Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières

See also: Bonneville

Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-with-Fumadières is a common French, located in the department of the the Dordogne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières extends on the first slopes dominating the rich person valley from the the Dordogne.

History

The current name comes from fusion into 1836 of the communes of Bonneville and Saint-Avit-to-Fumadières .

Bonneville comes from Latin the bonavilla , which means “the good village”.

Saint-Avit took the name of an officer of the army of Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, which, made captive by Clovis, was converted with Christianity by Clotilde, queen of France.

Become hermit, it was withdrawn in the forest, close to Lanquais, and founded an oratory there before dying.

Administration

Demography

In 1864: 318

Places and monuments

  • Castle of Valadou, 17th century, where Pierre Loti

  • the old laundrette with remarkable fountain remained
  • the furnace of the 11th century
  • the arches in beautiful apparatus. Only vestiges of a mill built by Templiers on Lidoire
  • the church Saint-Jean-Baptist-of-Bonneville. Of Romance foundation, it belonged to Hospital of Saint-Jean-of-Jerusalem and concerned the commandery of Condat-on-Vézère. Devastated at the time of the wars of religion, it preserved its walls of XIe and 12th centuries and its restorations of the 15th century. The frontage is decorated of a gate of the Rebirth. The bell is gone back to 1699.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières on the site of the national geographical Institute

  • Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières on the site of INSEE
  • Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Bonneville-and-Saint-Avit-of-Fumadières on Mapquest

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