The road of forty pennies is the Surnom formerly given to a portion of the Trunk road 13, now displaced in secondary road, in its crossing of the Yvelines (France) between Mantes-the-Pretty Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer and . The origin of this nickname remains enigmatic.

The layout

This Road, long approximately 40 km, entirely located on left bank of the Seine, follows the cord of a broad loop of the river, crossing directly through the countryside. That gives him an animated profile, in Russian mountains, in its median part. To part of Saint-Germain, it crosses successively Chambourcy, Maladrerie of Poissy, Orgeval, Morainvilliers, Ecquevilly, the Flins-on-Seine, Aubergenville, Épône, the Wall-on-Seine and Mantes-the-City.

It is a two-track road, with some crenels of going beyond to three ways, except in the crossings of Orgeval and Aubergenville where it is partially arranged in 2 X 2 ways. Exit of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer with Orgeval, it irrigates an important retail park as one often finds some at the exit of the agglomerations. In this urbanized sector, circulation dense and is often encumbered there.

Beyond the exchanging with the highways A13 and A14 and of the crossing of Orgeval, it preserved a more rural character, more especially as the modern layout avoids the center of the agglomerations. Between Wall and Mantes, it skirts the Seine in a tightened space or fit also the railway (Paris-Rouen line) and the highway of Normandy.

On the administrative level, this road is today a secondary road, which carries the number D 113, except the section ranging between the post of Épône (intersection with the road coming from Rambouillet) and the Épône-Gargenville exchanger of the highway where it is numbered D 191. This last number is that of the axis Corbeil-Mantes-the-Pretty via Rambouillet.

History

At the XVIIIe century, the normal route of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer to Mantes-the-Pretty followed Right Bank of the Seine, via Meulan. It was the “low road of Normandy”, (in opposition to the “high road” which passed by the plate of the Vexin between Pontoise and Rouen, according to the current trunk road 14). The direct cross-piece via Épône was then simple a Chemin. The building work of the road began in 1772 and is completed a score of years later during the Revolution.

Administratively, this way took under the Revolution the name of “secondary road of 4th class n° 19”. It became successively “royal road of 3rd class n° 19” under the Restoration, then “trunk road n° 190” under IIe République (1848), then “imperial road n° 190” under the Second Empire and took again its name of “trunk road n° 190” under IIIe République.

In 1951, it became “trunk road 13” exchanging its number with that of the route of Right Bank via Meulan. Finally in 1976, it is partially displaced in “secondary n° 113” between the highway exchanger of Orgeval and Mantes-the-Pretty road.

Origin of the name

A booklet of the HISCREA identifies some possible origins for the usual name given to the road. The register of the deliberations of the town hall of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer quotes it in 1835. Between 1827 and 1853, the National Ateliers remunerated forty pennies the daily work of the workmen . And thus in the years 1830, the necessary inhabitants of all the Election of Mantes received an daily allowance of forty pennies for the transport of materials intended for the maintenance of the road . But in addition, Forty pennies represented the value of estimate of the surface meter (m ²) of ground exproprié for the alignment of the road .

See too

• Trunk road 13
• secondary Road 113
• Highway of Normandy

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