Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library

  • Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library
  • Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library
  • Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library
  • Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library
Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library

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Come and enjoy the garden of the media library for a reading break in the open air !
The garden of the media library is open all year round.
When the weather is nice, the media library offers open-air shows. You can simply come and read a book in a deckchair and take advantage of this place to dream !

The municipal media library bears the name of the poet, anthologist, historian and politician Joseph Rousse. He was born on 12 February 1838 in La Plaine.
 
He belonged to an old seafaring family, his father and both grandfathers being ocean-going captains. Lulled by old sailors' songs, his dreamy soul led him to poetry.
 
A law graduate, Joseph Rousse first joined the judiciary. He published his first poems in 1865 in the Revue de Bretagne et Vendée.

In 1866, his health forced him to stay at Le Croisic and Pornic, where he wrote the collection of poems Au Pays de Retz.

Joseph Rousse's political career began with his brief involvement in journalism. A conservative Republican, in October 1871 he was elected Republican general councillor for the canton of Pornic.
It should be noted that it was thanks to his intervention with the owner of the land on which the Mousseaux burial mound was located that she decided to donate it to the town of Pornic.
 
In 1872, Joseph Rousse was appointed judge at the court in Lannion.
The following year, he married Marie-Thèrèse Rousselot (daughter of a Nantes banker), and the couple had four daughters. It was also in 1873 that he was appointed judge in Châteaubriant.
 
In 1874 he was re-elected in the canton of Pornic.
In 1876, he lost the legislative elections in Loire-Inférieure in the Paimbœuf district to a royalist, the Comte de Juigné. He then gave up his political career and went into partnership with his brothers-in-law from the Nantes bank Rousselot.

In 1891, Joseph Rousse, ruined by the bankruptcy of the Rousselot bank, obtained a position as assistant librarian at the Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes.
He became Curator in 1895.
That same year, Joseph Rousse published his major work: La Poésie bretonne au XIXe siècle. It is a study of the Breton poetic art of his century, in which the mysticism of the Celtic soul and the feeling of Breton nationality appear as the sources of inspiration for the Breton poets of his time.
He was also the author of numerous local history studies and genealogical works.
 
In July 1908, Joseph Rousse left his position at the Nantes Library. He died in Paris at the home of his son-in-law on 10 May 1909. He is buried with his brother, the painter Adolphe Rousse, in Pornic cemetery.

 
Information
  • VISITS :
    • Individual admission (without guide)
    • Group admission (without guide)
  • PETS :
    • Pets allowed
  • ACESSIBILITY :
    • Accessible for mobility impaired persons
  • Geographical zone :
    • La Plaine-sur-Mer

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Jardin de la médiathèque Joseph Rousse
Rue des Ajoncs
44770
LA PLAINE SUR MER
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 47.13765
Longitude : -2.19055
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Contact details
Garden of the Joseph Rousse multimedia library
Rue des Ajoncs
44770
LA PLAINE SUR MER
Phone : +33 2 51 74 81 92
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