Monument on the Mall Aubelle
Monument inaugurated August 14, 1898.
Architect: MUIR, born Angers, of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts architect in Paris.
Sculptor: M. Porcher, born in Fontevaud, a student of the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, laureates of the show on the Champs Elysees.
The pyramid is square granite Bécon (Maine-et-Loire).
The medallions are made of bronze.
This monument was erected at the initiative of Emile Chevalier, born in Montreuil-Bellay January 29, 1861, director of a banking house that his mother had created in the town of Canton. Along with his professional work, he had a passion for history and had undertaken that its hometown, a task he would have completed if death had not won in 38 years, January 3, 1899.
The decision to erect this time was taken in 1896. The monument was declared a public utility by decree of Mr. President of the Republic dated 11 September 1897. Emile Chevalier successfully organized a national fund to cover the costs of the company and the inauguration took place, therefore, August 14, 1898 in a lavish ceremony presided by André Theuriet, the French Academy.
The four natives of the city and are honored :
- René Moreau (1587-1656), physician to Louis XIII and Louis XIV.
- Pierre Duret (1745-1825), first surgeon in chief of the Navy.
- Toussenel Alphonse (1803-1885), writer and naturalist.
- Dovall Charles (1807-1829), poet.
Text and photos: Jacques Sigot
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René Moreau (1587-1656)
Rene Moreau was born in 1587 in Montreuil-Bellay, where his father is a doctor, came to Anjou Following the Duke of Alençon which he is personal physician.
The boy was educated in Paris. First gift for literature, he changed lanes to be received Doctor of thirty-one years. He became one of the most famous practitioners of his time. Regius Professor at the Chair of Medicine and Surgery Faculty of Paris, he was appointed Grand Almoner of France. It appealed to him to choose a nanny for the dolphin. He attends Louis XIII in his last illness and took part in all consultations. In 1639, he treated the young Louis XIV in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Rene Moreau is that we owe the introduction into France of chocolate which he assessed value by reading the English authors.
Rene Moreau died in Paris October 17, 1656.
Main published works: The Precepts of the School of Salerno to stay healthy, bleeding in pleurisy, Angina and coenneuse laryngotomies. In his pamphlet entitled Defence, Faculty of Medicine of Paris against the slanderer, Theophrastus Renaudot, Faculty of Montpellier he attacked a fellow doctor born in Loudun, near his hometown, and founded the first French newspaper, Theophrastus Renaudot.
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Pierre Duret (1745-1825)
Pierre Duret, called in 1809, Ambroise Pare French Navy Broussais by the famous doctor, was born in Montreuil-Bellay November 5, 1745. His father, burdened with a large family, is a merchant, and gives his son an education more solid than brilliant and varied.
Six certificates bearing the stamp of the School of Paris, signed by MM. Professors, targeted and verified by MM. the school provost of Surgery, show that since 1762 until 1767, Pierre Duret followed with the greatest success and greatest accuracy, the anatomy course, surgery and deliveries provided by this school. At 22 years he conquered all the degrees
Too young to engage in civilian medicine, he went to Brest and is determined to enter the Marine Hospital as assistant surgeon ordinary. A contest opens in October 1768 he obtained a place of support maintained and receives a medal. In 1769, he boarded the ship Solitaire, commanded by Vicomte de Roquefeuille, but it too suffers from seasickness which he can not deliver. He was thinking to retire from the Navy when new considerations to the set yet. His boarding is another failure. It remains to earth, named demonstrator in January 1780. February 15, 1808, after going through all the intermediate grades, it finally became the first surgeon in chief of the Navy, until 1 July 1814, when he was admitted to retire. It is then a member of the Royal Academy. Louis XVIII gave him the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor.
He died in 1825 in Brest, where he had been as Councillor. Navy, the city almost entirely escorted her funeral procession. His name is given to a street in his adopted city.
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Toussenel Alphonse (1803-1885)
If Alphonse
Toussenel born in Montreuil-Bellay 17 March 1803, only because his father was appointed chief magistrate of the town by the Consulate in 1800. He left our town in 1806, when the father sends the Empire beyond the Rhine. After studying
painful " in this horrible prison called childhood the college, the young Alphonse discovers with enthusiasm the work of Charles Fourier, who marked her for life.
During the Revolution of 1830, he became a professional journalist, "a writer ministerial," as he says himself, ie editor appointed a diary in which he maintains opinions that are not always his. In 1841, Louis-Philippe appointed civil commissioner in Algeria, but there are conflicts with the military authority which he does not share the views, and resigned. The Parisian insurrection of 1848 and the proclamation of the Second Republic seem to meet his vows, but this turn of events disappointed him deeply, and he prefers to withdraw and isolate themselves in the midst of nature. He then wrote The Spirit animals, this long treatise of zoology passion that made him glory.
Toussenel Alphonse died April 30, 1885 at The Plasterer, forest of Fontainebleau. It is this spiritual writer ingenious and paradoxical.
Works: Jews Kings of the Epoch (1845), The Spirit of Beasts (1868), Work and idleness (1849), Tristia (1863), The World of Birds (1873). On
Alphonse Toussenel:
series of articles in regional newspapers, The New Republic Central West .
two hundred years ago was born Alphonse Toussenel , Jacques Sigot, Gavroche in No. 127
Should renaming the streets Toussenel? J. Sigot, in Gavroche No. 143 Pages
selected Alphonse Toussenel . J. Sigot, Gavroche in No. 143
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Dovall Charles (1807-1829)
Dovall Charles was born in Montreuil-Bellay June 23, 1807. His family occupies in the city large royal or municipal charges.
The young boy goes to college at Saumur, where he showed a keen taste for the literature prize for poetry that is created expressly for him. Completed his classical studies, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Poitiers. But the Muses away from the study and, under the pseudonym Pauline A. .., he published poems in journals.
Soon Dovall Charles leaves for Paris to find fame. Upon his arrival, yet it is grappling with the necessities of life. Obliged to devote themselves to works of jurisprudence, while writing in Le Figaro it is attached permanently as editor of the Journal of Salons published under four different names: The Sylph , Trilby , The Elf and The Follet. Our young Montreuillais, who lives in Rue de la Harpe, nevertheless continues to devote himself to poetry. One evening, Mr. Mirra, Director of Variety Theatre, does not accept its input. Dovall retaliates the next day by writing in the Leprechaun: Mr. Mirra, Mirra-perhaps harsh, but it will never Mirra beautiful. Do not forget that we are following the Revolution, and what Mr. Mirra, which in truth is not, fine, be angry. It causes Dovall duel and, after a few bungling reciprocal to the sword, the gun kills in an old redoubt Clignancourt.
The funeral was held Nov. 30 and May 8, 1830, a column of white marble was erected over his grave in the cemetery of Montmartre.
The complete edition of his works, The Sylph, Poems of the late Ch Dovall , published in Paris by Editions Ladvocat, Palais Royal, in 1830, with a foreword by Victor Hugo.
Stone Mill, located north of Mount Enclus (Kluisbergem) at the east of Kortrijk. 
