The Moreuilloise association Mémoire du Santerre offered, in the afternoon of this Saturday, January 18, a conference by the historian Hervé Bennezon on the subject “The breath of the vast world in the shadow of the port of Moreuil (13th-19th centuries). century) “.
In front of a large and very attentive audience (around sixty people) gathered in the basement of the Moreuil cultural center, the Samarian academic, specialist in social and cultural history in the modern era, revealed his numerous discoveries on the old infrastructure, which appeared in the 13th century on the course of the Avre: “ It was a very active port which today is largely forgotten by almost everyone. (…) » An important trade player with an international dimension, this port lasted until the 19th century, then falling into disuse following, above all, the arrival of the railway.
« In a locality which had 1,375 inhabitants in 1698, around a hundred adults lived directly from the inland waterway in Moreuil. »
According to a conjunction of beams, in particular the comparison of photographs, Hervé Bennezon supposes that the old port was located at the intersection of rue de Créqui and rue Gambetta, opposite the veterinary clinic.
An impressive figure delivered by Hervé Bennezon: “ In a locality which had 1,375 inhabitants in 1698, around a hundred adults lived directly from the inland waterway in Moreuil. »
In conclusion, ” the inland waterway lasted six hundred years, then declined ».
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