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Buildings
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Hôtel de Ville,Tribunal de
Commerce
built in 1828
Townhall - Commercial Court
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La Halle au Blé, the
wheat building
The wheat would be sold on the market
place near the church up to the construction of the Halle in 1840.
Then, the ground floor was allotted to
wheat sales and the first floor to the Law Court.
At the beginning of the XXth century, wheat were no longer sold and the
building was used as rooms for gymnastics, theater, music and still
the Law Court.
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Former "gendarmerie"
Former headquarters of the
"gendarmes" ie headquarter of state police
force, "At
the junction of the rue du Pont Vautier and the rue
Traversiere"
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L'Auberge de l'Ecu
The legend tells
that Alain Duke of Brittany ...
was poisoned in this Inn, Auberge de l’Ecu, on October 1st 1040.
Actually the event took place in Montgommery Castle, 1,5 km from
Vimoutiers. Then Duke Alain’s body was brought back to Vimoutiers,
laid in a room at the first floor of this Inn, then transferred in
Saint Sauveur Church and finally was conveyed to the Abbey of Fecamp.
On Roger de Montgomeri's land
More about Mont Gommeri
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Hôtel du Soleil d'Or
on the Place Cour-aux-Moines/Monks yard.
The second view is an annex of the hotel, at the very place
where the
four banal/village furnace used to be. The public fountain, right hand picture, was inaugurated in 1823.
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Hotels...
Le Petit
Vimoutiers, La Couronne, Le¨Point de France
Le "Petit Vimoutiers", after
the name of a cheese |
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Les Bains-Douches
ie Public
bath and shower facilities built in 1931, located rue Crestey. Factually, the rue Crestey goes
along the market place opposite to the Halle. It was previously named rue du Fais-Cuit. After June 14, 1944, the Public bath were
settled rue Louis Pasteur in the building
which nowadays is the School of music.
Pierre Crestey fonded the Hospice of
Vimoutiers
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At the
railway station
inside the bags ? ...
apples !
Inaugurated on Dec 31st, 1881 and desmolished in October, 2006
Se also
THE bus !
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L'école
communale des garçons
Boys school, inaugurated on September the 1st, 1891
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Sources
and bibliography
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