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to Brussels. LILLE.
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Cafés-Brasseries. Jean, Rue Faidherbe 2;
street; Bellerue, de la Pe
Gra nde-Place. a Bc
Cabs: per drive 11/, fr., per hr. 13/, fr., each succeeding hr. 11/2 fr.
Tramways traverse all the principal streets (fare from 10 c. upward). —
Steam Tramway to Roubaiz (p.81) ini hr.; fa 0 or 50c., return 1 fr. or 80c.
Post and Telegraph Office, Place de la République (Pl. E,5) and at
the station. F que = 7 .
British Vice-Consul, J. Z. Walker, Rue des Stations 95. — American
Consular Agent, Christopher J. King, Rue des Stations 97.
English Church (P1. F, 5), Rue ‘Waiteau , Boulevard de la Liberté
Lille, originally L’Isle, Flem. Ryssel, the chief town of tk he Fre Trench
Département du Nord, with 205, 600 i in ras formerly capital
of Flanders, but was taken b XIV » and was finally
awarded to France by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. It is a fortress
of the first cla and is situated in a well-irrigated and fertile plain
on the Defile, a navy
Café du Grand-H6tel, same
ane de Strasbourg, all in |the
Moderne, Ta
Zable river with which numerous canals are
connected. Lille is a very important manufacturing place. Its sta ple
commodities are linen and woollen goods, cotton, cloth, ‘Lisle
thread’, machinery, oil, sugar, and chemicals. The picture-gallery
(p. 6) in itself repays a visit to Lille.
From the station the handsome Rue Faidherbe leads aoe to
the Place du Thédtre (Pl. F, 3), named after the Grand- Théat
which was burned down in 1903. Thence the Rue des Manneliers
runs to the left, passing the Bourse (Pl. F, 3), the court of which
contains a bronze statue of Napoleon I. by Lemaire (1854), to the
GranvDE Pracg, the centre of the old town. A Column (‘la Déesse’)
in the centre commemorates the defence of the town a
Austrians in 4792. On th f the Place opposite the
Manneliers rises the Hétel de Ville (Pl. F, 4), erected in (347-59
in the Renaissance style.
ainst the
ving the Hétel de Ville we cross the | large Place in an oblique
n to visit the old town. We proceed through the Rue du
Marché-aux-From the Rue Lepelletier, the Rue Basse (tight),
and the Rue du G irque (first to the lef ft) to Notre Dame-de-la- ee
(Pl. E, F, 3), a church in the ;
the
yle of the 13th cent., designed by
London architects H. Clutton and W. I Burges, and
0. The building was planned on so ambitious a scal e that little
has been completed. — The Rue Ba leads hence to the left to
the Lycée Faidherbe (P). F, 3), which contains a Natural History
Asean (adm. 10-5), and to the right to the Rue Es squermoise
Cr 3), one of the principal streets of the old town. — The
cen ¢ church of Ste. Catherine (Pl. E, 3) contains an *A \tar-piece
by Rut bens, representing the saint’s martyrdom.
The Threail fonts Boulevard de la Liberté (Pl. D, £, F, 4, 5) forms
the boundary between the old town and the new quarters built in
the modern Parisian style. In the Place de la République are, to
the N.W., the spacious cele (Pl. EH, 4,5), and, opposite, the
Palais des Beaux-Arts (Pl. F, 5), a striking edific ce, designed by
Bérard aud Dalmas, and ae in 1892.
begun in
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