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 | Streets of the Old Lille |
History of the streets of the Old Lille |
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Rue des Vieux Murs |
| The street is traced on the first fortifications of Lille. The walls of the “Castrum”, built by the count of Flanders Baudouin IV, contained the ground which became the Saint-Pierre parish. |
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Rue Voltaire |
| (Renamed on February 17, 1831). In the past “street of three eels”, then “of Angouleme” under the Restoration. François Marie Arouet says Voltaire is born in Paris on February 26, 1694. This future deist carries out his studies among Jesuits. Writer and philosopher, Master of the irony and the satire, it is imprisoned with the Bastille for offence with the regent. It is during this imprisonment that he writes Oedipus (1717). If Voltaire thinks of remaining in the posterity thanks to his tragedies: Zaire (1732), the Death of César (1735), Tancrède, these are the philosophical tales which will remain famous. Zadig or the destiny, Ingenuous or optimism, the Ingenuous one, the Man with the forty ecus represents sour criticisms of through ka monarchical company: political abuses, weaknesses of justice, corruption of manners, clerical fanaticism… At 52 years, Voltaire makes his entry that the Court, where it fulfills the function of historiographer of the king Louis XV. A few years before its Mahomet tragedy is played for the first time in Lille, in the room of the street of the Old Comedy. From 1750 to 1753, it resides in Berlin at the court of Frederic II from where it written the Century of Louis XV. Returned in Paris, he dies in 1778. |
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