Charles Trenet sang to us in "y'a d'la joie" that our famous Eiffel Tower had "jumped the Seine with joint feet" to go for a walk!
Well, she went to put her bags in the Sarthe, in Mamers!
There are many things in Mamers...
Located on the banks of the Dive, Mamers presents its former canvas hall, converted into a theatre after the virtual disappearance of the hemp industry, and its grain hall, opposite.
We can also mention his Convent of the Visitation and its cloister, but history, and French taxpayers, will remember the name of a former General Councillor of the canton of Mamers, then General Councillor of the Sarthe, then Senator, then Minister of Finance, to whom we simply owe the creation of the income tax, Joseph Caillaux !
(Note that it also appeared in the miscellaneous facts section. Indeed, his wife Henriette, very angry after the Figaro who had led a harsh campaign against her husband's politics, and who had published intimate letters, simply killed Gaston Calmette, director of the Figaro, with four gun shots! We knew how to live then!).
But, in addition to all this, there is... the Eiffel Tower!
Yes, the Eiffel Tower is on holiday in Mamers
Do you think these are elucubrations from the Unusual Great West?
Well, go to 26 Place de la République, in front of the Hotel du Cygne, and look up...
and you'll see the Eiffel Tower!
The Eiffel Tower is placed on the roof, on a scale of 1/100, and the story goes that a friend of the owner, who had really worked in Paris with Gustave Eiffel, had suggested that he make a replica to decorate his terrace!
Mairie de Mamers
Place de la République
72600 Mamers
Tél. : 02.43.31.50.00
mairie.mamers@wanadoo.fr
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