Aspet

Aspet is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Aspétois.

Blazon

Blazon: quartered: with the first and the fourth of azure to the grinding stone of money mill, with the second party with the first of mouths to the two otelles ones of money posed one on the other, one out of bar, the other in band and with the gold second to the two cows of mouths, accornées, colletées and clarinées of azure, passing one on the other, with the third party with the first of gold to the two circumvented of mouths, accornées cows, colletées and clarinées of azure, passing one on the other, and to the second of mouths to the two otelles ones of money posed one on the other, one in band, the other out of bar.

The Keystone of the Chapelle seigneuriale, which is behind the bedside of the parish church, comprises the weapons of Coarraze, which were lords of Aspet at the 15th century.

Raymond-Arnaud de Coarraze describes his weapons thus: " of gold with two busy sinople ewes, accornées and clarinées of money, which was Coarraze, quartered azure with a grinding stone of gold mill, charged with its sand anchor-tie, which was Aspet". With the keystone, one sees indeed the ewes busy, as well as the grinding stones, but also the otelles ones, which appear in the weapons of Comminges. The Gothic vault dates, surely, of the time of Coarraze.

The busy ewes became then cows, those being the emblem of the Béarn.

Geography

Located at the foot of the the Pyrenees in the Comminges to 15 km in the South-east of Saint-Gaudens and the foot of the Peak of Cagire which dominates the valley with 1912m.

Aspet is crossed by the Ger, affluent of the the Garonne.

Etymology

Aspet is resulting from the Basque azpeta which means in foot of cliff . The name of the commune says Aspèth (or " Aspetch" , like writes André Bouéry) in Gascon.

The bringing together is trying between " aspet" and " azpeta". But there is no cliff with Aspet. The landscape of hills is all in round-off.

In addition, in the first documents which refer to the city, this one is called " Spel " (1068), or " Espel" , which is far from " Azpeta".

Dauzat as well as Negro or others, are very hesitant on the origin of the mot. Seul Aymard has a distinct opinion. It sees the radical " there; asper ", " abrupt" place; , but then it would be about the high situation of the city, on a headland between the valley of Ger and the small valley of Soueil.

History

According to Jacques Ducos, ' the canton of Aspet 2003. Editions Catherine de Coarraze, 31160 Aspet. One is unaware of at which exact time the seigniory of Aspet was constituted. The first lord whose name was preserved called Ramon-At (hon). He lived around 1068. Several lords of Aspet take part in the Croisades, in particular Arnaud II, who embarks with Philippe-Auguste with Genoa in 1190. At the beginning of the 15th century, the baronnie passes to the family of Coarraze, whose last representing will be Catherine lady, to which one owes in particular the fountain which still decorates the principal place of the city. Raymond-Arnaud de Coarraze takes part, at the sides of Jeanne d' Arc, with the catch of Orleans. Dame Catherine dies in 1492 and the Baronnie passes then to the house of Foix. Its last baron will be Henri III of Navarre, which will become Henri IV. It is under its reign that the baronnie will be attached to the Crown.

Places and monuments

Aspet preserved few vestiges of these times. It is known that the city was surrounded by Muraille S, that it had three doors, of which the Saint Martin's day Door, dominated by the bell-tower of the church which shelters a famous Carillon. Behind the current bedside of the church one still sees the Chapelle seigneuriale, of Gothic Style, whose keystone is decorated weapons of the Coarraze.

Certain local scholars affirm that the tower of Chucaou, which dominates the city, is a simple tower with signals. But it do not have any proof to show it.

It will be noted however that Maurice Gourdon, in a study noticed on the lathes with signals (or lathes of guet) in Comminges, published in the Review of Comminges in 1906, cite la turn of Chucaou among this type of constructions, built between XIIe and the 14th centuries. Mondon, in 1935, makes the same analysis. The Charters of Aspet are completely dumb on this building.

One gives him sometimes - with wrong the denomination of “turn sarrasine”.

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

the cardinal Guillaume-Marie-Romain Sourrieu, Aspet 1825 - Rouen 1899. It was successively bishop of Châlons-in-Champagne and Archevêque of Rouen. Cardinal fact by Leon XIII, it will die two years after its accession with the cardinalat. Benefactor of its birthplace, one owes him, inter alia, the restoration of the vault of Miègecoste. A bust was placed on the place of the church.

Andre Bouéry, (1821 - 1879) Musician and Gascon poet , author of the " Cansous det campanè of Aspetch" , " Songs of the bell ringer of Aspet" , Poem S accompanying by the original melodies played Chime of 12 bells (at the time, 16 today). A marble bust was built in its honor on a place of the city.
Jean-Louis Georgelin: General of Armed.
Joseph Ruau, mayor, Appointed, Minister of Agriculture. Died in 1924. Him the realization of a " is owed; small train" who connected 1906 (year of the inauguration) to 1936 Aspet with Saint-Gaudens, the construction of the Town hall, a Hôpital intercantonal, etc a bust, of the sculptor Maurice Abbal, decorates the principal place of the village.
Jean Etienne Bartier de Saint-Hilaire Brigadier of the First Empire
Augustus Saint-Gaudens painter American Sculptor whose father was Cordonnier in Aspet

See too

Common of the Haute-Garonne

External bonds

office-of-tourism
Aspet Information
Aspet on the site of the national geographical Institute
Aspet on the site of INSEE
Aspet on the site of Quid
Localization of Aspet on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Aspet on Mapquest

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