When Trentemoult shared one of Rezé's three public phone booths

The telephone appeared in France about 140 years ago, yet in 1965 only 2.5 million of 50 million households were listed in the directory. The Amis de Rezé, in their newsletter, leafed through the 1950s directory: seven doctors, five pharmacies, a notary, four hotels… and very few subscribers. For practically all Rezé residents, a telephone was reachable only from three public booths, in Pont-Rousseau, Ragon and Trentemoult, from 8 am to noon and 2 to 6 pm, except on Sundays. Rezé Mensuel retold the story in March 2020, a small look back at an era when you crossed the village to make a call.