This week’s Aminus3 Photography prompt is ‘Street Signs’.

I’ve got plenty of those, and in fact I photographed half a dozen more this weekend. However, I’ve always found this one interesting.

In the middle of Troyes, France, is a small road, the Rue Charles Fichot, barely 300 metres from one end to the other.

Charles Fichot was an artist, born in Troyes, who died in Paris in 1903. Following his death, the road previously known as the Rue des Barreaux was renamed in his memory, which means that this rusty sign is older than that. I don’t know when it was inverted, or if somebody did so in order to protect the wood behind, but I do know that it disappeared in 2012 or so, and that the building it was attached to is currently being renovated. Every time I walk past, I look up, just in case it has reappeared, although I do realise that’s a somewhat forlorn hope.

So here’s a photo taken by me not long before it vanished, nearly 110 years after the name was changed.