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Avenue du Peuple Belge |
| (called on December 26, 1933) In the past quay of Low-Deûle. Becomes the avenue of the Belgian people when low Deûle is filled. |
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The pont-neuf |
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| The bridge gave its name to the street. Built in 1701, it attached part of the Vieux-Lille and allowed the passage of the tram. Today it is a bitumen river which the bridge spans instead of the Lowone. |
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The Market with sugars |
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| Being used as well for sugars, as with the grains like with the fabrics, the provisioning of the warehouse was facilitated by the proximity of Low-Deûle. Now it lodges a post office. |
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Law courts and Deûle. |
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| On the photograph of left one can see the old law courts, built in 1835 with the site of collegial the Saint-Pierre destroyed with the Revolution. On the with dimensions one the prisons were, shortening the way of condemned. Opposite Low-Deûle called the “large shore ran out”. On the photograph of left, one sees the law courts built at the XXème century and the transformation of Deûle into avenue of the Belgian People. |
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Law courts |
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| The river navigation was prohibited in 1914 during the German occupation. In 1921, the Lowone is not any more that one cemetery of boat fills up of a nauseous odor. A collective awakening will allow work of suppression of Low-Deûle. On these photographs one sees the old one and the new law courts but especially the importance of the installation of Low-Deûle become a road river. |
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Source : « Lille - Tome II : Lille-centre, Vieux-lille » de Patrice Rossez.
collection « Mémoires en Images » aux éditions Alan Sutton.
Dépôt légal : novembre 2002.
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