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 | Streets of the Old Lille |
Photographs of yesterday and today |
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The place Louise de Bettignies |
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| In the past Saint Martin's day place, of the name of the Saint Martin's day fountain which was close to the castle of Courtrai, the place Louise de Bettignies owes her name with resistant of the 1st world war. The house of Gilles de Boë, built in 1636, now placed a pub “With the Good Bubble” it shelters a sign loan-with-to carry. |
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The place of Concert |
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| It owes its name with the academy of music present at with dimensions. Behind the statue of the mayor Andre, inaugurated in 1908, one can see a bandstand. Instigator of resistance inhabitant of Lille his statue replaced that of the duke of Berry. Nowadays the place in the concert is the theatre of the market Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. |
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The place of the patiniers |
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| Named thus thanks to Jean Patinier former owner of several houses at this place. The signs changed but the place is always also commercial. |
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The place with Onions |
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| Work of restoration of the Vieux-Lille in the Eighties was right of the blackness and the state of decay of what is now one of the most beautiful districts of Lille. |
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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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