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The Thouet Montreuil-Bellay

The Thouet fluvius Toarus : first mentioned in 905. Source 225 meters above sea level near Secondigny in the Gâtine Parthenaise. 152 km, including 31 in Maine-et-Loire. Main tributaries: the Palace, the Cebron, the Thouaret, Argenton and Dive. Its network covers 3396 km ² and drains the north and south of the Poitou-Saumur. Its low flow is sometimes less than 2 cubic meters while that of its flood is estimated at 108 cubic meters per second. It flows into the Loire in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, at an altitude of 25 meters.


Until the late nineteenth century, the waterway was Thouet Montreuil-Bellay, below the floor of the castle, until his confluence with the Loire, Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent.
We discover here in the first canoe navigable reaches of the river once channeled, this floor of the castle until the first lock, known as the room.

Illusion navigation a festival day at Montreuil-Bellay.

The first reach of the waterway once Thouet in Montreuil-Bellay

A and 1 - At XV century, the lords of Montreuil, d'Harcourt, did build a series of bridges in parallel disused ford to keep the old path of the Goat, he continued. These bridges connected the two shores and islands of Thouet to reach the right bank between Tower Boëlle and Auberge des Isles which was perhaps a former grant. These bridges were repeatedly damaged by flooding from the river and finally collapsed in 1577. The old road has disappeared partially replaced by a modern dam upstream perpendicular to the left bank.

The ruins of the ancient Gothic bridges, collapsed in 1577.

2 - The ancient water mill, said Castle, disappeared in a fire on the night of August 7, 1896. The existing, disused, was built soon after the Renaissance.

3 - 4 - 6 - The port on the Montreuillais Thouet moved twice. First built left bank (port Guibert), slightly upstream of the existing bridge, he was transferred right bank (Hamelin Harbour) was built in 1710 when a new bridge (located in the extension of the current, but against the left bank ). The third port, the port of St. Catherine, left bank was created in 1862.
Port St. Catherine, today decommissioned.


4 - The first stone of the Napoleon bridge, designed by the engineer Norman, was laid October 9, 1908. Destroyed by the Germans August 29, 1944, it was rebuilt larger, as shown in the lighter color of the stone arches.

5 - The Bridge of 1710 was swept away by a flood in 1798.

Map ruined bridge built in 1710. (ADML)

7 - Base kayaking, open all afternoon on weekends and public holidays in May, June and September and daily in July and August.

8 - A floor, date unknown, "made with piles, bundles of wood and tree trunks, wrapped in clay" River bar across its width. She has created a pool of water required to operate the mill Varenne, now called the room "due to its location near the castle of the same name, slightly downstream. Around 1603, was a basin-shaped oval, the first lock Thouet for lowering boats Montreuil at Saumur. This lock, like those of Rimodan and Bron, is called "archaic", formerly closed by two doors middies, which was a big improvement over the pavement provided with a single door - as the Motte - that emptied the forebay at each passage of boats. There exist more in France than 4 of these old locks, three on Thouet so.



Thouet The former Mill Hall, Lock archaic.


Thouet walk on the foot of the castle of Montreuil-Bellay.
the extreme right, the Dovall House, birthplace of the poet Charles Dovall (1807 - 1829).

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A new ferry for Nantes

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A ferry in the city: Punta Portugalete Vizcaya (Spain)


If, in our homes, stand on a desk or a wall a few pictures of beloved parents, there is often another Nantes, as soon as you notice it is revealed: that of the former ferry whose disappearance remains as an open wound that will not close.

bridges known as "ro" were born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he had to find a solution to the crossing of sea or river passes by pedestrians, wagons and early automobiles without impeding the navigation of vessels, which are still sailing. Then appeared the colossal steel structures designed by a brilliant French inventor Ferdinand Arnodin (1845-1924).

Puente Vizcaya in Portugalete

The first was built in Spain on the Nervion, 1893, between Portugalete and Las Arenas, about 10 km downstream from Bilbao. The

Nantes, opened October 28, 1903, was the fifth. He had been preceded by those of Bizerte (Tunisia, 1898), Rouen (1899) and Rochefort (1900). Marseille was built after (1905), as well as that of Brest (1908, actually one of Bizerte transferred to Britain). That of Bordeaux, began in 1910, was never completed.

In Nantes, we had to connect the dock to the Grave Prairie au Duc where were the major shipyards. A project was even consider a stop at the tip of the island gazebo, but the city had preferred a construction slightly downstream, facing the Rue de la Verrerie. To avoid the destruction of buildings, Quai de la Fosse, to build the imposing massive anchor cables that were holding the pylon on the right bank, Arnodin invented a new system of express ferry said counterweight and joints.

