The Quai du Wault sits at the end of the canal as a wide, stone-lined basin defined by its curved, seventeenth-century quay walls. It once served as the bustling inland port of Lille, where barges unloaded wine from Bordeaux and grain from the surrounding plains. When a customs officer named Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle surveyed these docks in seventeen ten, he noted the constant chaos of laborers and merchants fighting over docking space near the Saint-Pierre bridge.
Quai du Wault
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