Bucey-in-Othe
Bucey-in-Othe is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne.
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Places and monuments
Excavations: At the time of the meeting of the Academic Company of the Paddle, on June 21st, 1912, Lucien Morel-Payen, his Secretary, announces that one discovered a certain number of coffins at the time of excavations carried out by a private individual with the hamlet of Large-Chaast, to Bucey-in-Othe. The Parliament is moved and designated by it Mr Laverdet in the capacity as investigator. December 20th, this one returns account: “These excavations were undertaken by a sior Cottel on private properties, with the help of an important royalty with the owners. The contractor of the excavations settled for two months with the inn, with his wife and three workmen. Its research related to a surface of approximately 15 ares, on a cemetery mérovingien, to the north of the way says “the Way of the Romans”. Twenty sarcophagi, whose only one entirety, were updated, but it is impossible to know what the operator could find and carry, this one having habit to move away the workmen as soon as it had discovered a coffin and to collect itself its lucky finds in a carefully folded up cloth. Being given expenses that it was necessary, it is probable that these excavations have had to be profitable, if one judges some by the high full price that would have been sold, says one, inter alia objects, a vase out of glass.”Fifty years after the walks of the priest of Fontvannes on the field of the ruins, that Ci was of thus still archaeological interest. The waste is imagined…
It was decided that the Academic Company would make proceed to surveys with Bucey to see whether there would not remain yet burials to be explored, and that these operations would be done under the monitoring of one of its delegates for this purpose.
The sior Cottel rose, protested, forwarded to the Academic Company on February 21st, 1913 a letter in which it ensured that its research had an exclusively scientific goal, that they cost him much more than they did not pay. He even offered to give to the Museum of Troyes a certain number of archaeological artefacts which he had in double. More than twenty years after, on December 18th, 1936, one can read this communication in the report of this same Academic Company:
Loops mérovingiennes
“A great damascened money iron belt buckle and two inner loops of the same kind, time mérovingienne, indicated as coming from a tomb discovered in 1911 with Bucey-in-Othe (Paddle) and which belonged to the C.Cote collection, were sold with the Drouot Hotel on December 4th, 1936. These objects could not be acquired for the museum, the biddings having exceeded the sum for which a buying order had been given to the appraiser. The catalog of the sale of the collection contains a board reproducing the loops in question.” For were these some found and identified objects, how much others discovered at the time of these wild excavations?
One can dream. To imagine the protected site, excavated in the released good conditions, foundations. And, why not, the small Archaeological Museum of Bucey in Othe, rich person of all these lucky finds…
Little story of Bucey-in-Othe. R.P. Special issue of the Municipal Bulletin May 1995. (Source: Memory of the Academic Company 1912et 1936)
Visit church April 21st, 2005
One showed again only at the beginning of the 12th century Bucey is a poor village like so many others, at the houses vêtues of thatch. Grounds, grazing grounds, wood and forest constitute a small stronghold which depends on its lord. Some think that it concerned Villemaur, others of St Phal. (To be noted that figure always in the cadrastal map a way of Saint-Phal.) The history of the church, it is also the history of a family. One could not dissociate it from his will to be able. Two men: Manassés de Bucey and his/her Garnier brother. Manassés is canon of Saint-Pierre de Troyes. It is influential there. It made gifts with the important abbey of Saint-Wolf, where one of his/her other Gilles brothers is also canon.
Garnier, and his Mélissende wife, are the lords of Bucey where they have ground, forest and castle. A strong castle, whose trace of the keep appears in certain weather circumstances, just with the top from Pascal Fauconnier. In bottom, the vault of the castle. End XIe? XIIe beginning? A few blocks of stone bases buttresses and of a side of the apse attest its seniority. It accommodates also the churls, since Bucey is not parish but is attached to the village of Thuisy. On the other hand, Chaaz, community more important than Bucey, are parish. At the time Bucey is not a parish. But the Mathieu bishop can nothing refuse with his canon who transmits a request of “noble Garnier man” In 1180 Mathieu the church of Bucey of the parish of Thuisy detaches. It gives “with all its dependences “the church of Bucey to the Abbey of Saint Wolf. The church is named for the first time: “church of the Happy Saint-Jacob”. It will be further seen this truncated denomination - neither the Major one, nor the Minor - dependant on certain facts dating from the 19th century could lead certain historians to convey an error. Garnier gives to the church and the inhabitants the entirety use of his grazing grounds, of his wood, except the forest. He them free from straight to make grind their grain. The church in kind receives a revenue, a garden “since the Door of the ammunition until Plessis”, one mez, undoubtedly a smallholding. Two years later, it also gives a ground for the presbytery of what is yet only one vault, provided that it is set up in parish.
