Chalmazel

Chalmazel is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

The village is located at 800 meters of altitude, and extends on the slopes from the mounts from the Forez.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Château of Chalmazel rises in the middle of the village. It goes back to 1231, and belonged to the field of Drill. It can be seen like a large strong house.

See also: Chalmazel (Station)

  • the Ski station is built near the village of Chalmazel. It was open in 1965. Its geographical location, at the same time near to large the Agglomeration S of the area and with an altitude ensuring a good snowing up to him, brought to the station an unquestionable success. It attracts customers come primarily from the Rhone-Alps and Auvergne. It rises until the top Pierre-on-high, with 1640 meters of altitude.

Personalities related to the commune

  • a martyr of the Revolution: the abbot Jean-Marie Mollin (1765 - 1793)
Jean-Marie Mollin (C-W communication Molin, Mollen or Mill according to the acts) was born the September 4th 1765, at the village of the Cross-country race, parish of Chalmazel, baptized by Mr. Coing, priest. He is the son of Jean Mollin and Jeanne-Marie Doitrand, married in 1748. He is the 6th child of a family of eight. His/her older brother, Claude, were cleaned of Sauvain. In 1788, Jean-Marie enters to the Great seminar of Lyon, ordered priest on December 18th, 1790. Vicar with Feurs, it refuses to lend oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and must flee to hide, in Montbrison and in other parishes; he carries out a wandering life, seeking refuge in friendly priests, celebrating the mass in the barns. He contracts a serious fever during the winter 1792/93 which will not leave it any more.
the advertisement of the arrival of Claude Javogues in Montbrison at the beginning of September 93 obliges it, with two other companions, the Daval deacon and the Carton abbot, to seek a surer refuge; they take the Pierre-on-High direction of , with foot. In Chalmazel, one named Jarrier had set up a band of “patriots” to track “the priests and the muscadins” hidden in the mountains. The three fugitive ones hide in the cattle shed of Coleigne September 11th and 12th 1793, then they gain the cabin of Couardes, pertaining to Mr. Recorbet, on September 13rd. Patients, tired, it is there that they are captured by surprise, and although they are harassed and deprived of sleep, Jarrier and its assistants take them along the day-even to Sauvain. In vain Claude Verdier and Durand Jourde (of Saint-Just-in-Low) they had courageously tried to take their defense.
Then they are brought to Montbrison with the prison of the Martyrdom, the dungeon completes to deteriorate their health. They are transferred then to the prison Sainte Marie, old convent of the Visitandines. The Mollin abbot exerts his ministry near the other prisoners, bringing the comfort and the helps of the religion to them, without measuring his sorrow. Lastly, it is the transfer in the prisons of Feurs. The guillotine is drawn up on November 22nd. The popular commission of justice of Feurs made up of Auvergnats was named by Couthon. The public prosecutor was J.B. Dubien, of Marat. The interrogation of the Mollin abbot and his companions began on November 27th; December 3rd, 1793 the death sentence was pronounced, and the abbots Carton, Mollin and Bruyère went up to the scaffold to have been refractory with the oath, and as catholic priests. It is thanks to two fellows-prisoner having escaped with the guillotine, Mr. Aubry, teacher of Leigneux, and the Daval deacon, that the details of this period are known for us.

  • Francoise Viallon Comedienne was born the May 21st 1956, á Chalmazel, married with the singer-author-type-setter of American rock'n'roll Elliott Murphy since 1992.

See too

  • Common of the Loire
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