Every day, 5 hours from 30 to 20 h 30, the cable carrying the deck which overlooked the high waters of the Seine about 50 meters, transported from one bank to another up to 6000 pedestrians per hour.

But the development of the automobile more readily accepted without waiting for a detour bridges where traditional upstream, the damage caused by the Second World War, and the costs of maintaining a work that became obsolete, condemned the ferry that could not save the crusade Nantais desperate love with their beautiful bridge. Closed December 31, 1954, he disappeared in 1958, the last car of 800 tons of scrap metal leaving the dock at Le Creusot Loire for October 7.

Why not rebuild the Transporter?

A group of Nantes, at the initiative of the architect Paul Poirier Nantes, proposes to construct a new bridge to ferry over the arm of the Madeleine. is a cross-cutting project, consensual, and especially not political says the architect. It would be torpedoed advance. It covers all the Nantais. It is a major project to help reconcile Nantes with its river.

Project of the Association of transshipment

To bring this concept of the twenty-first century, Paul Poirier created this year 2008, with Arnaud Biette, an economist and expert in industrial heritage, the Association transferred .
Association website: http://lestransbordes.fr

Passionate for many years by these remarkable works that were and are still in some places the bridges to ferry, I published several studies on some of them.

- Nantes . The Transporter , CMD Editions, 1996 (print).
- Charente-Maritime. The Transporter Rochefort, CMD Editions, 1998 (print).
- The ferries France, Bordeaux, Brest, Marseilles, Nantes, Rochefort Rouen , editions Alan Sutton, 2005.

Articles in journals:
- The Transporter Rochefort, in Picton, No. 179, September-October 2006.
- Bridges to ferry in Chasse-Marée, No. 201, December 2007.

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Montreuil-Bellay, a concentration camp during World War II

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The camp was organized along the lines so typical of the French administration, mixed ignonimie, corruption and laissez-faire .
Arthur Koestler, written between January and March 1941 about the camp of Le Vernet (Ariège), in The scum of the earth , page 168, Editions Charlot (Paris 7th), 1947.

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The 3rd edition of this book is no longer available, Wallada editions will come out in April or May 2011 a fourth edition which are added, among other documents, testimony from families that author has discovered, and especially the archives of religious Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who, from January 1942 to January 1945, voluntarily lived on mission inside the camp at Montreuil-Bellay to help the internees, mainly children . These records consist primarily of photographs, drawings and newspaper.
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edition can still be ordered on the site Wallada editions: http://www.wallada.fr/
Wallada has specialized for many years in publishing books on Gypsies and Gypsies. http://www.wallada.fr/nouveautes-2009-2010.html

A chance discovery ...
9 years after my arrival at Montreuil-Bellay

In 1980, I discovered that during the Second World War had raged a camp on the territory of my common for adoption. Following preliminary research in archives and with many survivors still at that time, I published it in 1983 editions Wallada first book on this subject which had hitherto not interested historian internment by France of its nomads in many concentration camps. Its title, A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.


Sigot Jacques and Françoise Mingot, its publisher, the site of the camp in 1982. On the right, the entrance to the underground prison camp (the "gnouf).

was the first time what was considered the story of a French concentration camp for Gypsies in the terminology of the time. Followed the study of other camps and the publication of this work in a special issue of Studies Gypsies (No. 2 / 1995): 1939-1946 France: The internment of Gypsies .
had been successively victims of this camp of Montreuil-Bellay throughout the conflict: the English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians Commonwealth of Gypsies (then called "nomads"), tramps Nantes, local collaborators, the Russian "White", German civilians (mostly women) and who married Dutch Nazis.
This first edition caused a large and rich exchange of correspondence which encouraged the publication in Wallada Pathways and a second book in 1994: These barbed forgotten by history. A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.

I want to thank the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, of Paris, and especially Sister Odile, who put at my disposal in 2007 all documents written by the sisters of the Congregation. They had, for four years, voluntarily shared the lives of internees, and sleeping in a hut within the grounds of electrified barbed wire.

These panels, written The Association for AMCT ( Friends of the Memory of the Gypsy camp Montreuil-Bellay ), created in order to save the ruins of the old camp remains endangered, summarize thirty years of struggle to remember a story often distorted or obscured.

Jacques Sigot, August 2008

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Zurich on 11 November and 6 December 2008, OJ

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Encounter with History ... in such a pretty city.