Cabrerets

Cabrerets is a common French, located in the department of the Lot and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

The village of Cabrerets owes its name with the etymological root pulls up , which means goat in Langue of oc.

Geography

With the Confluent of the Sagne and That, the village niche with the foot of cliff of Rochecourbe, immense wall in overhang, to which the ruins of a medieval Château are hung.

The pilgrimage of Compostelle

The village is on the Via Podiensis Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle.
One comes from Sauliac-on-That, the next commune is Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.
Shortly after the exit of the village the jacquets joined those which had passed by Cajarc and the valley of the Lot

History

The high cliff in overhang of Rochecourbe dominates the village and carries on its vertical the ruins of a “castle of the English”, known as also " castle of the diable" , hung with a cornice.
Still equipped with a tower and a mullioned window, it was mentioned in an act of 1259 and was initially with the Moyen-âge the residence of the lords of Barasc.
During the War One hundred Year old, it fell in 1380 to the hands from the large companies to the service from the English from Aquitaine, from where its name.
Ten years later, Jean d' Hébrard, Lord of Saint-Sulpice, took it again, disencumbered of them the Brigand S and demolished it.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Downstream from Cabrerets, dominating the road of 25 m, the castle, with a terrace at balustrade and an interior court, flanked of a gross tower of angle. Built to the 13th century, rebuilt to XVIe, it belonged to the marshal-duke Charles de Gontaut-Biron, friend of Henri IV and traitor with this king.

Bought at the 19th century by the count Murat, deputy of the Batch, which undertook the restoration of it. It is registered with the inventory of the sites.

the Cave of the Pech Merle.

It shelters the one of most beautiful decorated sanctuaries Paléolithique S; seven rooms out of 1200 m of course to discover Mammoth S, bisons, horses, human figuration, but also negative hands and moving traces by step.

To 3 km upstream of Cabrerets:

A Resurgence, called " Resurgence of Pescalerie" , is visible since the road. An old mill used the energy provided by this brook. A Museum of the strange one: Humor and Nonsense with go.

Personalities related to the commune

Andre David: Speleologist
Amédée Lemozi: Prehistorian with which one must, inter alia, the study of the Grotte of the Pech Merle. It was cleaned of Cabrerets of 1919 to 1962. The museum of prehistory of the Pech Merle bears its name.
Andre Niederlender

See too

Common of the Batch

Stage

External bonds

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

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