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 | Streets of the Old Lille |
History of the streets of the Old Lille |
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Place Louis de Bettignies |
| In the past “place Martin Saint”. Louise of bettignies, born in Saint-Amand in 1880, belongs to the great figures of Resistance. When the 1st World war bursts, Louise of bettignies which lives in Lille since 1903, starts by looking after casualties then is contacted by the English army and her Intelligence Service. She takes part then in activities of espionage and, under the name of Alice Dubois, sets up a network of information which six months later account already 80 members. The network “Alice” makes pass from the men to England and informs the allies about the activities of the German army, the imminence of an attack in the sector of Verdun for example… “Alice” for Resistance, Louise of bettignies is “Pauline” for the French Army! Stopped by the Germans in 1915 in Froyennes close to Turned, it is condemned to died on March 16, 1916 before seeing its sorrow commuted to detention with perpetuity. In its cell with Siegburg, it contracts a pneumonia to which it succumbs on September 17, 1918 in Cologne. In 1927, in Lille, a monument with its memory is drawn up on which one can read “With louise of bettignies and with the women heroins of the invaded countries”. |
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Rue Lepelletier |
| Deputy of the nobility to the States General of 1789, lepelletier belongs to the first to be joined the deputies of the third state. Re-elected with the Convention of 1792, he votes the death of the king. The shortly after the execution of Louis XVI, on January 20, 1793, Louis Michel lepelletier of Saint-Fargeau is assassinated by Paris, old a royalist bodyguard. |
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Place du Lion d'Or |
| This place draws its name from the sign of a hotel which existed at this place. |
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Rue Léonard Danel |
| (Called in 1906). Celebrate philanthropist, Léonard Danel, born in Lille in 1818, dies in 1905. Chairman of the board of the mines of Lens, engaged in all the charitable ½ uvres of Lille, he is a also director of the printing works which bears its name. He is according to any probability the son of Léonard Danel, printer street of Manneliers, which published in 1789 the text of the book of the third state of Lille. |
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