Grande Rue (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
The Grande Rue is a street in Boulogne-sur-Mer that houses a large number of shops and restaurants, especially in its initial section.
Location and course
The street begins about 250 meters east of the harbor, to which it is connected by the rue de la Lampe that runs in between . At the junction with the north-west rue Victor-Hugo and the rue Nationale , which initially runs in a south-easterly direction, the rue de la Lampe de facto becomes the Grande Rue, which runs uphill to the Porte des Dunes in a north-easterly direction before turning into its last section turns to the north and leads downhill to the Boulevard Auguste Mariette , where it ends as does the Rue Félix Adam coming from the west .
Special buildings and residents
On the right-hand side of the Grande Rue, Place Dalton opens between numbers 16 and 18 , on which the Église Saint-Nicolas is located - which runs directly along the Grande Rue (with the entrance at number 3 on Place Dalton).
Casa San Martin is at number 113 . The Argentine folk hero José de San Martín , who liberated Argentina , Chile and Peru from Spanish colonial power , lived in this house from 1848 until his death on August 17, 1850. Today the house houses the Musée du Libertador San Martin, which is dedicated to him .
From Casa San Martin it is about a hundred meters to the Porte des Dunes, where the Grande Rue, which has previously been uphill in a north-easterly direction, turns straight north and on its last section of about fifty meters leads downhill between two parks and on the boulevard Auguste Mariette ends.
It is believed that the Busson du Maurier family lived on Grande Rue at the beginning of the 1840s .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tourisme Boulogne-sur-Mer ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; accessed April 5, 2013)
- ^ A France Attraction (accessed April 5, 2013)
- ↑ Daphne du Maurier writes in her family chronicle The Du Mauriers that Mary Anne Clarke, the maternal grandmother of George du Maurier , moved to Boulogne, where she with her daughter Ellen and their children George, Eugène and Isabella and at times hers around 1840/41 Son-in-law Louis-Mathurin lived in a comfortable apartment on Grande Rue (Heron Books, p. 130). Since only Boulogne is mentioned as a place, there is uncertainty as to whether it was Boulogne-sur-Mer , located on the English Channel , or the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt , which also has a Grande Rue . The fact that the grandmother got to know Boulogne after coming here briefly once or twice from Dover and the town is also described as picturesque (p. 127) suggests that it is the northern French town.
