Honore de Crémont

Born in 1731 and died towards 1800, Honore de Crémont was directing island Bourbon of 1764 with 1784. As such, it took part in several forwardings on the Piton of the Furnace and was illustrated by a policy of installation which modified amply the organization of Saint-Denis, the principal city.

Biography

Honore de Crémont is useful like writer of the king in the squadron of the count d' Aché. In 1766, he becomes thereafter police chief of the navy to the island of France then first adviser within the superior councils of this island and Bourbon.

Some month later, Honore de Crémont takes part in the truly scientific first equipped which leaves the Barrel, in the current commune of Saint-Philippe. At the same period, he is the host of Jacques-Henri Bernardin of Saint-Pierre during the stay of this one in Bourbon. There will remain his friend until the end of his life. More in north, it makes undertake the Pavage way now called Chemin of the English or Crémont way. The operation is finished in 1775.

Remain that it is especially the reorganization of the urban diagram of Saint-Denis which monopolizes more the attention of Honore de Crémont. Thus, it embellishes the streets and tries to organize the distribution of the water of the Chef-lieu. By doing this, it runs up however against the anarchistic character of the development of the popular quarters to increasing demography and thus decides to fix new limits at the city.

Saint-Denis is delimited there:

By the street of the Landing stage, today street of Nice, in north.
By the grounds of the Pitou heirs in the east.
By the rampart now traversed by the Lacaussade boulevard in the west
By the called Dauphine street from now on street of General-of-Gaulle in the south. It occurs with Field-Flowered to finish at the top of the Rampes Ozoux.

In 1777, following this plan, Honore de Crémont makes trace five new streets in this city and a whole to them a name of Saint allots - among them, the street Holy-Anne and the street Sainte-Marie. Moreover, it makes build a market in Saint-Denis with the angle of the current street Jean-Chatel and street of the Church.

It is in addition at the origin of the transfer of current the Jardin of the State of the bottom of the Rivière Saint-Denis to the district of the Source, a transfer which was essential because of the favorable conditions Climat ic. It is known that it tried to create another neighbouring garden but that it never reached that point.

Posterity

A street of Saint-Denis currently bears the name of Honore de Crémont.

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