This pleasant walk, shaded by centuries-old lime trees, runs between the River Aube, on the left, and its deferential canal, on the right. Originally, it served as a millstream for the mill located within the abbey walls, hence its name "Promenade d'Entre-deux-eaux". It is quite likely that this bench was built at the same time as the mill, the stones of which seem to date back to the 13th century, but its use as a "promenade" is not attested to at this remote period. It seems more likely that it was originally used as a path to maintain the mill canal. The very beginning of the promenade originally served as a monumental entrance to the abbey church and to the abbey from the guest house (Le Lion d'Or).
The lime trees that can be seen today are remarkable and quite impressive in terms of the size of their trunks. The oldest of them were planted in 1735, making them 265 years old in 2000.
This "Promenade d'Entre-deux-eaux", now a listed site by decree of 11 October 1963, was once sung by the local poet-literator André THEURIET of the Académie Française: "The sun, already slanting, lengthened the shadows of the lime trees on the Promenade d'Entre-deux-eaux and a golden shiver ran across the surface of the jumping river" ("Sauvageonne"). In the middle of the promenade, a charming communal washhouse dating from the mid-nineteenth century catches the eye of walkers.
La promenade de l'Entre-Deux-Eaux
