“The Port of the Moon, port city of Bordeaux in south-west
France, is inscribed as an inhabited historic city, an outstanding urban and
architectural ensemble, created in the age of the Enlightenment, whose values
continued up to the first half of the 20th century, with more protected
buildings than any other French city except Paris. It is also recognized for its
historic role as a place of exchange of cultural values over more than 2,000
years, particularly since the 12th century due to commercial links with Britain
and the Low Lands. Urban plans and architectural ensembles of the early 18th
century onwards place the city as an outstanding example of innovative
classical and neoclassical trends and give it an exceptional urban and
architectural unity and coherence. Its urban form represents the success of
philosophers who wanted to make towns into melting pots of humanism,
universality and culture.
Spencer's area, Lormont, where he served with and rendered needful service to Elder Utia, is not really any of those grand things. It is across the river and up in those hills, and it is both much more recently built, and plainer.
Just as historic to our family though! Here's where those young men lived during that tough and transformative time.
