Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire

See also: Barbezieux, Saint-Hilaire

Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes.
Elle results from fusion, in the years 1970 of the commune of Barbezieux and that of Saint-Hilaire-of-Barbezieux.

The inhabitants are called Barbeziliens.

Geography

  • At the top of a hill of 104 m, which dominates the small valleys of the Trèfle in the West and the Condéon in the East.

History

Administration

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Demography

Economy

  • Agriculture: in particular production of cognac and pineau, Barbezieux being located in Small Champagne
  • Movable Trade
  • , wood (Nordlinger establishments)
  • Agricultural machinery
  • food Packing (Venthenat, group Amcor)

Twinnings

Famous characters

  • General Pierre Gaschet
  • Commander Fougerat
  • Rigaut de Barbezieux, troubadour
  • François-Augustin Dubois-Martin, companion of Fayette |
  • Jacques Burrs, writer
  • Henri Fauconnier, writer
  • Genevieve Fauconnier, writer
  • Felix Gaillard, politician
  • François Deguelt, artist
  • Philippe Besson, writer
  • Daniel Reynaud, " écriturier"

In addition, in the fiction, Barbezieux is used as retirement (with the number “quarante-douze” of the avenue of Belgium) to the detectives Black and White, in the episode Boudin crowned of the radiophonic serial mild nutter Signé Furax with, among the adventures of the beginning, a “oath of the marked apple juice” close to an old cider press…

Tourist monuments and places

  • an old castle on the hill goes back to 1453, it remains about it a door strengthened between two imposing towers with machicolation. The fortifications were shaven in 1820.

Teaching

  • Colleges: College Elie Vinet and LEPA

  • Colleges: Sainte-Marie college (private) and College Jean Moulin
  • Schools: Sainte-Marie school (private) and Strong Felix School

References

  • " I was born in a small town where I lived a long time, but I was unaware of that it was a small town, one of these deadened villages, which makes pity with Parisian when it crosses them by car. It appeared vast, provided well and very animated to me. "
Jacques Burrs, in With the Happiness of Barbezieux .

External bonds

  • Site of the tourist bureau
  • Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire on the site of INSEE
  • Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire on Mapquest
  • Site of the college Elie Vinet
  • More on Daniel Reynaud, " écriturier" resident of Charente
  • Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the plague with Barbezieux in the 1629-1630 - a study by Jules Pellisson in 1876
  • December 1792 - guillotine enters in service in Barbezieux

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