ABSTRACT
The Allées forms the northeastern edge of the Grande Hommes district, the center of which is the circular market: the Marché des Grandes Hommes. The Allées connects the Place de Tourny with the Place de la Comédie, which is also the site of the forum of the Roman colony of Burgdigala. For over several decades the Allées de Tourny was a one-sided boulevard with its northeastern edge open to the former Château Trompette fortress and the Garonne river beyond. Following a 1792 design competition, however, the semicircular crescent of the Place de Louis XVI eventually defined the expansive garden that opens to the river (Cleary 1998: 148-149). Today, the Allées, with four ranges of trees, is associated with fashionable shops and restaurants.
