The Association pour la Mémoire et l'Animation de l'Est d'Orléans (AMAE) offers visitors four tours to discover the East district of Orléans: the popular heritage, the heritage of the daily life of the inhabitants of the district.
This discovery tour concerns the old shops of rue Bellebat, Château-Gaillard, Gaston-Couté and Pellerine.
What an activity! Charcoal merchants, cabarers, haberdashery, grocery stores, hostess bar, but also rabbit skins and flea markets. All this around the rue de Bellebat, then one of the main suburbs The district has changed since the beginning of the 20th century, became urbanized, and experienced a major modification with the drilling of the Way G (avenue Jean-Zay, avenue des Droits-de-l'Homme) in the 1990s. Thus, there are no traces of some of the old businesses that were on the route of the G.d'Orléans, animated, among others by annual festivals.
The route (1h/2km - Easy to walk) is described in a booklet downloadable on the amae.eu website or that will be available on the stand of the association on the occasion of Rentrée en Fête (10 September 2023). The tour is guided by small panels that include at least a small text, sometimes an illustration. For some places, a QR Code refers to more elaborate content available on the association’s website.
These tours are intended for a wide audience: historical inhabitants who will remember old times and will be able to complete the information, newcomers who seek to better know the history of the places, enthusiasts of contemporary history, families, the curious.
Through these circuits, AMAE carries out its missions of creating links between the inhabitants and animating the neighborhood by collecting, organizing and disseminating information, testimonies and multiple documents from the inhabitants, supported by research at the metropolitan and departmental archives.
This project received financial support from the Development Fund for Associative Life.
This circuit does not invite to disturb the owners of the places indicated in the circuit. Thank you to respect their tranquility.