Old roads never named, new arteries serving real estate projects or even equipment whose name was not sufficiently loaded with symbolism: a series of deliberations taken by Fréjus elected officials during the last municipal council will require the updating of the urban nomenclature .
Three streets now have names and a roundabout has been renamed. All within the Caïs district. Here are the details of these odonymic modifications.
Captain Charles-N’Tchoréré roundabout
Today called the Curebéasse roundabout, the roundabout located at the intersection of the RD4, the avenue du Musée des troupes de Marine and the rue des Combattants in North Africa, has been renamed the captain’s roundabout Charles-N’Tchoréré to pay tribute to this career soldier who served in the French army during the two world wars.
Enlisted in 1916 among the Senegalese riflemen, he demonstrated his valor and was named sergeant. At the end of military training at the overseas officers’ school in Fréjus, where he graduated as major in 1922, he became, on March 24, 1923, one of the rare Africans to receive officer’s epaulettes (second lieutenant) on a native basis. In 1933, he was promoted to captain and assigned to the 1is Senegalese rifle regiment in Saint-Louis (Senegal) where he also commands the school for troop children. When war was declared in 1939, he asked to leave for the Somme front with a battalion of Gabonese volunteers. On June 7, 1940, his unit was surrounded in Airaines by the Wehrmacht and forced to surrender after several hours of combat. While the German soldiers separate the white prisoners from the blacks, considered by the Nazis as subhuman, the captain rebels and is executed with a bullet to the head.
Captain Mademba’s Impasse
The cul-de-sac located in particular serving the Domaine Verdania real estate program (delivered in 2022) in the extension of Impasse Missiri, had not been named. This 100m long route was named in homage to Captain Abd-el-Kader Mademba. This is the soldier who is said to have initiated the project to build the Missiri mosque in 1928. Inspired by the Sudanese mosque of Djenné, it was intended to create an atmosphere capable of curing the “homesickness” of the soldiers of the colonial empire.
Impasse de la Rhyolite and rue du Porphyre
In order to facilitate access for security services, mail distribution or even allow GPS location of two unnamed roads adjoining rue du Malbousquet and serving numbers from 731 to 781, these were named impasse de Rhyolite and rue du Porphyre and in reference to two volcanic rocks present in the Estérel. The first, the majority in the massif, gives it its reddish coloring. Porphyry can, for its part, refer to red porphyry, also contributing to the color of the Massif, or to blue porphyry, also called estérellite, exploited in the Grands Caous quarry.
