On sale, the former prison was coveted by developers.
Obviously the site is now less impressive. Disembodied, emptied of its 80 detainees, the former prison of 4 Street Dulamon is less chilling. However, there is always grates and bars, dungeons and cookers, unsanitary conditions, moisture on walls, loose paint. Everything is there, set in a past suspended, almost surreal.
Still. Gradually, as one sinks into the bowels of the building of 1800 m2, the past is back at the turn of a few details, surprisingly few of this claustrophobic prison. Escaped the vigilance on the back of a window sill, a tag sign a passage, in the days before freedom. "Keep my potos pesher" calls over the toilet another hand than we imagine releasable in a final goodbye solidarity. Some insults obviously some provocations. But as a primer, a measurement chart, multiplication tables. Or in this cooker, common cell with 17 or 18 detainees in times of overcrowding, some images of big guns on a wall. Yet another drawing of mine shafts paper, branch by branch, leaf after leaf. A boat, trees, a landscape, a face ... images of freedom.
So to distract developers a nothing impressed by the atmosphere convict, Stephanie Soler, Society of land and property valuation which manages the assets of the state and will visit the prison for sale, insists on the ante-past of the prison building. "Before being a prison, the site housed the Ursuline Convent. One can also exploit the image of the sixteenth century and the aesthetic of the building, "says the young woman. "Only after the Revolution, many convents have been converted into national property and prisons. "It was in 1807 that the walls welcoming young girls are transformed into a detention center exclusively for men opened in 1823.
Soon, a new page of history Mons will turn to the rhythm of shovels. And 4 Street Dulamon become a luxury residence in downtown with parking and amenities. Only the wooden door, classified, will be saved from the past bad memories.
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