Béthemont-the-forest

Béthemont-the-forest is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Béthemontois (be).

Geography

The village is located on the northern side of the Forêt of Montmorency, and dominates the Vallée of Chauvry as well as the Forêt of Isle-Adam.

The commune is bordering on Saint-Leu-the-Forest, Taverny, Villiers-Adam and Chauvry.

The village, at 25 km of Paris, however preserved a rural character. Paths allow pedestrian or equestrian forest walks.

History

The name of the commune probably comes from the Germanic anthroponyme Betto and Latin Mons , mountain.

The village located at the northern edge of the Forêt of Montmorency would have appeared at the 12th century. With the variation of the railroad, the village remains given by agriculture and is registered for totality in the classified site of the valley of Chauvry.

The village was a center of activities to the Stone Age, place of manufacture of sandstone tools.

The farm of Montanglau, attached to a castle now disappeared in 1793, is of feudal origin.

The disappeared castle becomes at the XVIIIe century property of the count de Montmorency then of Prince de Conti.

The local legend tells, according to Jean Aubert, that undergrounds connected the village to the abbey of the Valley.

Administration

Béthemont-the-forest belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Montmorency, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Inheritance

The firm of Montauglan (XVIIe century) is typical farms of the Plaine of France (blind hardcore walls of Meulière). The agricultural activity is maintained there well that part of the building was converted into social housing in the Années 1980. Castle it remains only this farm, dependence, and the surrounding walls, street of Montubois.

The lava-shoes of limestone, of the beginning of the XIXe century, is one of the rare examples of this type of construction to have to remain in Ile-de-France. The fountain feeding trough also dates from the period of construction of the structure.

One of the oldest houses of the village, in periphery, date of the middle of the XIXe century. It is equipped with Contrefort S. In addition to its Calvaire, the village presents a cross of mission of 1854 and the cross known as of Sensitive to the cold which commemorates the execution of an inhabitant by the Prussians in 1870. The current town hall, with simple pediment, is built in 1880.

The church Our-Lady-of-the-Pity is built in 1859 to replace the old church destroyed under the Revolution. It presents a Chevet to three sides in the south.

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