Has anyone heard of L'ecole de jeune la fille in Evreux-Fauville?
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I was stationed at Evreux in '57-'58 and lived at La Madeleine -- a name I had completely forgotten and could not remember until this thread reminded me. I remember that friends' little girls went to a French public school - probably the one that's mentioned here - and that they took kids as young as four or five. As I remember it, they sat there bewildered at first but in a week or two they were speaking French as if they had grown up French.
I have a question: I can't find where La Madeleine was on Google Maps, although I bet I could find it if I were driving from the base after retreat.( I also can't imagine those high-quality buildings actually survive.) Can anyone tell me how to find it on GoogleMaps?
I have a question: I can't find where La Madeleine was on Google Maps, although I bet I could find it if I were driving from the base after retreat.( I also can't imagine those high-quality buildings actually survive.) Can anyone tell me how to find it on GoogleMaps?
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PoloniusMonk, on the Geoportail website, using "Madeleine" in the address box and Evreux as the town, I found a rue Madeleine Renaud and a Cote de la Madeleine.
http://www.geoportail.fr/visu2D.do?ter=metropole
http://www.geoportail.fr/visu2D.do?ter=metropole
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Thanks, Coquelicot, but those streets don't seem to have anything to doi with the place I'm looking for. I vaguely remember the La Madeleine housing area at Evreux being NW of the city, but I may be totally wrong. All I remember clearly is driving W from the base on Rte National 13 to the town, then going through a little bit of built-up (bakery on the L - no smiles in there) then I think through a rural area for awhile, then turning R and passing a row of houses on the L just before coming to LM, itself apparently carved out of small woods. Of course, Evreux, now >50,000 people, was much smaller then, I think it had only about < 20K, maybe less (I thin I remembered it being about the size of Montpelier, VT, but that only had 12 or 14K people then) so I imagine Evreux has swallowed up some of that rural land. The LM houses, "guarantee housing", were guaranteed to the builders to be 90% tenanted for, I think, ten years (but maybe it was a little more), so they were not built to last. The yards were, I think, volcanic rubble; if there had ever been topsoil there it had been removed by the builder. I was amazed to see a nice green lawn in front of a house exactly like mine, even years after I left in '57.
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This is for PoloniusMonk: my family lived in base housing from 56-58. It was located on Mont St. Michel. If you do a search, you'll be able to locate it on a map. Hope that helps. Also hope you are still checking this website! We went to elementary school on base. Don't remember what year (58, I think), when a new school was built near base housing. We used to love exploring the woods nearby. We had a great view of the town of Evreux below us; we called it "the pretty site".
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