Bulgnéville
Bulgnéville is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.
Its inhabitants is called the Bulgnévillois .
Geography
Bulgnéville is served by the highway A31; the exit, n°9, driving in the common neighbors of Contrexéville and Vittel, interest also the users of Épinal.The principal local employer is the Cheese dairy of the Hermitage.
History
Inhabited at the time Gallo-Roman, the locality is mentioned in 1172 under the name of Bagneole .Archaeological discoveries attest of a Gallo-Roman presence (to be seen with the museum). The site of Bulgnéville was then occupied by the Mérovingiens as the cemetery discovered in the center of the village at the end of the 19th century proves it. Become a fortified town with the the Middle Ages, Bulgnéville developed thanks to fairs. It is during the disturbed time of terrible the One hundred Year old war that the name of Bulgnéville took a dramatic consonance. Indeed, on July 2nd 1431, its territory was the theater of disastrous the Bataille of Bulgnéville which opposed the free-Lorraine troops of the young duke Rene 1st to Anglo-Burgundian combined to Antoine de Vaudémont for the succession to the Lorraine throne after the death of Charles II, battles besides lost by the first.
Origin of the conflict: A Lorraine war of succession which is, all in all, an episode of the One hundred Year old war: The count de Vaudémont (1416-1458) Antoine disavows the policy of his father Ferry (1393-1415) died in Azincourt and puts himself at the service of king d' Angleterre. The duke Disavows, successor of his father-in-law Charles-II duke of Lorraine, deceased in 1431, nap his cousin (and rival) Antoine to make him homage and, imprudently, engages the hostilities. Antoine receives important helps of Burgundian and the English. Rene is helped by the quotas of king de France: under its banner goes the famous one and chivalrous Barbazan Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan (1360-1431). The insane Lorraine knighthood is made beat by the army of Antoine, ordered better, armed better, equipped with excellent Picardy and English archers and couleuvrines. Barbazan, which one did not take the advice, was killed. Rene was made prisoner and taken along in captivity to the ducal palate of Dijon, in the tower which preserved the name of turn of Bar. The things returned later on in the order by the marriage of Yolande of Anjou, girl of Disavows with Ferry-II (wire of Antoine) count de Vaudémont (1458-1470) and whose Rene-II son was count de Vaudémont, duke of Lorraine and duke of Bar.
The House of Vaudémont, downward by the puînée branch of the House of Alsace (Gerard of Alsace 1048-1070) currently has like direct descent by the males the House of Habsbourg: François-III (1708-1765) count de Vaudémont, duke of Lorraine, duke of Bar, marries Marie-Therese of Austria.
The Guerre Thirty Year old came to break the economic advancement of the village after the Moyen-âge. Its fortress was dismantled and the village was crossed per number of troops and mercenaries until in 1650.
Sit of a baronnie since several years, known Bulgnéville a dynamism meaning at the 18th century. With the new castle of the family Of the Rooms, Bulgnéville becomes an economic center with its four fairs, its market weekly magazines its many craftsmen tanners, basket makers, potters… Of baronnie, the village becomes the center of a seigniory which is set up in marquisat in 1708, seigniory which does not count less than 13 villages.
A convent of Récollets fathers comes to build as of 1709, then a hospital in 1714, Bulgnéville, which counts towards 1710 more than 600 inhabitants, gathers at the 18th century all the factors to make an urban center of it.
Chief town of canton of 1.000 inhabitants after the Revolution, agriculture becomes an economic reason with the Milk industry which takes its rise about 1930.
; Blasonnement: Gold with three stakes of mouths to the stick of azure perished in band stitching on the whole.
- They are the weapons of the house of Bulgnéville, according to Cayon. For its part, Stone-block known as: with the engrelée band of azure . This family of old the Chevalerie would be extinct probably at the 15th century.
Curiosities
- Fountains of the 18th century
- Church Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul (retable and legend of the three Marie)
Administration
Demography
Famous characters
- the actress and director Solveig Dommartin passed its childhood in the locality.
External bonds
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Site of the Judo club of Bulgnéville
- Site of the Town hall of Bulgnéville
- Bulgnéville on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Bulgnéville on the site of INSEE
- Bulgnéville on the site of Quid
- Localization of Bulgnéville on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Bulgnéville on Mapquest