Toussenel Who runs the place, at the top of the Avenue du Pont Napoleon, difficult to imagine that this entry in the old town is not very old. One has to only look at the foot of houses that border it and find several more or fewer steps before entering the ground floor to find that something has changed.
dotted yellow arrows: Steps leading to ground floor. full yellow arrow: Primitive Rock cafe under the old Moreau.
This place has only existed since 1772. Previously, we arrived at Saumur on the right bank of Thouet, and not the other shore as now. A street leading from the Porta Nuova to the Porte Saint-Jean where they continued to Thouars.
Skip To Thouet. From yesterday to today
In the Middle Ages, a traveler coming down the street from Angers Goat, found at the bottom of the hill a pedestrian or carting arrived via Saumur Le Coudray-Macouard. Both crossed the Thouet by a ford upstream of the Tower of Boëlle. So either they climbed into the upper town by the Rue du Tertre, between the castle and market square, or they went around the escarpment at the foot of the Ardennes to continue to Thouars and Loudun.
the fifteenth century, the lords built a line parallel bridges to ford.
Aligned Two bridges joining the two banks based on a central island. Right bank, the bridge between the docked Boëlle tower and a toll station, the Auberge des Isles today, not shown above. (Painting on a beam of the House Dovall) There remain several more ruined arches cons and the left bank of the pillars in the river bed.
When these successive bridges collapsed in 1577, a ferry - it was then charriere - transshipped pedestrians and carts from one bank to another at the Moulin de la Porte. 
On the left of this drawing of Gaignières of 1699, the ferry that went from the left bank at the foot of the Thouet mill of the castle, right bank. Former median docking of the left bank charriere Thouet.
in 1710 was finally decided to build a new bridge at the site of the present, but leaning to the left bank. After crossing, we gained the upper city along the property of fishmeal and borrowing the moat to reach the place des Ormeaux after crossing the Fountain Gate now completely disappeared.
map dated from 1772 indicating the crossing of Thouet before the drilling of the ramp. - A: Entry Bridge (1710) left bank for travelers from Angers or Saumur.
- B: Bypass fishmeal.
- C: Former door Fontaine. Moat of the street was now lower than the current one.
- D: Place des Ormeaux.
- E: New Toussenel place. Laflèche to the right leads to the Porte Saint-Jean Thouars and Loudun to win.
It was pierced in 1772 as the boom of the Napoleon Avenue Bridge that allowed direct access to the closed city. To soften the slope, we lowered the top to the Hotel in London, before which we find the original soil. Hence all these steps lead to the ground floor reminiscent of the original level still visible in the bedrock of the old coffee Moreau.
The bridge collapsed in 1710 turn into 1798, causing the building in 1810, the current bridge called Napoleon, this time in the middle of the bed Thouet.
On 29 August 1944, this new bridge was destroyed in turn by the Germans who fled the region before the advancing Allies. A crossing was equipped Thouet slightly upstream the floor of the Hall from the mill but the bridge, badly arranged, was taken by the first flood of the River. A gateway stronger and better secured adjoining the bridge was Napoleon. She served until February 10, 1948, the date of the inauguration of the rebuilt structure. We took advantage of its reconstruction to enlarge.
"march in step," he told is the entrance to the temporary footbridge adjoining the ruined bridge Napoleon since August 1944. Passersby and motorists who have to do in the old town, or who have chosen to pass through rather than take the modern deviation, see these steps. They have a story you know now.
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