Arthies is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants is called Arthésien () S.

Geography

The commune is located in the French Vexin, to approximately 50 km in the North-West of Paris. It is crossed by the D 983 (Magny-in-Vexin - Mantes-the-Pretty). A deviation of this axis is claimed since many years by the inhabitants and is envisaged in the medium term following the caused harmful effects and accidents.

The village counts three variations: The Bel Air, Tileries and Feuge.

History

The name comes from the Celt arthies , house, or perhaps of the Gallic attegia , cants.

What exists of the village is attested in 690, mentioned under the name of Artegiæ in the “Will of the unknown of Arthies”. The lords of Arthies found a maladrery at the 12th century, under the term of Saint Thomas. Following the conflicts with the duke of Normandy, a strong Château is set up. It belongs to Silly of the Rock-Guyon until the French revolution. The stone Meulière is exploited before the 17th century; it is essentially sent to Paris, but is useful also locally for the grinding stones of Moulin or the macadamization of the roads. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village is famous enough for its cultures of Cerise S. the village remained with the 21e primarily agricultural century (cereal field crop).

Administration

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

the church Saint-Aignan goes back to the 11th century, but only the bell-tower capped as a bâtière and the Nef go back to this time. It contains Baptismal font 11th century and a furnace bridge of the 18th century.

the castle , located at the exit of the village in direction of Mantes, is an old manor seigneurial built with and 17th centuries. The central house built towards 1430 by the lord of Théméricourt and flanked of a turret of angle comprises mullioned windows. The garden has beautiful a pigeon octagonal, type met generally in the center and the north of the Vexin. It has brick putlog-holes and a stringcourse with stone drip, intended to prevent the rats and Belette S to reach the attic window as a bâtière. The pregnant of the castle is made up of walls forming a checkerwork of bricks and stones 4 cm thickness and 17 cm length. The bricks were cooked in the vicinity immediate, in a special furnace located at fifteen meters from there, and discovered in 1898. The walls in the beginning were surmounted by a crenellation characteristic of military constructions of the Moyen-âge. The whole of the field is classified historic building since 1948.

Famous characters

Leon Plancouard (1871 - 1953), archeologist and historian of the Vexin is buried with the cemetery of the village. Curious a epitaph flowering ash its tomb: “ Leon from went away as it had come, without hope to know and being known. He made little, saw anything, regretted, but understood that in all the naturalness overrides the spirit. ”

See too

Internal bonds

• French Vexin
• Common of the Val-d'Oise

Notes, sources and references

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