{"id":1811,"date":"2008-12-09T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/12\/09\/lhistoire-dun-trou-exceptionnel\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:36:59","slug":"lhistoire-dun-trou-exceptionnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/09\/lhistoire-dun-trou-exceptionnel\/","title":{"rendered":"L’histoire banale d’un trou exceptionnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montr\u00e9al n’ayant pas \u00e9t\u00e9 planifi\u00e9e au milieu du 19\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, les perc\u00e9es visuelles qui aboutissent sur quelque chose d’int\u00e9ressant sont assez rares. Il y a, bien entendu, la rue McGill College, qui s’ouvre sur le campus de McGill, le pavillon des arts, le r\u00e9servoir McTavish et le Mont-Royal. Il y a aussi la rue St-Urbain, qui plonge vers le Vieux-Montr\u00e9al et laisse entrevoir la basilique Notre-Dame ainsi que les \u00e9difices Duluth et Aldred<\/a>. Ou le\u00a0boulevard\u00a0De Lorimier, qui semble galoper vers\u00a0le pont Jacques-Cartier (qui n’est visible au bout de la rue que parce qu’il n’est pas align\u00e9 \u00e0 la grille montr\u00e9alaise)\u00a0ou encore\u00a0l’avenue du Mont-Royal qui\u00a0donne l’impression, le soir,\u00a0de se\u00a0d\u00e9rouler comme un tapis depuis la montagne jusqu’au tr\u00e8s surr\u00e9el\u00a0et solennel Stade Olympique illumin\u00e9- un peu comme la route qui m\u00e8ne jusqu’\u00e0 la Tour d’Ivoire dans l’Histoire sans fin. Ces points de vue\u00a0magnifiques sur la ville ont tous \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0mis en carte postale\u00a0par les chasseurs de clich\u00e9s, je m’abstiendrai donc de les illustrer de nouveau.<\/p>\n

Mais il y a aussi des perc\u00e9es visuelles plus discr\u00e8tes, des trous qu’on\u00a0ne per\u00e7oit que si l’on est attentif, et qui nous racontent un peu l’histoire de la ville si on prend la peine de les examiner en d\u00e9tail. Ils sont parfois le fruit du hasard, mais leur existence m\u00eame, dans une ville comme Montr\u00e9al qui s’est d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re assez chaotique, r\u00e9v\u00e8le le plus souvent une trame ou une permanence quelconque que ni le d\u00e9veloppement, ni la topographie, ni le temps\u00a0n’ont su d\u00e9vier. Celle-ci en est une.<\/p>\n

Ce trou \u00e0 travers la ville – et \u00e0 travers le temps – c’est la trou\u00e9e form\u00e9e par l’alignement presque parfait des rues St-Pierre, Bleury et de l’avenue du Parc. Je l’ai d\u00e9couverte une fois en revenant d’une longue marche le long des quais du Vieux-Port, me dirigeant vers la rue McGill. C’\u00e9tait \u00e0 l’\u00e9trange intersection que forment les rues St-Pierre, de la Commune et Marguerite d’Youville. J’ai tourn\u00e9 le coin pour remonter St-Pierre et \u00e7a m’a frapp\u00e9 tout de suite: mon regard ne se buttait \u00e0 aucun obstacle. Soudainement, je pouvais voir \u00e0 travers la muraille \u00e9paisse de pierres grises que forment les \u00e9difices de la vieille ville, \u00e0 travers le centre-ville, par-del\u00e0 la c\u00f4te \u00e0 Baron et le ghetto McGill jusqu’\u00e0 la colonne vert\u00e9brale de l’\u00eele, jusqu’\u00e0 l’endroit ou l’avenue du Parc cesse de monter le versant sud-est de la montagne pour redescendre vers le Mile-End, vers le pays des hipsters, des souvlakis et des synagogues.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tr\u00e8ve de grandiloquence. Pour faire une histoire courte, la rue Bleury existe – selon ce que j’ai pu trouver – depuis au moins 1801, et a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 align\u00e9e \u00e0 la rue St-Pierre. En fait, Bleury \u00e9tait l’extension extra-muros de la rue St-Pierre et menait jusqu’\u00e0 la limite de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 -elle aussi align\u00e9e \u00e0 la rue\u00a0Bleury – de Lunn’s garden et de Allan’s garden. Il semblerait que l’avenue du Parc ait \u00e9t\u00e9 dessin\u00e9e d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment comme un prolongement de la rue Bleury – ou alors qu’elle ait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tablie pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment le long de cette limite de propri\u00e9t\u00e9. Quoiqu’il en soit, l’alignement demeure et on peut toujours apercevoir la cr\u00eate de Montr\u00e9al depuis la rue Notre-Dame. Cool, n’est-ce pas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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