In 1190, Bucey “inherits” the parish of Chaaz. Loïce de Plancy, bishop of Troyes, note: “the poverty of the canons of Bucey… “ and also the fact that “the church of Chaaz cannot be sufficed any more for itself”. It gives the church of Chaaz with all its dependences to be “had with perpetuity by the church of the Happy Wolf, so that the vault of Jacques Saint in Bucey and the church of Chaaz make nothing any more but only one parish, one priory (*) and that they are entrusted to the care only one “ I quote the priest of Fontvannes, Pierre Louis Célestin Douge who in second half of the 19th century devoted whole pages to Bucey. It largely drew from the Charter of Cartulaire de Saint Wolf. When it is known as priory, it is of a priory-cure and not about a conventual house. The church of the Happy Wolf of which it is question is the Saint-Wolf Abbey. At the 12th century it had eight priory-cures in the diocese of Troyes. Mister the Abbot Lalore, professor of theology to the Great Seminar of Troyes at the end of XIXe comments on the cartulaire in these terms: “It is certain that the priories of Marigny and Bucey, at least during a certain time, were inhabited by canons. At the time Bucey was strengthened”. Let us retain that in fact “economic” reasons govern the fusion of the two communities in only one. Currently remain of their autonomy the first only system of the affouages.
I would like to now evoke some dates in order to make sensitive and alive this church which occupies a central place in the history of the village:
Construction of the vault undoubtedly at the 11th century: of this primitive vault, one can still see some enormous stones on one of the north-eastern buttresses and in the murde the apse. Whereas the church is entirely built out of chalk on are bases of flint louse of brick, the materials astonishes. It is about a very hard stone that with my connaissai-NCE one does not find in the Country of Othe. Nogentais? Area of Bar?
The church which succeeds the vault does not have its current form. In the shape of Latin cross it has only one transept. `
1740: construction of the current presbytery whose stables were destroyed at the end of the 19th century.
1785: widening of the transept by two collateral, and pavement in ground squares; one still carries the date with this inscription “Louis Roy” what tends to prove that a few years before the revolution, the divorce of with the royalty is not season for Bucetons. You can also read this date at the northern top, side presbytery, of the second span.
1789: it is at the conclusion of large the sung parochial Mass that the book of the complaints - almost remonstrances addressed to Louis XVI meet the foot-note corns of Bucey-in-Othe to sign. There are Roglet, Gatouillat, Toulouse, Genneret, Flogny, Laurant. They will elect their deputy, Bonnemain, which will represent them with the Parliament of the General states, in Versailles on April 27th, soon 216 years ago.
1793: the presbytery is sold like national good. it will belong to the commune which will resell it with the family of Gerard Holtz.
1847: terrible storm: “Water, after having flooded the new presbytery (house JM and ml Poisson) where they entered on the side top by the windows, and left by the walls old which they had bored in top, and after having filled the stables, left by the door which is just opposite the gate of this church where they precipitated with fury so as to compromise its solidity. In one moment, she saw herself encumbered water, of ground and gravel carted in mass in her enclosure, in manner that one was obliged to bore by behind the wall of the sacristy to make some run out water in the street”.
On this same date, 1847, place an episode which shows the temperament of Bucetons of the time. It is necessary to make a flashback.
They had always been in delicacy with their lords, because of the royalties that those required. They disputed in particular a judgment going back to 1632 which dispossessed them of 48 arpents forest to the profit of their lord. 150 years after, in 1785, the Marquis Of Réault inserts the nail: he claims unpaid royalties or the restitution of a new part of wood. The churls will counter-attack. Their lawyers will denounce the tyranny of the marquis who “abusoit of their ignorance, faisoit to groan under oppression…” During the Revolution, the lawsuit marks time. Meanwhile the seigneurial field was resold with the powerful family as of Rochefoucault-Liancourt. Bucetons will never find their 48 arpents.
