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Pass the course by the street Henri - IV. Notice to the passage them mascarons (masks of comedy) and console (balcony supports) of real estate of the street. To the pediment that crowns the building of the n° 1, a fun rebus reminds the name of the proprietor : Sir Mined. Descend the staircase giving on the place of the Oratory and borrow the street Clemenceau. Make a stop near the bedside of the chapel of the Oratory. More far stop you on the facade of the museum of the Beautiful - Arts (end XIX, century), decorated of allegorical statues representing arts (sculpture, architecture, etc. ). Continue your road until the garden of Plant them. On the portal, you will observe the medallion of the poétesse Elisa Mercoeur,nicknamed & quot; the Muse nantaise & quot. Its collection of poetries was admired by Lamartine and Chateaubriand and published from its eighteen years. Alas, it was taken very young, to twenty - six years, by the phtisie. Cross the portal and take the alley to straight where trains the chest of the famous Ecorchard. Director of the garden of Plant them during forty years, it is going to beautify it, to enlarge it and to organize it. It stung by an adder in the course
of a herborisation. The first stèle raised to its memory disparut during the occupation and was replaced by this smelted chest and sculpted in 1982 for the centenary of its death. Pass the alley of the Music that makes face in the chest and take the second alley on the right. Pass the bridge on the right to admire the baigneuse to the mirror. Resume immediately to left and ascend the alley chest of Jules Verne, work of the sculptor Georges Bareau. The immense literary success of the writer secured is reminded by two statues richly dressed children reading one of its novels. Pass greenhouses until the main portal. Resume then the street Clemenceau where, to height of the high school of the same name, very exactly to the n° 9 an 13, you will see again statues of virgins buried in niches. More far to the n & quot; 15 and 17, do not lack pediments armoriés. Ascend the long of the chapel of the Oratory. Appreciate the beautiful facades of real estate, and in the pediment of the n° 14 the Virgin in majesty. Redescend the course Saint-André the long of the street Sully. Stop - you to the n° 2 on the house of chapter of the cathedral. Under the great balconies, the central medallion in wrought iron draws the key of Saint - Stone and the sword of Saint - Paul. To the n°4 see the Christ of the Sacredness - Heart. And to the n° 6 (incomplete building) a half - pediment and the Virgin above the door. This circuit finishes there but you will be able to complete it while to be going to admire the & quot; scandalous & quot; statue of the Victory (by the sculptor Guillaume) emigrated near the Hotel of Region on the island Beaulieu.