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The monumental clock of the Gambetta place had been offered in 1896 per Mr. Dewailly former mayor. Its "Style 1900" characteristic did not find grace near the innovators. It was a place of appointment, much of couples met with the foot of the clock called by the certain "post of the love". On their return of exodus, after the events of May 1940, Amiénois amazed and destroyed, recognized their Gambetta place all alone only with the famous clock being drawn up in the medium of the heaps of rubble and some jagged sections of wall. This "No man' S Land" extended ad infinitum and only the bell-tower of the Saint-Leu church, the towers of the Cathedral and the decapitated belfry appeared. Only "Marie", the statue of bronze allegory of "Spring", by the sculptor Albert ROZE, called familiarly by Amiénois "Marie-Without-Shirt" was saved and reinstalled street of the Sergeants. And each year, the day of the Saint Nicolas's Day, during their students'rag procession, the students slipped in a shirt to him.