Rue de Paris (Saint-Denis of the Meeting)

The street of Paris is the historical axis of Saint-Denis of the Réunion. Soft inclined, it binds the Jardin of the State to the Colonne of the Victoire who throne just opposite old the Town hall before being prolonged until the Indian Ocean under the name of Avenue of the Victoire.

In its high part, in the south, the street leaves a small place on which the entry of the Botanical garden gives and in the middle of which throne a column decorated of a Buste of François Gédéon Bailly de Monthion, a Major general of the First Empire born in Saint-Denis. From there, one can see with approximately 200 meters the seat of the General advice of the Meeting, otherwise called Palais of the Source. The automobile traffic reaches the place by the east via the street Général de Gaulle, an axis perpendicular to the street of Paris which constitutes one of the limits of the downtown area such as it was designed at the time colonial, according to a checkerboard plan .

While descending the street, the remarkable buildings follow one another, particularly of the left side, that is to say in the west. Thus, the évêché of the Meeting is on this side of the street, just like the main thing Musée of Saint-Denis, the Musée Leon Dierx. Baptized in the honor of Leon Dierx, Prince of the poets, it shelters an impressive collection of works having belonged to the merchant of art and galerist réunionnais Ambroise Vollard. Another cultural institution, the Artothèque is sheltered in a joint building. Low, one also meets along the same pavement the regional Conservatoire of music as well as the Town hall of Saint-Denis, a building painted in yellow and on the grids of which from now on photographs are exposed.

On the other side of the street, in the east, a reference mark is the outlet of the street Maréchal Leclerc, another axis perpendicular to the street of Paris which as for him is made recognizable by its pedestrian character and the white Minaret of the Mosquée Noor-E-Islam, that it shelters. In the angle that both form streets coils the Villa Déramond-Bars, a villa of a great patrimonial interest which is the native house of the former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre. Low the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of the Meeting is.

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