Name: Pointe Trigano
Item: Pointe Trigano
Author: ZipMundi Admin

There is in Paris, not far from the arch of Porte St Martin and at the crossroads of rue de Cléry and rue de Beauregard which run along the phantom walkway of the former fortification of Charles V from the 14th century, a curious building …
Poem of verticality, it is known under the name of “la pointe Trigano” of which a plaque, taking up the conventional signage of the names of the streets, comes to inform the singularity.
“pointe Trigano”: “Trigano”: the name of the founder of Club Med. “Pointe”: this is a strange singularity that does not correspond to any official nomenclature of the Parisian urban layout.

The city, like the language, has its hapax, these words which know only one occurrence: which have been used only once and under the pen of a single writer.
We remember Mallarmé’s famous Ptyx whose enigmatic meaning gave rise to many glosses and which had to be heard – and failing that, understood – in the homophonic embrace that linked it to the rhyme of the “Styx” which preceded it in the poem.
The “Pointe Trigano” with its airs of bow stranded at the gate of the Grands Boulevards, comes from this curiosity of language that escapes dictionaries. It comes from these terrae incognitae where the mapped reliefs excite the intuition of an invisible fault by which to return the vision of the known world and perhaps hope for a beyond to the certainties that the world stops at the authority of the geometers .
In literary history and at the height of the Baroque outpouring, that is to say in the 17th century. the “point” designated this pleasure of the spirit consisting in the highlighting of an unexpected relationship between two ideas by the unusual bringing together of two words.
It was a question of diverting by spirit and in language, in a last effort, the then flourishing enterprise of rationalization of the world by nascent scientific thought and its corollary univocity. To face up to the classification of things that lexicons, museums and soon banks will not take long to freeze and capitalize on, the era is arming itself with recourses of ambiguity that metaphor, enigma and the point answer so extravagant.

The ideological sobriety of the classical age will soon doom these processes to the harmless mannerism of the preciousness of style.

The fact remains that the city, like the language, has its slums, its slangs and its crooks that official history misses. And which, like the unfathomable seabed, develops a strange, organic light: a thermo-luminescence that sparkles despite the darkness to which it is dedicated.
A living fossil, the “Pointe Trigano” has stood proud since the 17th century. and the demolition of the wall that surrounded Paris and gauges these subversive margins now overtaken by urban growth: the brothels that had adjoined it extra-muros, the Courts of Miracles that stretched their territories of legal, ugly and esoteric franchises, the Egyptomania adjoining the Sentier district which returned in 1798 with Napoleon rubbing off on the facades.

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