Countryside? Almost. This is Matelots neighbourhood and these houses will look like railway houses to most French people. Matelot is seaman. It is thought the neighbourhood is called this way because in the XVIIth century, seamen served on the nearby Grand Canal at the palace and lived here. They look like railway houses because there is a train station here, which is now a classification or marshalling yard that was heavily bombed by the Allies in 1944. Nearby was the base of the 5th engineering regiment, specialised in railway engineering until 2010.La campagne ? Presque. Voici des maisons du quartier des Matelots, qui ressemblent fort à des bâtiments ferroviaires. Pourquoi les matelots ? On dit que les matelots qui servaient sur le Grand Canal au château habitaient ici. De nos jours, il y a une gare de triage à proximité, qui fut sévèrement bombardée par les Alliés en 1944. Egalement dans le quartier, la caserne du 5è régiment du génie, dissous en 2010, qui était spécialisé dans le génie ferroviaire. Plus d'infos sur la gare par ici.