But which relationship with the church tested by the storm? There was vis-a-vis the high altar, an old tombstone, as there are still some in Fontvannes or in Messon.C' fall to it D' Adérald was from Roère, lord of Esclavolles and his Louise wife of Madeil, died in the 17th century. Louise was the widow of Odard de Roffey which had been made spit properly on the board crossing Ru Saint-Bernard, For was the flood, necessary to embank the ground, to remake a pavement where it had been literally plowed? Stupidity? Certainly. Revenge? perhaps. Undoubtedly both. The worthy flagstone, testimony of the lords of formerly disappeared. Was it broken, hidden? Nothing makes it possible to say it. I then only citerPierre Louis Célectin Douge which is scandalized some: “One does not design how the authorities of this place had the incurie to let lose and destroy for always this only monument which their church contained because one does not find of it any more vestige nowhere awaited that the law made them obligation to preserve as the pupil of their eyes all the monuments which were attached to the histp oire of their country”. In first half of the 20th century one will note some unhappy interventions on the building, in the form of supposed cement coating to camouflage the ravages of time. But extremely fortunately a serious program of rehabilitation will be set up as from the Eighties which will lead to the repair, in the code of practice, the bell-tower, of the roof, several vaults of the apse and transept.
Presentation of the church The church such as we see it as a whole date 16th century. It is built on the slope of a small relief which emphasizes it. Per stormy weather I often thought of the church of Auvers-sur-Oise in the famous table of Van Gogh. The arrow of a large smoothness, covered out of slate, with its flaps of bells puts elegance at the top of the squat pace of the building. Everyone notices funny chime of Chinese invoice, would say one. It had a long time a leaning air. It east can be the moment to say all the attention from which this church profits which is not classified, but for which the successive municipalities voted important appropriations of repair: arrow, roof, vaults. The primitive vault was to be of modest size. The Douge abbot wrote that it had been extended to the 18th century, on the level of the transept. It however kept this pace of crypt, with this descent of some steps and these low and squat vaults. ” The arcs beams and the veins of vaults rest on pillars waves without capitals with bases with net waves and heel”. Honor to whom honor is due, it is the Happy Jacques who accommodates us. Saint-Jacob the Major one, of course. But will return we presently there. Nothing very particular, if not this simplicity, this whiteness which make truly a place of meditation of it. It is not here that you will discover exceptional statues or stained glasses. however, notice the invoice of these statues of XVIe: Holy Sebastien, Holy-Anne, MATER Dolorosa. The statue of the virgin is XIXe, and the rather representative one of art “Saint-Sulpicien”. Perhaps the painted statuettes come the old saintery from Vendeuvre on Barse. I could not affirm it. The virgin supported on the pillar, a gift, is XXe. The furnace bridges of the transept are surmounted simple retables decorated with painting with XIXe: an assumption of the Virgin; a disavowal of Saint-Pierre. As for the large table, a little in the shade, I will return there presently. Notice the swimming pool, hardly raised. Its level makes think that the ground was formerly much low. The ornament in the shape of shell which surmounts it could make think of some which it was about the famous shell that one finds throughout the ways which lead to Compostelle, and with the tomb of Saint-Jacob the Major one. Opinion of a certain number of people qualified, it of it is nothing. It is a simple architectural ornament, without value of symbol. Also notice this contemporary ground square of the repair of 1785 - date registered in top of collateral of the northern transept. It carries the inscription: “Louis King 1785”. It represents humble a testimony of the attachment of the people to his king, four years before the Revolution.
Stained glasses of XVIe remain only these two fragments. At the bottom of the apse, three episodes of the life of Christ: baptism, cene and handing-over of the Saint-Pierre keys. It is about a work carried out by the Champigneulle workshops in Bar-le-Duc in 1891. At the ends of the apse, two stained glasses of the Vinum workshop in Troyes, going back to 1847, represent Holy-Therese de Lisieux canonized in 1925 and Saint-Éloi, owner of the peasants.
