Ceilhes-and-Rocozels

Ceilhes-and-Rocozels , in Occitan Selha E Rocosèls , are a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Ceilhes decides like " abeille". Its inhabitants is called the Ceilhois .

Geography

Ceilhes-and-Rocozels (34) is located close to the border between Herault and Aveyron, between Lodève and Camarès.

The village was built on Right Bank of the Orb, between the Monts of Espinouse and those of the Escandorgue, with the feet of the the Cevennes.

History

As of the Gallo-Roman Period, the site was exploited for its mines  ; in remain the vestiges of the village of Lascours (as of the 2nd century before JC). This activity continued with period until in 1959.

With the the Middle Ages, it village develops as testify some to many elements of architecture and the castle of Bouloc is built in the plaine  ; it will be the refuge of lords of Rocozels, who will know a great destiny with creation in 1736 of the duchy-peerage of Fleury.

The village was famous for its important cattle fairs which goes back to The Middle Ages and which perduré until the 20th century. Ceilhes was then one very active small town.

Today, the mines and the factories closed, drowned by the stopping of Avène.

Ceilhes turns from now on to its exceptional, built and natural inheritance, and confirm its tourist vocation.

http://www.ceilhes.com

Demography

Places and monuments

The Church Saint-Jean-Baptist of Ceilhes

The Church Saint-Jean-Baptist of Ceilhes date of the 12th century. It is a Romance church which was strengthened at the 14th century.

Ramparts

The specialists call them " Fortification of agglomération". The ramparts of Ceilhes date from the Middle Ages. They were built at 13th and the 14th centuries. The door of enclosure is remarkable. The ramparts include the Église Saint-Jean-Baptist of Ceilhes which way its parts Southern and is strengthened at the time of their contruction. They underwent repairs in 1621 (date registered on a stone in re-employment) after the catch of Ceilhes by Joyeuse in 1586. In 1621,1622,1629, the reinforcement of the place of Ceilhes is ordered because of its importance for the service of the king.

The place of Griffoul

The place of Griffoul is the place of most known Ceilhes. Griffoul is the fountain of the village. Its name means fountain or spouting spring (grifol in patois).

The place of Griffoul is in the center of the village. It is thought that it dates from the 18th century.

Dimensions of Griffoul
  • Height 2,70 meters;
  • Capacity: 5000 liters;
  • Diameter: 3,30 meters.

Taoutas

Taoutas (water hole in patois), is small the Lac of Ceilhes. This artificial water level was dug in 1963. The dam which surrounds it and which makes it possible to people to walk around was set up in the middle of the plain, almost with the top of the Castle of Bouloc, old residence of Bernardin of Rosset de Rocozels who had married on February 4th, 1680 Marie de Fleury, sister of the Cardinal of Fleury, minister of Louis XV.

The Castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes

The Fortiam Bonoloco (" Extremely of Bonlieu") built with the Middle Ages towards the end of Xe century or at the beginning of XIe century (existence attested in 1025), had been deeply transformed with XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries by the Rosset de Rocozels become Rosset de Rocozels of Fleury. Previously it had belonged to the seigneuriales families of Alban and Promillac. During the Revolution, the last lord of Bouloc Andre-Hercules-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Rocozels duke and par of Fleury gained the foreigner to join the army of the emigrants. His wife Aimee de Coigny duchess of Fleury, friend very close to the queen Marie-Antoinette had been imprisoned under the Terreur and had been saved of accuracy of the scaffold by the fall of Robespierre. The castle of Bouloc and the other properties of the duke were sold like national good with one manufacturing of cloths of Lodève.

In 1964, the castle of Bouloc was shaved by the National company of the Low-Rhone at the time of the setting in water of the stopping of Avène intended to contain the risings of Orb. The pillars of the gate of honor set up at the XVIIIe century and surmounted fire pots were dismounted and transferred to Montpellier, where they decorate the entry of the zoo of Lunaret. Most of the stones of the castle of Bouloc was employed again for construction in 1965 of the orthodoxe monastery Saint Nicolas of the hamlet of Dalmerie located on the common neighbor of Joncels. Located 8 kilometers downstream the dam Avène at its maximum level of filling flooded only the lower parts of the castle. Simple a four meters height dam would have made it possible to safeguard this invaluable element of the inheritance of the Languedoc. But it was decided by it differently and this symbol of the Old mode in charge of thousand years of history disappeared to leave the place to a water level: Taoutas. This old extremely medieval was drawn up proudly in the plain to a few hundred meters in the south-west of the village of Ceilhes opposite current Café of the Lake, and in edge of the way old also called Peyral (D902 secondary road) where still the old sheep-fold of the castle remains, known as " Firm of the Building industry ".

