Bathe-Holy-Radegonde

Bathe-Holy-Radegonde is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants is called the baignois and baignoises .

Geography

History

At the time Roman, Bathe-Holy-Radegonde then was called “Cathmeriacum” and the river which crossed it was the “Cavallon”. The Roman villa was served by the way which coming from Saintes and which went until Bordeaux. At the time of Charlemagne, the abbey Saint-Etienne was built in the south of the borough. To the the Middle Ages, the monks of the abbey gave to the city the name Béania meaning “Man rough, ignoramus and newcomer” . Béania joined together the borough of the abbey and the borough of Montausier. Then, a feudal castle was built close to the fountain Font Madam. The seigniory of Montausier lived there and it was relatively important during the 17th century. It was one of the strongholds of the big family of Taillefer, Count of Angouleme. At the time of the Revolution, the grounds were sold and the castle destroyed in 1793. In 1855, Holy-Radegonde amalgamates with Baignes to give Bathe-Holy-Radegonde . At this period, the abbot Jean Hyppolyte Michon made build a manor on the site of the old castle. In 1893, the first cooperative dairy Charente-native was born with Baignes. Name " butter of Baignes" still profits from a great fame.

Administration

Demography

Places and Monuments

Ruins of the castle of Montausier 16th century: arched fountain known as Make-of-Madam; turn of Montausier 12th century. Romantic manor 19th century of the Michon abbot, archeologist, inventor of graphology.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Hyppolyte Michon was born in Corrèze in 1806. He moved in Charente with his family and he lived many years there. He was a universal man: writer, journalist, archeologist. He made build a manor on the old vestiges of the castle of Montausier. He was itself the draftsman and the inventor of the manor with the assistance of workmen of the trade. He took as a starting point the voyages in the East to define of it the architecture which borrows from the Middle Ages the machicolations and the crenels and from Eastern art the polybés arcs. Founder of graphology, studies of the manuscript writings aiming at revealing the personality of the authors, the Michon Abbot published in 1878 " the method practices graphologie".

See too

Common of Charente

External bonds

Bathe-Holy-Radégonde on the site of the Tourist office of the 3B Sud Charente
Bathe-Holy-Radegonde on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bathe-Holy-Radegonde on the site of the inheritance of Bathe-Holy-Radegonde France
on the site of INSEE
Bathe-Holy-Radegonde on the site of Quid
Localization of Bathe-Holy-Radegonde on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bathe-Holy-Radegonde on Mapquest

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