A description and a beautiful drawing of the church were carried out in the years 1880 by Fichot. Indexed in its monumental statistics of the Paddle, its research led to an error which is always reflected more than one hundred years afterwards. It places the church of Bucey under the patronage of Saint-Jacques-the-Minor Work that I led in connection with this confusion enabled me to erect scaffolding an assumption. When Fichot comes in Bucey the beautiful polychrome statue of the 15th century representing Saint Jacques the Major one with his pilgrim's staff and its double sack was relegated. The guns of the beauty then privilege this art Saint-Sulpicien of which we see some specimens. The old statue is not a beautiful statue. The Feugé abbot will find it in the roofs only in 1946. On the other hand, Fichot finds, behind the high altar an imposing retable, whose woodworks are committed in the veins of the vaults. There remains only large-sized central painting about it. With évêché one is not even certain that she survived the evacuation of the retable since the written archivist: “one, table representing holy Jacques the Minor exists (or existed) in the church”. He is well there, in poor state he is true. He represents the martyrdom of Saint-Jacob the Minor under the wall of the temple from where he was precipitated. The head chenue of the old man is illuminated by the grace of martyrdom whereas the torturer prepares to complete it using an enormous mallet, the fuller, in the tradition… It should be imagined under the Second Empire, trônant behind the high altar. In front of this retable placed or it is, Fichot is founded to believe that it is well the Minor who takes care on Bucey. Let us add to that the employers' festival does not take place on July 25th, day of St Jacques the Major one, but in May for St Jacques the Minor. With that an explanation: the farmers did not want to lose a day of harvest… It is thus about certain that during a certain time the reference to Saint Jacques the Major one was forgotten by the village community: Bucetons had chosen most practical of the two apostles. Fichot deceived by the retable open, monumental, but also by the reality of a parish which does not refer any more to Saint Jacques the Major one, place thus the church under the patronage of Philippe saint and St Jacques, since these two companions of Christ are inseparable. It is true that the mention of Major is not specified in the writings of the 12th century. But the fact even as St Philippe is not quoted accredits the thesis of a dedication to the Major one. It appears in a text of 1784 and évêché of Troyes in the ordo diocese makes it appear. It does not remain about it less than one certain number of historian buildings, whose Morel-Payen, stick to patronage of St Philippe and St Jacques the Minor, in the tread of Fichot. More recently Jeanne Martel and Jeanine Velut are unaware of even St Jacques in their book on the country of Othe. Referring to its origin, they écriven: “the church dedicated to Philippe saint was the vault of the castle”, which, strictly speaking , do not appear nowhere.
Let us return to the statue of St Jacques. Its recent grooming as well as the treatment against the worm-hole have peuêtre made to him lose part of what remained to him of polychromy. But it was necessary if one wanted to preserve it, and especially to leave it in its place in its church. It should be approached profile to feel all the spirituality which emerges some. This right posture, this fine profile, this will which emerges some represent well this apostle whom Christ described as “wire of the thunder” because, one says, of his impetuous nature. And it is, if you want it well, on that to which is dedicated our small church that this visit will finish. 5visite organized by Robert Poisson for the academic Company of the Paddle on April 21st, 2005)
The site of the old castle of Bucey Indeed, the church or vault of Bucey, according to a charter of the cartulaire of Saint-Wolf, was built a little before the Church of Chaast was joined together to him. It was built, according to Courtalon, on a bottom pertaining to the chapter of Saint-Etienne de Troyes (*), not far from the castle of Bucey, then built a little higher, in a ground of a splendid aspect, called still today, the Field of the Castle. One still sees the round on which this antique feudal manor had sat. “When the ground was coldly plowed, one could see clearly, under certain conditions of lighting, the drawing of the old foundations. Just opposite Mr Valenti. The round well was seen of what had had to be the keep and which made twenty meters in diameter well”. (cf max Toulouse, mayor, in " Little story of Bucey" , Municipal Bulletin, Special issue, May 1995, R. Poisson.) Contrary to the generally accepted ideas, the feudal castle was destroyed well before the Revolution of 1789. On a plan of the Seigniory of Bucey-in-Othe going back to 1702 it is illustrated by a drawing evoking the shape of the keep. Several people confirmed to me that under certain conditions, one saw still recently the traces of them, all at the end of the street of the Presbytery, on the right, on the slope.
Description of the current castle of Bucey
It is only later that this castle was given up by its owners and was rebuilt low in the place where there exists still almost in its entirety. It presents a species of perfect square, surrounded by flanked walls of a tower to each angle, of which two are round and two are quarrées (sic), with ditches dug with the foot external of the walls and filled with waters running. One notices there one of the principal doors of entry. They is arched out of full-swifter with several separate compartments of remote distance, by nonparallel arches, so that one returns on a side while the other made covered, done everything in the taste of the military architecture of the Middle Ages (***). One sees the place where the harrow went down and, outwards, the two iron pivots where the drawbridge thrown on the ditch turned and which one raised using large chains of iron. Contrary to the generally accepted ideas, the feudal castle was destroyed well before the Revolution of 1789. On a plan of the Seigniory of Bucey-in-Othe going back to 1702 it is illustrated by a drawing evoking the shape of the keep. Several people confirmed to me that under certain conditions, one saw still recently the traces of them, all at the end of the street of the Presbytery, on the right, on the slope. Windows made with modern were, to give day, open in the thickness of the walls of defense and in the turns, but that does not prevent from recognizing the primitive destination of these old feudal constructions, with the still open loopholes which one sees appearing of place in place, especially in the walls of the turns.
