Étrépigny

Étrépigny is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Geography

The village is located at 10 km in the south of Charleville-Mézières.

History

Belonging formerly to the county of Rethel, one finds the first mention in of it 1252. It counts today a little more than 200 inhabitants and extends on 423 hectares. Average altitude: 196 meters.

Located in a fold of the pre-of the Ardennes peaks, its main street aligns stone houses characteristic of Dom prolonged by an alley of Marronnier S worthy leading to the Château and the church, high symbols of the not very banal history of the locality.

Of 1689 with 1729 indeed, the church had as a priest Jean Meslier who had to complain about the lord of the manor, showing it in pulpit of truth to maltreat the peasants. Nonglad to make systematically sound hunting horn under the canopies of the church during the offices, Lord Anthoine de Touilly, Knight, Lord of Cléry, Saint-Martin-on-Bar and Pouilly, easily obtained the support of the bishop of Rheims, Mgr of Mailly, for réprimander the small priest who was held it for known as… until his death where, in the form of a manuscript of more than thousand pages it left with his parishioners a philosophical will, true bomb with delayed-action which will burst only with nothing less than the French revolution.

If the tiny church of the 12th century is always that which saw these events, the castle on the other hand shows nothing any more but some vestiges of than it was under the Ancien Mode. The current masonry, unfortunately in ruins it also, was set up in 1825 by another famous character: Louis Lefèvre-Gineau, physicist and deputy, with whom one must have, in 1799, definite the Masse of the Kilogram.

Administration

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Ardennes

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