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Photographs of yesterday and today |
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Cornflowers place |
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| This place exists since 1703 close to the house of the orphans of the barn says “cornflowers”. In the medium the hotel of the cornflowers is, this establishment was created in 1499 to receive the orphans, it now receives the buildings of the French Army. |
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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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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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Notre Dame de la Treille |
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| Construction began in 1854 by the foundation from the vault absidale. As for the large cathedrals of the Middle Ages it took 150 years to complete the work. The inauguration of the frontage was made on December 19, 1999. |
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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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