Bauduen

Bauduen ( Bauduen in Of Provence) is a common French, located in the department of the Var and the French Région Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Geography

The village is located at 500 meters of altitude at the edge of the Lac of Holy-Cross and at the abrupt edge of the hill of Défens (723m). The commune is limited to the south by the chain of the Cuguyons and to the east by Mocrouis, stripped mountain located in the military camp of Canjuers.

Etymology and denominations

It is with the pre-indo-European root " baL.D" that it is necessary to attach the name of Bauduen, located at the foot of a " baou" of Provence " grotte" or " rock escarpé". City in 1060-1064 " Balduini Castri" of " Castro Baldonium" in 1094, " Bouduengn" about 1200, of " Bauduno" in 1229, " Bauduengn" in 1239-1240, " Beaudun" before the Revolution. Into of Provence: " Bauduen".

History

Near the source of Fountain-the Bishop, absorbed today, was a Neolithic funerary tank. The old Roman way which led Fréjus to Riez, whose layout is attested by the milliary ones (terminals of Antonin), passed close to the antique " Bauduenjium". The burial and the many shards of ceramics discovered in St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre as well as a funerary inscription preserved in the hall of the town hall confirm the occupation of the soil at the time Roman.
In 1060, the village " Balduini Castri" is quoted for the first time in the cartulaire of Saint-Victor of Marseilles. In 1549, according to the example of the inhabitants of Fixed, those of Bauduen rose against their lord and reduced in ashes the village.
September 13rd, 1721, Jacques de Granier, lord of the Beams, was assassinated by François Brouillonny, lord of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, following a length and périlleurs lawsuit concerning an offense of hunting made in 1714. A stop of April 10th, 1726 returned by the Parlement of Provence condemned the culprit to be coiled sharp on the public place of Aix. All its goods were confiscated in favor of Marguerite de Pontevès, widow of the victim.
In 1765, Bauduen counted 807 inhabitants.
the mills and paper mills which were still installed in the village at the beginning of the XIXe century were quickly abandoned

Demography

Remarkable sites

the Lake of Holy-Cross
the Gorges of the Verdon

Personalities related to the commune

Saint Lambert, Born in Bauduen in 1084. It follows its studies to Riez. Lambert of Bauduen becomes monk to the monastery Saint-Honorat of Lérins. Serious and voluntary, he is elected bishop of Vence. He then equips his episcopal city with a Romance cathedral. Human, it can listen to supplications of the peasants that it supports against the feudal ones. To release the serfs, Lambert recommends, the top of the pulpit, the installation of water mills. To release the horses, it recommends the collar of shoulder to the place of the collar of neck.
After an exemplary life, Saint Lambert dies out in 1154.

External bonds

Town hall of the Bauduen-on-Verdon

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