Place Godinot

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La place Jean-Godinot est une place de la commune de Reims, dans le département de la Marne, en région Grand Est.

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Situation et accès

Elle commence comme une allée avec un double rang de stationnement au centre et se continue en cercle autour de la fontaine.

Origine du nom

Elle rend hommage à Jean Godinot bienfaiteur qui fit construire de nombreuses fontaines pour la ville et ses habitants.

Historique

Elle porte ce nom au moins depuis 1843. Ancienne place Saint-Pierre.

Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire

Deux fontaines ont été érigées successivement à la gloire de Godinot, la première, en 1843, par Narcisse Brunette, dont le groupe en fonte est toujours visible à Tinqueux, avenue Bonaparte. La seconde, en 1903, est due au sculpteur Léon Chapelain (1855-1904). Comme la précédente, cette fontaine ne coule pas, et l’on peut répéter mot à mot ce qu’en 1885 Henri Jadart écrivait à son propos : « L’honneur qu’elle décerne à Godinot ne sera pleinement digne de lui qu’au jour où l’eau jaillira sans relâche, comme un bienfait permanent de ses libéralités ».

Bibliographie

Jean-Yves Sureau, Les rues de Reims, mémoire de la ville, Reims, 2002, p. 170-71. Prosper Tarbé, Reims, essais historiques sur ses rues et ses monuments, Res Comédit, Paris, 1994. Michel Thibault, Memoire en images Reims, Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, 2000. Cet article contient des extraits d'un document provenant du site La Vie rémoise qui autorise l'utilisation de son contenu sous licence GFDL..