Sources: Charles Bonami, In the high valley of Orb, nine centuries of history (1025-1964). The old castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes in Languedoc. Jurisdiction, lords, the castle . Rodez: Subervie, 1974,70 p.

The " Firm of Bâtiment" , old dependence of the Castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes

Andre-Hercules-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Rocozels de Fleury (1767-1810), last lord of Rocozels de Bouloc de Ceilhes and also last duke and par of of Fleury was dispossessed of its properties of Ceilhes under the terms of the application of the decree of the legislative Parliament in date September 2nd, 1792, confiscating the goods of the emigrants. In addition to the Castle of Bouloc, grounds and chestnut groves, this field included/understood also the mill of Tali " in Malpas" destroyed in 1861, the hamlet of Grind-High shaven in 1962-1963 by the Company of the Low-Rhone (during work of the stopping of Avène), the Farmhouse of Meaux, and a sheep-fold: current farm known as of the " Bâtiment" located at the " Jump of Cappelos". Mentioned in the feudal recognitions of 1489 and 1567, it was sold like national good year II of the Republic (1794). The architectural structure of this sheep-fold is typical constructions of the valleys caussenardes. The load-bearing walls a width of more than one meter at the base and the fenestrous give him a defensive pace. Probably built at the end of the Middle Ages, this sheep-fold was also intended to protect from the plunderers the animals and harvests of the lords of Bouloc. A vault from of full-clotheshanger in form of a long tunnel isolates from the herd the stage of dwelling which one reaches by a driving staircase external with vast a " balet" (perron) cover of the XVIIIe century. The roof with long sides rests on barrel vaults. This old sheep-fold which also has a cellar with cheese (for the roquefort), was indexed with the Inheritance of France in 1986 just like nearly a score of houses of the village, of which the old market with the grains (of XVe century) near the fountain of Griffoul.

The Romance bridge

Upstream of the village, a beautiful bridge of Romance style, probably built in XIVe century crosses the course of the Orb. He points out that of Espalion in Aveyron. Constituted of three arches separated by triangular pier-heads, it makes it possible to go to Joncels since Ceilhes by the secondary road D8. In the vicinity an old mill with a beautiful mullioned window is.

The Notre-Dame Vault

It is located at the east of Ceilhes, in direction of Salvagnac and parks it. It dates from the 12th century.

The Church of Rocozels

The church of the hamlet of Rocozels is the old vault of the medieval castle now disappeared from the feudal family of the Rocozels which gave to XIIe and XIIIe centuries two bishops: Guillaume IV (bishop of Béziers) and Raymond III (bishop of Lodève). It is a Romance church whose porch would date from XIIe century. The bell-tower, voûtement of the chorus and the nave would be of XIIIe century. It was transformed at the beginning of the XVIIIe century, as the date of 1709 engraved with the top of the main door attests it where figure also the blazon with the weapons of Rocozels. The two capitals decorated on each face with a palmette and each angle with a floret, come from the vault disappeared from Our-Lady-of-Ubertes, which was on the same commune. The church was the subject of a classification to the Historic buildings in 1986.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Raymond III of Astolphe de Rocozels , bishop of Lodève (1263-1280)

  • the Cardinal of Fleury , minister of Louis XV, of which the sister Marie married Bernardin of Rosset de Rocozels, lord of the castle of Bouloc-lez-Ceilhes

  • Andre-Hercules de Rosset de Rocozels de Fleury (1715-1788) . Brigadier, governor and lieutenant-general of Lorraine, first Gentleman of the Room of the king Louis XV, governor and Acute-Dead viguier of .

  • Henri-Marie-Bernardin de Rosset de Rocozels de Fleury (1718-1781), archbishop of Turns (1751-1774), then archbishop-duke of Cambric (1774-1781)

  • Andre-Hercules-Marie-Louis de Rosset de Rocozels de Fleury (1767-1810), last even Duke and of Fleury . He married in 1785 Anne-Francoise-Aimee de Franquetot de Coigny.

  • Anne-Francoise-Aimee de Franquetot de Coigny (1769-1820) , duchess of Fleury, woman of letters, educated by Madam de Guéménée (controlling children of Louis XVI).

  • Abbot Antoine Tarroux (? - 1877) , founder of the Congregation of the tiny Sisters of the Christian Doctrines .

Associations and Festivities

The associative medium is very developed with Ceilhes-and-Rocozels. Various associations such that the Ceilhoise Ball, the Rural household of Ceilhes and Rocozels, the other and festival committee well animate the rural life of the village.

The votive Festival of Ceilhes takes place first Monday of August, except exception where it can be shifted one week front not to encroach on those of the villages in the neighborhoods.

The Festival of the Meetings of Ceilhes, or Festival of the Musics of Ceilhes takes place the penultimate week of August. It gathers groups of animations and musicians of any country and any culture to make them meet, play and discuss together…

Sources

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