Remarkable places and houses

• Monument to lost sailors

  

  Place Levoyer, 1948, shaped like a signal station; rare this far inland. Since 1984 it holds the remains of sailors from the ship Le Juste, wrecked in 1759. A ceremony every 1 November.

• Le Pendule

  

  Roman Signer, 2009. A work from the Estuaire biennial on a former concrete plant: a clock with no hands that stops when the wind rises.

• The marina

  

  Opened in 1980 in the “trou à Lisette”, threatened by silt, saved by a dredger the residents nicknamed “Shadock”.

• The dredger

  

  It keeps the harbour from silting up. Residents nicknamed it Shadock.

• Sailors’ Virgin

  

  At the end of quai Surcouf, on its pedestal, behind a low fence. Raised in 1865 for a jubilee, under the name “Star of the Sea”.

• Place Lisette Alvarice Janbier

  

  Officially place Jean-Bart. In 2002 a residents’ group renamed it after an imaginary heroine. It has carried both names since.

• Cour du Miracle

  

  A name given by the residents. The painter Yves Marion (Prix de Rome) lived there.

• Maison des Isles

  

  The neighbourhood house, opened in 2001 at the end of allée Choëmet.

• Beaurivage

  

  A sandy beach and open-air café from the 1920s to after the war, where people came by Roquio to swim on Sundays.

• Vanished streets and names from elsewhere

  Rue du Pacifique, rue de Plymouth, place du Poisson-Sec… and first names brought back from voyages: Zénaïde, Lodoiska, Amazélia, Pacifique.

Sources: Rezé Histoire no. 97 (April 2026), “3 walks to understand Trentemoult”, Rezé Histoire association – rezehistoire.fr. Texts rewritten by trentemoult.com; for more, get the magazine.