. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE PLACE DROUET D ERLON, AFTER THE WAR The Belfry of the Church of St. Jacques no longer exists. 71. THE SUBE FOUNTAIN, IN THE PLACE DROUET D ERLONSeen from the Rue Bnirette tin ruins). The Promenades, greatly damaged by the war, have sometimes beenwrongly attributed to Le Notre. Their designer was a Rheims gardener, Jeanle Roux. Commenced in 1731, they were finished and extended in 1787. Theywere formerly reached by the Gates of Mars and Vesles, but preferably bythe Promenade Gate specially opened in the ramparts in 1740 and inauguratedby Louis X
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . THE PLACE DROUET D ERLON, AFTER THE WAR The Belfry of the Church of St. Jacques no longer exists. 71. THE SUBE FOUNTAIN, IN THE PLACE DROUET D ERLONSeen from the Rue Bnirette tin ruins). The Promenades, greatly damaged by the war, have sometimes beenwrongly attributed to Le Notre. Their designer was a Rheims gardener, Jeanle Roux. Commenced in 1731, they were finished and extended in 1787. Theywere formerly reached by the Gates of Mars and Vesles, but preferably bythe Promenade Gate specially opened in the ramparts in 1740 and inauguratedby Louis XV. in 1744, on his return from Flanders. The Promenades werefirst called Cours Le Pelletier (the name of the Intendant of Champagne, whoapproved the plans), then Cours Royal, after the passage of Louis XV. Theywere encroached upon by the railway station, built in 1860. In the centre of the Promenades, opposite the station, in the Square Colbert,laid out by the landscape gardener Vare in I860, is a statue of Colbert. Take the Rue Thiers, which begins at the Square Colbert and leads to theH6tel-de-Ville.
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