Bassac

See also: Bassac (homonymy)

Bassac is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants is called the bassacois and bassacoises .

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Teaching

The school is a RPI between Triac-Lautrait and Bassac.

Triac-Lautrait accommodates the elementary school and Bassac the elementary school.

Places and monuments

  • Church Saint-Etienne : old abbey of the diocese of Holy, founded in 1002 by Wardrade Lorichès , count of Walk and first known lord of Jarnac; it to still lie, like its wife Rixendis in the church of Bassac. Devoted towards 1015 by Grimoard, bishop of Angouleme, and his/her Iso brother, bishop of Saintes.
It is attached in 1092 to the abbey of Saint-Jean-in Angély; it becomes again free in 1246.
Church mainly rebuilt under Guillaume of Vibrac, abbot of 1247 with 1286. Plundered by the anglo-Gascon troops in 1434 it is restored and strengthened under Henri de Courbon, abbot of 1451 with 1476 which also rebuilds the home of the abbot and the cloître.
Plundered by the Protestants in 1564.
Besieged and plundered by the Catholics at the time of the Battle of Jarnac in 1569.
Rebuilding of the vaults of the abbey one: in 1677 and 1688. Built conventual buildings of 1677 with 1716.
Destruction of the cloister in 1820.

The bell-tower has a covered ground floor of a small very high cupola of the 12th century; it presents, above the stock, four stages reprocesses the ones on the others, underlined by a cord, with posts with the angles, and is surmounted by them by a conical arrow with overlaps, accosted with its departure by four pinnacles in triangular pyramid.
One can read on his Romance frontage an inscription of the sentence of Robespierre: French people recognizes the supreme being and the immortality of the heart .
One finds, between-others, a vault of the 13th century bored of a bay and glaze of a ribbed vault with inter-ties, followed by another vault of the 15th century, arched only on warheads, having a bay with three mullions and blazing network. It is classified among the Historic buildings, by decree of the December 10th 1880.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Charente

External bonds

  • Bassac on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Bassac on the site of INSEE
  • Bassac on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Bassac on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Bassac on Mapquest

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