This châtea belonged to Mr Costel, former notary with Estissac, which, says one, would have bought it of Mr. de Florigny de Theil which held it of Mr. marquis Of Réaux; It was used a long time as house of exploitation to the farmer with whom this field was rented. .
Personalities related to the commune
lords of Bucey and Chaast give a trust for honorary rights. Their fine tragedy.
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Courtalon tells that in a 1616 “Lord of Bucey and that of Chaast, in dispute for honorary rights, gave a trust (*) to leaving the mass. It presented a brook to be passed on a board. Dispute courtesy. That which passed the first felt suddenly wounded in the back; but, being turned over, it still had enough force to thread its attacker” Like Courtalon the name of this Lord says, neither which brook they had to cross, nor the honorary rights which were the object of their argument and from the trust which was followed from there to leaving the mass, we go from our better trying to compensate for this omission. The Lord of Bucey in this time could be only Odard de Roffey (**), Seigneur of Fontvannes and Bucey. He had as a wife in 1616 Louise de Madeil (**) of which he held the Seigniory of Bucey. The latter, widow of this Odard de Roffey from which we come to speak will remariera in 1620 with Aderald of Roère, Seigneur of Esclavolles and Bucey. It is the latter which had been buried like his wife in the nave of the Church of Bucey, in the medium, in front of the entry of the sanctuary and from which fall it has unfortunately, with the inscription which it carried, perished in 1847, as we said. In an act of the eleven August 1615, Odard de Roffey took also the title of Lord of Chaast. However, at that time, the Lord of Chaast was Charles the Binder, and took the title of Sieur de Chaast and the Ditches.
As these two lords of Bucey and Chaast were the only lords of these places at the time which Courtalon assigns, it follows that it rigorously from there perhaps only these same which had wild courage to be gone to beat in duel while leaving to achieve an act of religion. According to a so extreme resolution, one would be tempted to believe that these rights about which Courtalon speaks and for the defense of which these two champions went so ardently to death were of an major importance. At all especially if we consider them with our ideas of today. Because their argument came quite simply from what both claimed with the priority right in the reception of the blessed bread distributed to the parochial mass. Both claimed with the honor to receive it the first, which was not easy thing. Was the question to be regulated with blows of sword? One would laugh today at similar arguments (*). But it was well different in a century when the company was hierarchically organized; where the consideration was exclusively attached to the rows and titles. Tiniest of the prerogatives was thing of great importance. That which received the bread blessed the first had necessarily precedence of all the assembly and was consequently, the first of all. And that of the Lords to whom one gave the bread blessed after his fellow-member had to appear humiliated near its vassal, if it had reasons to believe that these honors were due for him rather than to its rival. However, we are far from approving the barbarian resolution whom they took nor the unfair action to which one of them was delivered and which cost him the life while wanting to save it. The brook that these two lords had to pass on a board can be only the Brook known as “of Saint-Bernard” in lately, because it takes his source to the Largeone in pre called the pre one of Saint-Bernard. After sprinkled valley and passed with bottom of Bucey this brook throws in Valve, a little further, so that, when one comes on the side of Fontvannes to enter in Bucey or when one wants to leave this village to move to the bottom on the side of Fontvannes, one is obliged to cross this brook.
Formerly, at the end of the street which is right to bottom of the church, always towards North, one passed it to ford for the cars. There was not the bridge that one sees there today. A board undoubtedly, or a beam placed at side, was used as footbridge for people of foot. And it is while passing on this board that the lords of Bucey and Chaast found death.
If they were turned over from there on their premises while waiting for the day when they were to empty their quarrel, it was well the way to both, either to go to the castle of Bucey, or to go to the castle of Large or Small-Chaast. But once this pastoral bridge passed, they could not travel any more together, because it was necessary continuation to turn the back to gain each one its manor. (Extracted the Notebooks from the abbot Pierre-Louis Célestin Douge, priest of Fontvannes, village close, fine of the 19th century - in Bucey-in-Othe and its hamlets of Robert POISSON).
JEAN-THOMAS BONNEMAIN
One finds his signature with the bottom of the Book of the complaints of the parish of Bucey-in-Othe 1789. Elected to the constyituante, it will cross without problem the revolutionary age. He will not vote the death of the King.
See too
- Common of the Paddle
External bonds
- Bucey-in-Othe on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Bucey-in-Othe on the site of INSEE
- Bucey-in-Othe on the site of Quid
- Localization of Bucey-in-Othe on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Bucey-in-Othe on Mapquest
- forum on Football Club of Bucey in Othe
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