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HISTORY BORDEAUX: history of the "rue Sainte Catherine" of Bordeaux
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 Sainte Catherine Street History |
This long shopping street of Bordeaux became pedestrian in 1977. Near the place of the comedy rose the door Médoc wine which was destroyed in 1772. She was always very frequented. Formerly, the butchers and the tripe butchers of Bordeaux had no right to sell somewhere else their goods. The millers came there to bring their flour since the mills of the "jalles" of Blanquefort and surroundings.
The construction of the gallery of Bordeaux was begun in 1833 with the impulse of his architect Durand and opened its railings to the public in 1834. In the time, they were four owners arriving from Mexico where from they avoided the Revolution: Torre, Yrigoyen, Gimet and Caillavet.
By going down the street, we can then discover the chapel Saint Catherine, inaugurated in 1048 by the knights of the order of Malta. Formerly, this Chapel soaked in the mud of semi-aquatic Bordeaux. To avoid that people are muddied, we wanted to pave the ground in front of the building but for lack of means to realize the works, we sold the furniture of the place.
There are many famous people who lived, in the course of the years, this inescapable in street: Saige, the prosecuting attorney, mayor of the city in 1791, the architect Thiac, Peixotto, Montesquieu, the painter Gaultier.
At the time of the Sling, the street saint-Catherine was a real battlefield. Two parties existed then in Bordeaux: that of "Ormistes" (they supported the uprising against Mazarin at instigation of their leader Dureteste) and that of the "Well-intentioned" (people of the Chapeau-Rouge and Saint-Rémi who represented the side of the order and the peace). The result was 400 deaths.
Today the "rue Sainte Catherine" with its 1,2 km is the longest shopping street of Europe.
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