THE PLACE DROUET D'ERLON, AFTER THE WAR
The Belfry of the Church of St. Jacques no longer exists.
THE SUBÉ FOUNTAIN, IN THE PLACE DROUET D'ERLON
Seen from the Rue Buirette (in ruins).
The Promenades, greatly damaged by the war, have sometimes been wrongly attributed to Le Nôtre. Their designer was a Rheims gardener, Jean le Roux. Commenced in 1731, they were finished and extended in 1787. They were formerly reached by the Gates of Mars and Vesles, but preferably by the Promenade Gate specially opened in the ramparts in 1740 and inaugurated by Louis XV. in 1744, on his return from Flanders. The Promenades were first called Cours Le Pelletier (the name of the Intendant of Champagne, who approved the plans), then Cours Royal, after the passage of Louis XV. They were 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 Varé in 1860, is a statue of Colbert.
Take the Rue Thiers, which begins at the Square Colbert and leads to the Hôtel-de-Ville.
THE "SQUARE COLBERT" IN THE MIDDLE OF THE "PROMENADES"
The Entrance to the Station is just opposite this "Square."