Carcès

Carcès (in Occitan Of Provence Carces according to the traditional standard and the Standard mistralienne) is a common French, located in the department of the Var and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Geography

Village of the center VAr located at the confluence of the Argens and the mainly known Caramy for its lake: The lake of the Fountain of Gorse (called “Lake Carcès commonly”) of more than 100 hectares and 8 kilometers of banks.

History

Carcès is a village of 2.453 inhabitants and a surface of 3.576 hectares (that is to say 69 inhabitants with the square kilometer, according to sources INSEE 1999), at an altitude of 115 meters. It is a health resort which was the third town of France lit with the electricity (since 1889). The communal electric factory was located on the confluence of the Argens (which is thrown to the sea with Fréjus) and of the Carami. The picturesque sites and the shaded edges of its rivers, as well as many marked out pedestrian paths, attract each year of many in love with nature.

The Middle Ages

The origin of the name could come from the Romains which would have established in this place a prison. On the spur which dominates the confluence of the Argens and the Carami as well as the four access roads to the village, the first lords of Carcès, Châteaurenard, extremely drew up in the year 1000 the first . In two charters of 1085 and 1099, Bertrand and Berenger, bishops of Frejus, restored with the abbey of Saint-Victor of Marseilles, the church of Holy-Marie-of-Pignans Holy-Marie-of-Barjols and all the churches located in the valley of Carcès (of which Our-Lady-in-Carami Carcès). In 1235, when Raymond Béranger made make the census of the rides which were due for him in the diocese of Frejus, the castle of Carcès was taxed with a knight. The seigniory of Carcès belonged at that time to Guillaume de Cotignac, and passed successively, like that of Cotignac, in the family of Pontevès starting from 1240, which raised a castle of which there remain important ruins today. Then in the families of Simiane, of Rohan-Soubise and Cop.

The village was pointed out during the wars of religion starting from 1562. The count de Carcès, Jean de Pontevès, large seneshal and lieutenant of the king, was with the head of the catholics the “Carcistes” or “Marabouts”, name which meant “cruel and wild”. He fought against Razats of the marshal of Retz which was pressed on the lords of Oppède, Speech and Germany. The two camps devastated the Provence, extreme, violating and perpetrating other cruelties. The Parlement condemned initially the control of the carcists and made it possible “to run on them and to cut them in parts”. With this order, part of Provence took the weapons and, in few days, sixty-six carcists perished in front of Cuers, four hundreds were sabred with Cabasse and as much found death in front of Lorgues. All the garrison of the castle the Trans one had passed to the wire of the sword and Carcès had its safety only on arrival in Provence of Catherine de Médicis.

By letters patent of March 1571, the seigniory of Carcès was set up in county, with handing-over of the grounds of Cotignac, Flassans, Pourqueirolles, Castle-Nine, Blioux, the Soft one, Tavernes, Brue, Artignosc, Tourtour, and with being able to establish a lieutenancy with the seat of this county to consider the first names arising at the Parliament of Aix: sit which was established the November 22nd 1573. These favors were granted by the king Charles IX to Jean V of Pontevès, to reward it for the services that it had returned to him during the wars of religion.

The revolutionary Club of Carcès

Founded the August 4th 1792, the “Company patriotic” is established with the district known as of “Under-City” in a room where Barras gave conferences for exalter the revolutionary faith of Carçois. To show their patriotism, they engraved on the walls of the room of the Club the “revolutionary Commands of the Mountain” whose the secret societies were inspired by the 19th century.

Church of Carcès

The old church of Carcès, founded in 1085 and devoted in 1152 by a bubble of the pope Eugene III, was located close to the current cemetery and ensured the parochial service until in 1779. As she threatened to become a ruin (she was demolished in 1787) the worship was transferred to the vault of the Penitent-White, now disappeared, then, in 1781, with the vault of Augustins which then became the current church of Carcès.

The current church, in 1561, the lord Jean de Pontevès (of which he became count in 1572) called in Cacrès some monks augustins of Brignoles and their a vault finished in 1573 made build. Of late Romance style, it has a beautiful gate Renaissance where was added to the 19th century the small group of three saints: Victor, Constant and Libérat. In the act of concession which bound the count with the monks was stipulated that the countess would have her particular vault. This one was built outside and a window, now blocked, was bored in the wall of the chorus, thus making it possible the countess to follow the offices. The whole was finished in 1582. One can still see the wall and the door of this vault behind the church. The Monastère located at the site of the current post office was separated from the Chapelle by a Cloître; these two constructions disappeared. In 1676, a monk of origin carçoise, Perrin brother, monk in Thoronet, brought back Rome of the relics of the saints Victor, Constant and Libérat, it was decided to place the vault under their protection.

