Canton of Lugny

The canton of Lugny is a administrative division French located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy.

Geography

This canton of the Arrondissement of Mâcon is organized around Lugny, its chief town, small capital of the Haut-Mâconnais. Its altitude varies from 168 meters (with Saint-Albain) to 550 meters (with Azé) for an average altitude of 235 meters.

It is limited by the following cantons: the Canton of Tournus in north, the Canton of Pont-de-Vaux (Ain) in the east, the Canton of Mâcon-North in the south, the Canton of Cluny and the Canton of Saint-Gengoux-the-National in the west.

From the point of view of the relief, the canton of Lugny is characterized in the west by a long tilted longitudinal dry valley towards the south, with the covered marly ground of vines (Cruzille, Bissy-la-Mâconnaise, Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé and Azé). Its center corresponds as for him to a compartmentalized zone whose exposure is it also more favorable to the culture of the vine, in particular in the sectors of Lugny and of Viré. Is canton (Montbellet, Fleurville, Saint-Albain, the Room) takes the shape of a terrace which, bordered by the the Saone, is the crossing point of several main roads of communication: the Trunk road 6, the Highway A6 and the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean railway line.

History

During all the revolutionary age, the canton of Lugny added up only twelve communes: Azé, Bissy-la-Mâconnaise, Burgy, Clessé, Cruzille, Lugny (its chief town), Fibula, Saint-Albain, Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé, Saint-Maurice-of-Meadows, Vérizet and Transfered. The communes of Chardonnay, Grevilly and Montbellet belonged then to the Canton of Tournus, the Room with that of Charnay-lès-Mâcon and Satonnay (called “Saint-Maurice-with-Satonnay” since March 1861, following the meeting by decree of the communes of Saint-Maurice-of-Meadows and Satonnay) with that of Saint-Sorlin. The commune of Bray, from the canton of Salornay-on-Guye of 1790 to 1801, entered on this date that of Lugny, passed in that of Cluny in 1839.

At the end of the month of July 1789, the majority of common the component this canton were the object of the exactions of the “revolted Brigands”, peasants who, during the Great fear, revolted in Mâconnais, being devoted to armed robberies against the castles and the ecclesiastical properties, symbols of the Ancien Mode. The castle of Lugny, property of Florent-Alexandre-Nickel silver of the Balsam (1736-1794), count of Montrevel and last lord of Lugny, was thus the first of the Mâconnais to being burnt by these “Brigands” (night from Monday the 27th to Tuesday, July 28).

The communes of the canton, registered in 1808 and 1809, appear among the first of France to be registered. The surface of the canton was then evaluated with fifteen thousand four hundred thirty-four hectares - quatre-vingt-sept thousand fifty-two pieces of property - including five thousand two hundred and five hectares of arable lands, three thousand and nine hundred seventy-four hectares of wood, two thousand seven hundred soixante-seize hectares of vines, one thousand and nine hundred soixante-treize hectares of meadows and eight hundred and twenty hectares of waste lands.

Administration

Since 2004, the general adviser of the canton of Lugny is André Peulet, Member of the permanent Commission and president of the commission “agriculture and forest” of the General advice of Saône-et-Loire.

Since the middle of the 19th century, the general advisers of this canton successively were: Louis-Nicolas Lacroix (of 1868 to 1871), Jean-Marie Bouilloud (of 1871 to 1901), Eugene Danjan (of 1901 to 1910), White Eugene (of 1910 to 1940), Joanny Huet (of 1945 to 1955), Nicolas Ducher (of 1955 to 1967), Rene Boudier (of 1967 to 1994) and Gilbert Mornand (of 1994 to 2004). During the Second world war, the departmental advisers were named by the Vichy government.

Composition

The canton of Lugny groups sixteen common and counts 7 420 inhabitants (census of 1999 without double accounts). These communes are the following ones: Azé, Bissy-la-Mâconnaise, Burgy, Chardonnay, Clessé, Cruzille, Fleurville, Grevilly, Lugny (chief town of the canton), Montbellet, Fibula, Saint-Albain, Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé, Saint-Maurice-with-Satonnay, the Room and Transfered.

|- | Azé || align=" right" | 940 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71016 |- | Bissy-la-Mâconnaise || align=" right" | 177 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71035 |- | Burgy || align=" right" | 90 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71066 |- | Chardonnay || align=" right" | 162 || align=" right" | 71700 || align=" right" | 71100 |- | Clessé || align=" right" | 700 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71135 |- | Cruzille || align=" right" | 231 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71156 |- | Grevilly || align=" right" | 37 || align=" right" | 71700 || align=" right" | 71226 |- | Lugny (chief town) || align=" right" | 798 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71267 |- | Montbellet || align=" right" | 654 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71305 |- | Fibula || align=" right" | 454 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71345 |- | Saint-Albain || align=" right" | 435 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71383 |- | Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé || align=" right" | 531 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71416 |- | Saint-Maurice-with-Satonnay || align=" right" | 346 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71460 |- | the Room || align=" right" | 440 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71494 |- | Transfered || align=" right" | 954 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71584 |- | Fleurville || align=" right" | 471 || align=" right" | 71260 || align=" right" | 71591 |}

Demography

Since 1962, the statistical data relating to the population of the canton of Lugny are the following ones:

Personalities related to the communes belonging to the canton

Among the personalities attached to the canton of Lugny appear in particular Bernard Barny de Romanet, Eugene Blanc, Henri Boulay and Emile Violet. Bernard Barny de Romanet, born on January 28th, 1894 with Saint-Maurice-with-Satonnay, was one of the most glorious French aces of the First World War with eighteen official victories gained between May 1917 and October 1918.

Eugene White, born on January 27th, 1876 with Lugny and deceased on January 29th, 1964 with Lugny, mayor of Lugny and general adviser of the canton of Lugny during about thirty years, played in the Twenties and Thirties a leading role in the creation and the development of the viticultural co-operative movement in Mâconnais.

Henri Boulay, born on July 14th, 1889 with Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé and deceased on October 7th, 1942 with Mâcon, is a French politician who was elected appointed S.F.I.O of Saône-et-Loire in the Thirties.

Emile Purple, born on April 3rd, 1877 with Clessé and deceased on March 26th, 1965 with Mâcon, is a local writer who was interested much in the Mâconnais.

Tourism

The vineyard of the Haut-Mâconnais is discovered by borrowing one of the six circuits of the Wine trail Mâconnais - Beaujolais created in 1986: the circuit number 2, buckles of an about sixty kilometers whose nine stages are: Lugny, Burgy, Transfered, Fleurville, Saint-Albain, Clessé, Fibula, Saint-Gengoux-with-Scissé and Bissy-la-Mâconnaise.

Twinning

Rather rare thing: the canton of Lugny was twinned with another canton, that of Saint-Jean-of-Mounts in the Vendée in fact.

Festivities

The Saint-Vincent cantonal, demonstration very appraisal of the population and the public, is the festival of the wine growers of the Haut-Mâconnais. Organized each year in a different commune, this go annual is the occasion for the particular wine growers and the cooperative wine caves of the canton to make taste the wines drawn from their last harvest.

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