Basseux

Basseux is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Geography

Basseux is located at 12 km in the west of Arras and at 2 km of the Trunk road 25 which connects Arras and Doullens.

With the bottom of the village the Crinchon runs.

History

At the 7th Basseux century named Batsalis (680) “ Bata ”: “Good” and “ Saddle ” which is of Germanic etymology, (Francs). According to Ricouart, a colony of Lètes Bataves was present in the valley of Crinchon. The name is declined in Batseus (1154), Basceu (1277). With the 19th Basseux-the-Cabins (the section of the Cabins is attached to Beaumetz by decree of April 10th, 1858).

Some dates

In 1469, the village counted 19 fires (80 to 90 inhabitants).

In 1711, the troops of the marquis de Hautefort, general Lieutenant of the armies of Louis XIV, confined with Rivière foraged the commune. This episode is at the time of the War of succession of Spain (1700-1713).

In 1788 - 1789, the Wikt: presbytery is rebuilt, on the questionnaire with the communes of 1790, the priest was Charles-Joseph Hoilain, priest of Basseux since 1786 and before Vicaire and preacher (1768-1786). He is also elected prosecutor of the commune in 1790, and thus represents Basseux near the authorities). The mayor is Mr Cardevac, above Chanoine of Arras.

In 1790, the village counts 217 inhabitants.

April 8th 1834, half of the village disappeared in a fire. An inscription on the left of the gate of the church recalls the memory of it: “On April 8th, 1834, 17 houses of this village were burnt. They all were rebuilt in the same year by the benefits of the king, the helps of the government, those of the department and the many gifts generous people. This stone was placed like a monument of recognition of the inhabitants of Basseux for their benefactors.

January 1st 1871, a skirmish took place between the dragons French and the Uhlan S Prussian.

Let us quote finally a habit which proceeded the Easter Monday. A meeting of young people whom one called the Market with the girls.

Notre-Dame Marchette

Events were to mark the locality and one finds in the register of parish of the year 1896, the legend which makes of the Virgin of Basseux, rules in oak extremely old, including/understanding only the upper part of the body and painted colors very sharp, with the Child-Jesus on the left arm, a miraculous statue. At the saddest days of the French revolution, writes the chronicler, whereas encroached, mistress for one moment, attacked, stole, ransacked, burned the holy things, from the inhabitants of Basseux removed the statue of their beloved Owner to withdraw it from some act sacrilege. When the social storm had passed, at a date that we cannot specify, it arrived this:

“A shepherd made feed his sheep in a field located between Basseux and Monchiet. He noticed that its herd went preferably to a certain place increasingly greener, although he more often was trampled and bitten. The fact appeared to him, with reason, surprising. It made of it share with people of Basseux and one solved to dig the singular place. One was not long in discovering the statue of Notre-Dame. The Christians who had thus hidden their Owner they had died? Without any doubt, because they would have revealed the place of the saint deposit. At all events, the Virgin was brought back to the church of Basseux, but the inhabitants of Monchiet, arming themselves with an article of the Code, claimed the statue like having been found in a ground depending on their commune. Basseux refused. Monchiet was obstinated. In short that the Virgin had been given or removed, it was deposited in the church of Monchiet. But one morning, one found it with the door of the church of Basseux. The event was renewed twice, which put an end to the piles litigation and Notre-Dame accepted the name of Marchette”.

the annual pilgrimage

Every year, a famous pilgrimage begins on March 25th in the honor of Notre-Dame de Basseux. One calls upon it mainly for the children being long in walking, walking with difficulty, malingres, estropiés or crippled.

history of the Virgin

But the humble prayers addressed for the children to Notre-Dame Marchette, the more recent history made it possible to add anthems of recognition. Indeed, the church of Basseux was particularly protected during the Great War. In 1914, the trenches were only to a few hundred meters of the sanctuary of Notre-Dame. The Germans occupied Ransart, Monchy-with-Wood, the heights of River. Basseux was threatened. Prudence ordered that one put in sure place the antique and venerated statue. One descended it in a deep cellar, but it is reported that the general who ordered the Breton and Vendean soldiers confined with Basseux protested against this retirement and ordered to replace the statue in his place of honor. During all the hostilities, no shell fell on the building. Several Ex-voto and of many silver hearts testifies that one in vain does not call upon the Virgin of Basseux and thus remains long-lived in a corner of the harmonious country of Artois a devotion by which its current inhabitants join the ancestors over the vicissitudes of the wars and the revolutions.

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Demography

Places and monuments

It is necessary to note the presence of old a Roman Voie which connected Arras and Amiens (prolongation of N25 at the exit of Beaumetz-the-Cabins), in watershed in direction of Bailleulval.
Its church shelters Notre-Dame de Marchette. The church is classified with the additional inventory of the Historic buildings since June 16th, 1926. Also registered site of the poplars, in edge of the Roman roadway.

The church

The church goes back to 1540, the windows are narrow and of ogival form. It is a composite church of pace which testifies to constructions of different times. The building includes/understands an arched chorus, a nave with collateral and a bell-tower porch. The tower is massive, square and with buttresses.

the gate of entry : It is in handle of basket broken with carved accodance (Two angels and an animal hammered). Its keystone comprises a streamer carrying in relief the year 1547. Inscription engraved in the white stone of 1m20 length on 0m50 top. Two bells were removed in 1793 (fondues to make guns of them), the first named Louise, and had Charles Antoine Lallart for godfather. She weighed 1 500 pounds. The second had as a godfather François Lamoral de Buissy, canon of the church cathedral of Arras and weighed 1 000 pounds.

the Nave : It is posterior with the bell-tower, indeed its large arcades rest on the Contrefort S of this one. Its arched arcades, panelled with three farms with in its center (medallion) are probable works of the medium or second half of the 16th century. The piles are made up of four sandstone columns of the 13th century with ogival capital blazing are not homogeneous. Indeed, the bases, the bases and the barrels seem about contemporary Chœur (13th century). On the other hand the capitals show one blazing period (14th-15th century).

The sides are very narrow, that of left comprises propping up. One altered or rebuilt the sides at the 18th century. The chorus and its vaults are built in full ogival style (13th century), the reason for its keystone represents the paschal lamb in majesty. The vault of the nave is a barrel vault, of ogival form.

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