Bohain-in-Vermandois

Bohain-in Vermandois is a chief town of canton of the Département of Aisne, in the district of Saint-Quentin.

Its inhabitants is called the Bohainois .

Geography

City located between Cambric and Saint-Quentin, between Thiérache and Vermandois, located at the limit of the department of north.

It is accessessible by the highways has 26 and has 29 and FOR THE THIRD TIME lays out of a station on line the SNCF Paris-Maubeuge served by the trains Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Economic activity

Bohain is located in the vast textile basin of the north of France, disaster victim during second half of.

The city accommodates some large companies of which Nexans (cable-making), the company Taine (building), Dutoit (industrial cookie factory) like 4 specialized companies in the textile and clothes industry. It on the whole counts 225 companies, including 14 of more than 10 paid. 95 Companies intervene in the service sector, 89 in that of the trade and repairs, 29 in industry and 12 in the construction industry.

Economic ZAC of the Mayeux Mill extends on 24 hectares including 13 hectares of arranged surface, including/understanding a Hotel of companies

History

In the past named Bohain, the commune took the current name of Bohain-in-Vermandois in 1956.

  • Seigniory of Avesnes, ChâtilIon-Saint-pol., of Luxembourg, Bourbon-Vendôme, joined together with the royal field by Henri IV, then transmitted to Montluc-Balagny and Mailly-Nesles.

  • the borough was bitterly disputed during all the wars since the Middle Ages.

  • Formerly important textile center, whose factories closed the ones after the others, Bohain was formerly the capital of the textile: Napoleon 1st ordered from a weaver bohainois a shawl for Joséphine.Le weaving in Bohain is a tradition. It is indeed noted, by consulting the parochial registers of the 17th century, that one of the most widespread professions is that de" mulquinier" workman who manufactures fine fabrics. It is problable that in Bohain, this term appointed all the weavers.

From 1870, textile industry is directed towards the innovations for clothes industry, furnishing… Bohain enters during one time of economic prosperity. One counts towards 1895,10000 workmen of the textile working for Bohain. Famous houses of haute couture such RODIER and LESUR had installed their workshops in the city and Coco Chanel came regularly s'" to supply out of exceptional fabrics with Bohain

The Unemployment rate of this commune is high. Nevertheless the textile tradition lives again in Bohain recently since Bohain Textile gave to the day order an activity of creation and manufacture of linen room marketed in a shop located in the walls of the factory and called “of Bohain”.

Source: Site of the city

Origin of the name

Bohain comes from two terms of franque origin: “ boss ” (wood) and “ ham ” (village) i.e. the “village of wood”. The city was indeed surrounded, until 1836, of a thick forest of 1200 hectares.

Source: Site of the

city Administration

Successive mayors:

  • Charles Vatin († 1873)

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Church neo-gothic Saint Martin's day 1910 of style out of bricks
  • Town hall of the Flemish style
  • Feeding troughs and fountains
  • House Matisse

Principal equipment

  • College Henri Matisse
  • College of the Trades Holy Sophie (private education)
  • house of employment and the formation (http://www.mission-locale-02.net/fasild/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=25)
  • House of solidarity

Famous characters

  • Henri Matisse remained during a score of years in a house of the downtown area. Born in Cateau-Cambrésis in 1869, its family settles in 1870 in Bohain where Henri passes a little more than 20 years. Its presence in this city formed its taste for the textiles and their representations later under the sun of Sud.Il collects fabrics in its " small museum of échantillons". During its childhood, will ilregardera to work its neighbors in the gigantic workshops of weaving. The reasons and the colors for the printed fabrics, in particular for designers house RODIER, will exert without question, on its eye of artist, a déterminente influence.
  • Emile Flament painter fresquist born in Bohain in 1896.Il studies during 7 years in the Art schools de Paris.Médaillé with the 3 international exhibitions of Paris.Dès 1925 its career is directed towards the fresco. It in particular carried out the fresco which decorates the room of the marriages of the Town hall of Bohain in 1925.Cette work, always visible today, watch textile know-how and the richness of the city at that time. The majority of the characters of this fresco are of Bohainois.
  • Roger Provost, born the November 29th 1914, mayor of Villeneuve Garenne.

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