In 1781, the vault of Augustins became the church of Carcès by decision of monseigneur Beausset, bishop of Toulon. After the revolutionary upheaval, the church, where the worship had taken again in 1804, was devoted to holy Marguerite.

During first half of the 19th century, the church increases by the addition of side chapels, the construction of a platform and the raising of the bell-tower of four meters, because the bell was not heard in all the village. This bell, which weighs more than seven hundred kilograms, goes back to 1546: inscription: “JOHAN OF PONTEVES BARON OF COTIGNAC CESNOR OF CARCES”, it is classified historic building since 1981. The bell-tower grows rich by two other bells, one baptized Marguerite in 1847, the other baptized Florence in 1950.

Caption of Cabro d' Or

At one time in Provence, there was no Paysan S without Chèvre, and even downtown, of the goats walked in the streets. Every morning, up to 9 or 10 hours, the shepherdesses of the neighborhoods arrived in the city and were installed with their goats, on the public places to milk at the request of shouting: “Bouen lach fresc! ” (Good fresh milk!) Later in the course of the day, the shepherdesses returned to sell “reheated” and curdled milk: “Lei broussos of Rove! ” (very famous bush of the race of the goats of Provence “Rove”).

But if the provençaux peasants generally at least had a goat with the farm, it was one which they could never catch: it was the “Cabro d' Or”, it made the chronicle of taken care, the peasants would have seen it close to a cave, on a hill, at the edge of a source, because only this goat fairy knew the place where the Trésor hid and could seize it that which would catch it! This legend, in Provence, goes up at the time of the Sarrasin S, but in Carcès, one tells that per time of full the Moon and mistral, the silhouette of a “Rove” would be profiled among the stones of the castle, and, the rosy one helping, it could lead you well to the treasure of the “Cabro d' Or” hidden by the Templiers in some underground of the castle.

Lake Carcès

Thanks to the lake of Fountain-in Ajonc (called commonly “Lake Carcès”), which stores eight million cubic meters of water, for a surface of more than one hundred hectares with eight kilometers of bank, Toulon is fed for nine million cubic meters, and the navy and the communes of the Toulon-native belt gathered in two intercommunity associations (Seyne, Hyères, Carqueiranne, Crau, the Londe-the-Moors, Lavandou, Bormes-the-Mimosas, Solliès-Pont, Solliès-City, Farlède, Pierrefeu, Collobrières, the Valette-of-VAr, the Guard, Pradet) for eighteen million cubic meters. It was built of 1934 with 1939. In 1935, the town of Toulon conceded the exploitation of the sterilization of the Ozone (proceeded of Mr. Otto which makes it possible to have final drinking water and not chlorinated) of water of Saint-Anthony and Dardennes with the ozone and Water-company. The initial concessions were enlarged of twenty endorsements during the years, which obliged with a new drafting in 1980. But it was always stipulated, in the various versions, that the bathe and navigation on the lake were prohibited, for safety reasons: indeed, the possibility of water pumping during the dry period can cause a drop in the level of water brutally from five to ten meters. Contrary, the existence of valves roofs on the stopping, makes it possible to make assemble the level of two meters and half in addition to the normal level. As information, the stopping is drained every ten years. The work planned for this draining is quantified with 690.000 euros, i.e. the commune of Toulon does not intend to give up the sources out of water of the Lake Carcès which cover the major part of its needs, and which this one is not ready to be able to be arranged at tourist ends or leisures.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the old city (quoted medieval)
the Tower of the Clock and the four season old fountain on the place of the town hall
the Holy church Marguerite
the vault Notre-Dame de Carami (Notre-Dame of Good-Help)
the confluence of Argens and Carami
the theater full sky Laurent Gerra

attached Personalities: -------------------------------- The famous imitator Laurent GERRA is an enthusiast in love with Carcès; moreover, he one is accustomed of " Cabro d' Or" , restoring it mascot of the village.

See too

Common of the VAr

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