Bercenay-in-Othe

Bercenay-in-Othe is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne. Its inhabitants are called Dagnelles (or Daguenelles).

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Augustin African Stourm (1797-1865), senator of the Paddle and director of the Stations under the Second Empire (introducer in France of the postage stamp in 1849), lived there.

Wire of the precedent, Rene Stourm (1837-1917), tax inspector, cofounder of the Private school of political sciences, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science morals and policies, remained a long time there.

Grandson of the precedent, the physicist Louis Leprince-Ringuet, member of the French Academy and the Academy of Science, spent his holidays there and in particular prepared the entrance examination there to the Polytechnic school.

The romantic painter Louis Cabat (1812-1893), cousin of the precedents, lived there and in painted many landscapes.

See too

Common of the Paddle

External bonds

Bercenay-in-Othe on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bercenay-in-Othe on the site of INSEE
Bercenay-in-Othe on the site of Quid
Localization of Bercenay-in-Othe on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bercenay-in-Othe on Mapquest

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