The Angers stoneheart

Designed to be at the core of the city life, the Ralliement square, even enlivened with trees in pots, is nothing more, at a time of the day propicious to gatherings and at a period of the year auspicious for long evenings, than a geometrical figure with a flat surface soiled by cigarettes buts, marks of gums and wrapping papers... 

The disappointment of a part of inhabitants is moreover emphasized by the mobile kiosk set up in the middle of the site inviting people to take advantage of down town and putting forward that "Angers becomes lively in Ralliement square". That one is far from being overcrowed. 

Outside the cafes, customers look quite lonely and do not pay attention to the pedestrians to the contrary of most of those sitting at terraces. The architecture of the place is not to discover few by few. A single glance and one or two seconds are sufficient to notice the coolness of that anonymous place. One of the trees is collapsing and the boards indicating flats are "for sale" add a note of dreariness. 


The babbling of the water flowing from the fountains has not for the cafes customers the charm that such places engender when flowers and greenery are set up. As cows in the field, these can only watch the trolley go.