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English version : Dautry, town planning with a human face
On the platform at Tergnier station, Gustave is meeting his granddaughter Jeanne. She’s a student who has come to do some research for a project on workers’ housing. They are off for a walk around Tergnier. It’s here that an ideal town was built for the railwaymen. A town that we can rediscover today by locating the symbols that date back to the era of the great cathedrals …
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On the platform at Tergnier station, Gustave is meeting his granddaughter Jeanne. She’s a student who has come to do some research for a project on workers’ housing. They are off for a walk around Tergnier. It’s here that an ideal town was built for the railwaymen. A town that we can rediscover today by locating the symbols that date back to the era of the great cathedrals …
Step 1 : the station square
Tergnier, a town that grew up around the railway.
la place de la gare
Step 2 : la place de la raffinerie, Refinery Square
The mining village: the antithesis of a model town.
la place de la raffinerie
Step 3 : the canal
Today the canal is a symbol of waterway traffic, in Occupied France it was the demarcation line.
le canal
Step 4 : the footbridge
A good place to see why the railways were important to Tergnier.
la passerelle
Step 5 : Veltin school
The clock stopped at the exact time that the death knell was tolled for Dautry’s model city.
l'école Veltin
Step 6 : la place Raoul Dautry, Raoul Dautry square
The heart of the town and community life.
la place Raoul Dautry
Step 7 : la place du 113ème R.I., 113th square
A commemorative landmark that is not quite in the right place.
la place du 113ème R.I.
Step 8 : Buttes Chaumont Park
An oasis of greenery full of memories.
le parc des Buttes Chaumont
Step 9 : la place de la Mairie, Town Hall square
A square full of symbols that reveal the old connections between Tergnier and freemasonry.
la place de la Mairie
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