Rue de Siam

The street of Siam is the principal artery of the downtown area of Brest. It owes its name with the unloading of three ambassadors of in this port, the June 18th 1686. Accompanied by six mandarins, three interpreters, two secretaries and a score of servants, responsible for many present, they came to return visit to the king Louis XIV to Versailles. Come by sea, they had travelled on board the Bird and Malignant the .

Borrowing from foot the street Saint-Pierre to go to the hotel same name, they filled with wonder the Residents of Brest which renamed their street. To note that the street of Siam of before the Second world war was much narrower than the street of Siam of today.

It is quoted by Jacques Prévert in his poem Barbara.

Reputation

The street of Siam is known sailors of the whole world. Those which made stopover at least once in Brest, remember all their life this street to the name short, easy to retain. When one makes coastal traffic along the African coasts , it is very often that one meets the Breton ones, frameworks of the commercial port, local employees, parachuted far from their native Brest, evoking the street of Siam like others the Eiffel Tower or the Acropolis.

Recent history

The street of Siam starts on a side of the Pont of Recouvrance which spans Penfeld. Recouvrance is popular quarters, that of the Brest old man who contrasts with the street of Siam where, in the years 1950-1960, were the shops and the smart coffees of the city. In the bottom of the street of Siam, there were on the right the coffee of the Sword and on the left the restaurant the Antilles. The candidates and officers of all nationalities took aperitif with the Sword then crossed the street of Siam to go to dine in the Antilles.

See too

External bond

  • Street of Siam in 1900 panoramic
  • of the street of Siam

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