Les soirs d’été quand les terrasses des cafés et des restaurants sont combles, Il est encore plus difficile d’imaginer la longue halle en bois servant La maison du Canon, l’actuelle mairie a échappé à cette |
The “PLACE DU BOUFFAY”
Nowadays, on summer evenings the terraces of the cafés and restaurants are full and La Place du Bouffay is home to musical events, plays, markets, concerts, dances, Fest Noz. Formerly, four large Annual Fairs celebrating St. Luce, St. Jacques, Pentecost, and St. Matthew, as well as weekly markets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Elderly residents of La Roche will recall that in the same square a car mechanics garage, now home to an Epicerie Fine, had to move all his cars from the square to make way for the Thursday cattle market. It is difficult to imagine that in this same place there was a long wooden market Hall, above which was the “Auditoire », the centre of administration of the town under the Ancient Regime. During the Revolution, it became the “Tribunal Révolutionnaire” and site of the guillotine. The market hall was demolished in 1877. If you look carefully you will see that the place where the Market Hall was has a been marked out in two straight parallel lines in the paving stones of the square. |
carte postale ancienne colorisée toilée vers 1905-1910, Vue prise en 2018
avant l’incendie de 1935- Vve Boquel à La Roche-Bernard, éditeur