Beuvraignes

Beuvraignes is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Geography

The commune of Beuvraignes is located geographically at the center of Picardy, in the extreme south-east of the fertile plain of Santerre. Longer than broad, it fits narrowly between the village of Tilloloy, of which it is separate physically by Main road 17, a1 highway and the Northern TGV, and the village of Crapeaumesnil. Beuvraignes is with 7 kilometers of Roye, its chief town of canton, with 16 kilometers in the east of Montdidier, its chief town of district, and with 47 kilometers in the south-east of Amiens, chief town of the department of the Sum of which it forms the limit. It is limited by ten territories (4 belong to the Sum and 6 to Oise). The population is distributed between the principal village and three hamlets, of which two are attached to him, in the east the Street of the Abbey and the south Cessier; only, the hamlet of the Cabins is isolated in south-east from the territory. Geology: The territory of Beuvraignes forms a hardly corrugated plate limited by the valley of Matz. Its culminating point reaches 102 meters with the top of the sea level close to the vault while one dimensions 91 meters in the septentrional part. In the argillaceous grounds of north or the marnes which extend above clay, the sources abound with a low depth.

History

b) Historical reference marks

Beverinae (1048), Bevrigne (1148), Buvrigne (1184), Buveringnes (1300), Buvregnes (1362), Buveraines (1564), Buvringe (1625), Buverainge (1666), Beuvreines (1743), Beuvraignes (1767)

The various discoveries of the 19th century make go up the origins of this commune at the time Gallo-Roman. In addition to the discovery of furnaces of potters, parts with the effigy of Néron and Posthumous (257 after J-C), the inhabitants could still admire a menhir on the place of the village until 1816. This territory at the time was populated by Veromandues, tribe Gallic of Belgian origin, they lived years a wooded and marshy environment.

It is necessary to wait the 12th century to find the trace of Beuvraignes in the files of the abbey of Saint Eloi de Noyon. Indeed, this catholic order had under control the commune, divided into ten small fields. Moreover, a hamlet still bears the name of this “put hand”: hamlet of the abbey. The monks keep this “control” until the 18th century. Nevertheless the population is not made up that noble monks or people, the peasants form essence of it. They worked for these owners.

Life is hard at the time medieval in north of France, between the famines and the invasions (English, Burgundian, Spanish, wars of religion, Prussians, allemandes)

The French revolution does not bring comfort to the peasants. They are attached to the Church and protect 13 refractory priests between 1792 and 1794, date on which the church is requisitioned and transformed into powder factory. They plead for the lord of Tilloloy, guillotine under Terror.

The Empire and the 19th century are softer for this territory: economic development, abundant agricultural harvest, construction of the castle of the Cabins (dwelling of the deputy of the Sum, the baron de Septenville in 1798), construction of a perception (1800), recruiting of a teacher and a teacher (rare in rural environment under the Empire), adjustment of the pavements and the place in the center of the village (1816), construction of a school town hall (1853), restoration of the church (1866), construction of the vault (1867), creation of the railway line between Roye and Compiegne with a station in the village (1879), inauguration of a station-telegraph (4/21/1900), rebuilding of a larger co-educational school (1910/1914)…

The First World War comes to break this dash, since 1915 the commune of Beuvraignes will be shaven, reduced in ash. In 1919 when the first inhabitants return, it is a lunar decoration which they discover. It will be necessary for them more than 10 years to find a fertile ground, so that the first trees refleurissent. (In 2002, the farmers or the private individuals still find military vestiges of a terrible war.) The shortly after the rebuilding (brick public buildings red blood - 1930), it is “the funny one of war” which starts. The commune under occupation Nazi is classified in closed area. Beuvraignes undergoes the presence of two prison camps, some inhabitants are stopped by denunciation, some of them do not return from the camps of work Nazis.

Today, the communal inheritance includes/understands a church, a vault, a school, “the commun runs” or “Uses”

(source: Beuvraignes and its communes, count Maxime de Sars, published by Gilbert Dubois in 1974)

c) demographic, economic and social Reference marks

Year 1698 1791 1846 1906 1936 1982 1990 1999 Total (hab.) 900 1325 1262 1101 820 606 610 696 (source: documentation INSEE of Amiens, details in appendices)

At the end of the 18th century, the files raise that the population constitutes loggers, stockbreeders, nurses (for the children of Paris) and farmers. The inhabitants welded by their life in autarky, the religion, misery, the invasions and the “Uses” *, take part fairly in the rural migration of the 19th century related to the Industrial revolution. (confer graphic above, period of 1846 to 1906)

Indeed the economic dynamism of this community (in 1900, one notes a production of cider, cheese manufacturers, lime a career, sand an exploitation, six windmills, a factory of leather gloves in residence for the women, a factory of liquor “Mélina” whose trade secret will be lost during the First World War) and the advantage which represent “Uses” * guarantees to the inhabitants sufficient incomes.

It is necessary to wait years 1980/1990 to find the economic dynamism and demography lost because of the two First World Wars.

Indeed when one observes the statistics of the National institute of the economic statistics (INSEE - details in appendices), one notices a growth of the population, some is the age.

The labelled people “active” were installed on the commune between 1982 and 1999. That would explain why the number of people applicants of employment dropped by 37,44%, passing from 23,04% of the population in 1982 to 12,8% in 1999.

In the Eighties, the common one counts 2 mechanics, 1 shoeing marshal, 2 bakers, 1 hairdresser, 1 horticulturist, 2 porkbutchers, 1 to stop, 2 grocers, 4 café owners, 1 manager of camp-site, 1 conveyer, 1 contractor of agricultural work, 1 head of undertaking (glass fiber factory), 2 carpenters, 3 mattress makers… the station closed in the Seventies, the railway line was dismounted.

I notice that in 1982 fifty women of the commune were neither active, nor applicants of employment. However, in 1999, they are entered. I suppose that at the time of the first census the mothers with the hearth, the women of craftsmen, tradesmen and farmers did not return in any “box”. I think that there was a lack of recognition for their activity.

In 20 years the village lost many trade but remains still economically, démographiquement and socially dynamics.

Currently, the economy of the commune is constituted of a baker, a horticulturist, two plumbers, a mattress maker, a head of undertaking (glass fiber factory), of a manager in storage, a contractor in manufacture of tee-shirt, of a metallurgy contractor, a contractor in data processing and a conveyer.

The increase in the main homes shows the increase in the population, however the number of people working on the commune is in constant reduction. It was of 114 people out of 226 credits in 1982 against 64 people out of 269 credits in 1999.

The enlarging and the modernization of the equipment of the nursery school and primary, the development of the activities of leisures para and extra-curricular (contract “spare time”) and the dynamism of associations give to this communes the measurement of its ambitions…

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the patriotic crossroads Robert Lane (between Crapaumesnil and Fresnières)
the stele commemorative and the statue of hairy the (between Crapaumesnil and Fresnières)
the military cemetery of Beuvraignes

Personalities related to the commune

Mr Robert Lane, president (+) of association " Not with the discharge of the wood of Loges" who fought actively to his last breath against a center of hiding of waste (a discharge more precisely) on a site where a terrible battle at the time of the First World War took place. A patriotic crossroads bearing its name, thus paying homage to him, was inaugurated at the same time as a stele with a granite statue representing hairy Great War, on November 25th, 2006. Several political personalities were present there. See article of the Picardy Mail (Sum and of Oise) on Sunday, November 26, 2006 (one sees there in particular its widow discovering the cross of the Tricolor).

See too

Common of the Sum

External bonds

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

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