-
Mum is never far...
"The duration of the villages is in deep order, and their duck water is watching." -Jean Follain/Use of time-
To swim underwater raccoons have fins. They will always resent the ducks for stealing the snorkels from them to get their necks. -Patrick Sébastien/Notebook (2001)-
"When you're involved in computer science, you have to do what the ducks do... Appear calm on the surface and pedal like a force from below." -Richard Lallement-
"If it rains at St. Médard's Day, - It's good weather for the ducks." -Dictons-
"Dads or singles ?!"
"If you look at what the duck eats, you won't eat duck." - Creole-Proverb
"When a man has a duck's beak, duck wings and duck legs: it's a duck. That's also true for little jerks. " -Michel Audiard / The Old Of The Old
"The duck's legs are short, it is true; but growing them would not bring him anything." -Tchouang-Tseu-
"Towards another world"
The Ceramics Museum, opposite The Verdrel square. Find out more about the museum's history by clicking on the museum's history.
Walking up the irregular steps of Falcon Street, you arrive at the entrance to the ceramics museum. At the bottom, you can see the Joan of Arc Tower.
From the top of the steps, a beautiful view of Verdrel Square.
Yesteryear steps
The roof of the Joan of Arc Tower, so close and yet still far away.
Located in the beautiful hotel of Hocqueville (17th - 18th century), the museum, while presenting the most important earthenware centres (Delft, Nevers), is centered on the splendours of the Production of Rouen: tiles of Masséot Abaquesne (16th century), blue cameo of Poterat, polychrome and sparkling Chinese decorations of the rock era, great ceremonial services and spectacular earthenware sculptures.
Better than the climb of the steps of Cannes ( famous french cinema festival)!
When the past looks to the future ...
History: Street pierced in 1610. Its name comes from Mr. Faucon de Ris, Speaker of the Normandy Parliament.
"The Joan of Arc Tower"
This dungeon was part of the castle built in 1204 by Philippe Auguste. It is in this castle that the trial of Joan of Arc took place and in this dungeon that the heroine was threatened with torture in the presence of her judges but it is in another tower, now disappeared, that she was locked up. This large cylindrical tower includes three superimposed rooms and an attic which is a reproduction of the 19th century.
Adresse: Rue Bouvreuil, 76000 Rouen Téléphone: 02 35 71 24 49
"A twelve-year-old child, a very young girl, confusing the voice of the heart and the voice of heaven, conceives the strange, improbable, absurd, if you will, to execute the thing that men can no longer do, to save their country. " -Jules MICHELET (1798-1874), Joan of Arc (1853)-
"A queen is enough for each tower." -Jacques Pater / Le Petit Pater illustrated-
"Jane, do you think you are in a state of grace? "If I am not there, God will put me there; if I am there, God wants to keep me there. » -Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), Rouen, trial of Joan of Arc, 24 February 1431-
"Before you build the tower, you have to calculate the expense." -Saint Luke / Gospel-
"We are lost, we have burned a saint." -Secretary of the King of England, after the execution of Jeanne, Rouen, 30 May 1431-
"Everyone has rights. A man tied to a bed has rights. A man locked in a dungeon has rights. A crying little baby has rights. Yes, you have rights. What you don't have is power." -Animal life/Justin Torres-
"But where are the snows of yesteryear? [...] And Jeanne the good Lorraine / That the English burned in Rouen? » -François Villon (c. 1431-1463), The Great Testament, Ballad of the Ladies of The Old Times (1462)-
"Hell is not the others, it is the obligation to live with them. The best thing is to build a solitary dungeon with the cement of his dream strong enough for the surf of the outside world to break: a building that resembles the Greek thebaid. But the limit of the thebainy is that the one who retreats from it devotes himself only to the exercises of the mind and leaves on the threshold his vital force: he retreats into the castle of his thoughts." -Sylvain Tesson-
"Donjon Street"
Gentle damsel perched on her balcony...
"Let everyone sweep in front of their door and the streets will be clear." -French proverb-
"You have to be nomadic, cross ideas as you cross cities and streets." -Francis Picabia / Writings II-
"Long, long, long After the poets disappeared Their songs are still running in the streets." -Charles Trenet / The Soul of Poets-
View of Dr Alfred Cerne's Square
"If eyes could give birth or kill, the streets would be filled with pregnant women and littered with corpses." -Paul Valery-
"Talking is tiring and complicating everything, the main thing is to be able to walk side by side in the streets or daydream together at the top of a barn." -Pierrette Fleutiaux / The imperfect lovers-
"I hate Sunday: all these people cluttering the streets, under the pretext of resting." -Roger Martin du Gard / Les Thibault-
"Before spring arrives"
Before the good weather arrives and in the evening ... indeed, I am rather a morning walker except when my friends Véro, Denis and Marina come to spend the weekend at home. Not only is it a joy but, I always take a real pleasure to walk with them and, to make them discover corners of Rouen that they do not yet know.
"In the gardens of the Town Hall"
"The rose is a garden where trees hide." -Djalal-Eddine Roumi-
"Beauty is a wild garden..." -Anne Rice / Lestat the Vampire-
"Come to the garden, I'd like my roses to see you." -Richard Brinsley Sheridan-
"Kiss! Tremoière rose in the garden of cuddles!" -Paul Verlaine / Saturnian poems-
"A book is like a garden that you carry in your pocket." -Gladys Taber-
"Itgrows more things in a garden than we have sown." -Serbo-Croatian proverb-
"The Centaur in winter"
"Mythology is a dictionary of living hieroglyphics." -Charles Baudelaire / Théophile Gautier-
"What the public wants is the image of passion, not the passion itself." -Roland Barthes / Mythologies-
"Nocturnal"
From the garden, we can admire the Rue des Faulx (see its history above) and the Saint Vivien church. If it weren't for the lights, we would think we were transported to another time.
"Rollon by night "
