Promenade Aristide Briand

Accessing it from the rue Aristide Briand (former rue de l'église), one goes along the salle Saint Martin built in 1933 by the Dijon architect E. Cornu, then two particular houses. This set, which stretches to the rue de la Prairie, occupies the site of the former church of Genlis around the primitive cemetery. It dates back to the XIIIth century and was destroyed in 1847-1849. The cemetery was transferred to its present location in 1885-1886. At even number 8, the rounded corner of the street with the parkway, a property opens up which then borders the parkway behind a long brick wall. One distinguishes à the interior two large bodies of housing and a vast park (it stretches north to the intersection of the Three Rivières).

&Eacute in 1774 by Henri de Maulbon d'Arbaumont (with materials from the old stronghold), the mansion was finally acquired in 1791 by a wealthy Genlis notable, wine merchant and municipal official, Denis Duborgia (1752-1827), who increased the estate.the tree-lined and flowered promenade, redesigned in 1995, agrarianizes the path along the Norges (name given to an arm of the original Tille) whose winding course had been rectified.The current dam dates from 1984. Until the 1950s, the water body thus created could take the place of a swimming pool.

From the washhouse built in the 1950s, the water was used as a swimming pool

From the washhouse built in 1876 and long active, it remains today the steps that descend to the river. At the end of the promenade, since 1953, there are two monuments to the city's dead: the one that commemorates the fight of Genlis on November 5, 1870 against the Prussians, towards the station; and the one that, inaugurated in 1925 in front of the old Jules Ferry school, commemorated the dead of the First World War, before also testifying for the following wars.