A neighborhood police station and housing for employees of the horticultural school were located at the corner of rue Hardy until the 1980s. Former vegetable garden and orchard of Louis XIV and his successors. No 7: Home in 1789 for Isaac Le Chapelier, founder of the Breton club which met at the café Amaury, rue Carnot, and associated with the corporate prohibition law which bears his name and which was never applied.Īt No 10: Current entrance to the Potager du Roi which was created from 1678 to 1683 under the direction of Jean-Baptiste de la Quintinie. No 5: House where Mademoiselle de Romans died, one of the mistresses of Louis XV in 1808, from whom she had a recognized son Louis-Antoine de Bourbon. Awarded in 1864-1869 to the chief medical officer of the military hospital. No 4: Lot attributed to Jean Loustonneau, surgeon of the Children of France, under Louis XV. No 2: Former small vegetable garden of the king (manure and seedlings), allotted in 1736. Named after Joseph Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French Army from 1914 to 1916 during WWI.Īt No 1: Former restaurant of the Trois Marches (Gérard Vié moved to rue Colbert then to the Grand Trianon). Old rue de Satory named after the hill it crosses to the south. The Rue du Maréchal Joffre: Saint-Louis district. The Lycée Hoche One of the many lycées (high schools) in Versailles, but the oldest. 16: House built by André Le Nôtre, master gardener of Louis XIV, he probably did not live in it and sold it in 1686. No 14: House of the Francini fountains (before their installation at the Château de Grand-Maison in Villepreux) No. No 8-10: House with the sign of the Flower basket under Louis XIV. High place of theophilanthropy under the French revolution. No 5: Protestant church since 1820 (the current temple was built from 1880 to 1882) former chapel of the repository of the procession of the Blessed Sacrament under the old Regime. Some interesting buildings here I like areĪt No 1, 3, 5: old hotel Conti, built in 1765. A statue of Gen Hoche was erected in 1836 and a public garden landscaped in 1853. At Place Hoche was the place of public access to wheelbarrows and blue chairs in the 18C and to capital executions as the first hanging in 1788. He became famous during the French revolutionary wars and the Vendée Wars (including Bretagne), which he pacified. Named after Lazare Hoche, born in Versailles rue de Satory, become general of division. Former street and square Dauphine, de la République, de la Loi, de la Colonne, Napoleon, then Hoche under Louis-Philippe in 1832. The Rue Hoche: Notre-Dame district (mine !). Then at No 8: Residence Les Hespérides-des-Manèges. It is less decorative and smaller than the barracks gate. The gate of the carousel has a horse’s head.

On the arch of the barracks portal, the motifs of cannons, crowns, the “LN” for Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as well as the “N” for Napoleon illustrate its origin.

Nostalgic for us as my oldest son worked here at No 6-8: Monumental porch: vestige of the entrance to the old cavalry barracks and the merry-go-rounds destroyed in 1988 to make way for the Maneges shopping center ,it was inaugurated in 1991. Opposite, in place of an old music pavilion, the regional bus station and in particular the coach service (Eurolines) for Portugal. Inaugurated in 1840, the railway station, restored in 2014, changed its name in February 2012. No 5: Versailles-Château-Rive gauche RER C station. Former hotel of Marie-Anne de Bourbon, princess of Conti, daughter of Louis XIV, then of the Grand Masters of the royal house under Louis XV and city/town hall of Versailles since 1791 (corner of and main entrance avenue de Paris). Some of the interesting buildings here areĪt No 1: city/town hall of Versailles.

Named for General Charles de Gaulle, liberator of occupied France and president of the French Republic from 1859 to 1969. Former rue de Berry since 1829, then rue de la Mairie and rue Thiers until 1979. Gives access to the V ersailles-Château train station and the bus station, between the first city/town hall of Versailles and the Manège district. Most surely the first street you meet while arriving to Versailles. The Avenue du Général de Gaulle: Notre Dame district (mine !). I am looking at some pictures from my vault and found some new ones of memorable streets of Versailles! Therefore, here they are hope you enjoy them as I do. If you have read my blog posts you know why. Ok so here I am back home literally, always my Versailles.

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