Chammes

Chammes is a common French, located in the department of the Mayenne and the area Pays of the Loire.

Etymology

Calisamen …;
Ecclesia sancti $petri de Chama , 1125;
Chame , 1312;
Ecclesia de Chame , 15th century;
Ecclesia Sancti $petri de Chama , 1565;
Chame , 1715;
Chames ;
Andre Rene Paige written Chamas ;
Chammes .

Geology

In the North-West, felsitic breaches Cambrien born resting on the sandstone wood of Montis , which form a west-east directed band passing to Holy-Suzanne. These brêches succeed, in move towards the south, of the ic sandstones Feldspath, then ferruginous sandstones in plates (sandstone of Blandouet); the latter cross the borough of Chammes, close which they level. They were exploited for constructions, to which they gave a particular aspect because of their color brown-red.
More in the south, one finds, surmounting various bases Cambrien born, the Armorican sandstone of the moors Thébert , then the Schiste S Ordovicien S of the Coulées . Finally reappear, formant scales on these various grounds, a new band of ferruginous sandstone of Blandouet occupying both the wood and the moors of Moncor; the last of these bases forms picturesque rocks on two banks of the Erve, in the south of old the forging mill.
In the north of Chammes, the side of the Heathers and the Aprillés , like on left bank of the Erve, until the moors and with the Pierre-with-the ass , thick Quaternary deposit hiding the basement completely.
the Forging mills of Moncor, now closed down, were fed by the ores of Blandouet and Transfer-in-Champagne.

Geography

the territory of Chammes corresponds to a depression, where the valley of the Erve is crossed by that of the brook of the Poulou , known as in the past of Mouillebraye , which with its various affluents, collects water of all the area which extends from the Holy-Suzanne Vault-Rainsouin in the north of .
the borough, which forms two groups, one close to the church, the other on the road of Évron, is located in the angle formed by the confluence of the two rivers, on a level of 80 Mr. surrounding altitudes are of 136 Mr. in south-west, 126 Mr. in the south, 113 Mr. in south-east and 107 Mr. in north.
an old way, used by the road of Évron, passed to the Pont of Orval and moved to the south towards Saulges and Sablé. It is distinct from the Holy-Suzanne road of with Chammes, that Jaillot continues then towards Saulges and who, at the time where Cassini drew its chart, passed the Erve to move on Sablé by left bank.
the more recent roads connect the borough towards Blandouet (to 5.5 km in south-east), Saint-Jean-on-Erve (5 km in the south), Vaiges (8 km in south-west), Saint-Leger (7 km in the west), Châtres-the-Forest (8 km in north), Évron (9 km in north) and Holy-Suzanne (3 km in the North-East).
the surface, registered in 1842, is of 2106 ha. “ the funds is extremely thin and produces only rye , writes one with Miroménil in 1696; there is quantity of moors and wood coppice; 18 smallholdings and 35 borderings ”. The situation had improved at the next century, because, according to André Rene Paige, the ground produced wheat and oats; there were meadows, two large pieces of wood and much moors.
Like old industries, in addition to many mills on the Erve, one must announce old the Forges of Moncor which a vast pond formed by Erve at its exit of the communal territory actuated.

History

the church of Chammes was not included/understood in the act of restoration of the abbey of Évron, but Hildebert mentions it with its term in the confirmation of the possessions of the abbey in 1125.
“ the army angloise ” balanced by the French Protestants was in Chammes the May 15th 1593.
Epidemics in 1784 - 1786. Storms November 12th and 19th 1810, which damage the presbytery, located at the edge of the Erve, " in good état" in 1802 (according to Pierre-François Davelu).
'the seigniory of Chammes was vassal of Holy-Suzanne . After having belonged to the Feschal ( Rene de Feschal , 15th century; the lady of Poligné , 1469), it passed to the lords of the Vault-Rainsouin . In 1562, Nicolas de Champagne engaged it with the seigniory known as of Vaiges, the smallholdings of Hommois , Bonnefontaine , Messuardière , with lord Olivier Ferré and Julienne, his wife, sior and lady of La Motte . Rene Labitte, judge ordinary with the duchy of Mayenne, had it of the chief of Renee Ferré , his wife. She passed, by acquisition undoubtedly, with the the Soft , lords of the Bread store , and remained to them until the Révolution. They even often left their patronymic name to take that of Chammes : Louise-Francoise-Gabrielle the Soft one of Chammes , lady of Ruigné (Holy-Dove), was made represent at the assembly of the nobility of Anjou in 1789.
Chammes constituted a hearth of resistance to the revolutionary ideas by a demonstration of the peasants against the district, as of the April 2nd 1792.
the January 25th 1871, the Prussian hussards which occupied Blandouet, went on Chammes, where they were confined until the armistice. The 26, they met on the road of Saint-Leger a party of franc-tireurs, but they were brought back until Chammes by the Hunters of Africa which made them 2 prisoners. The 29 at the evening, some franc-tireurs were let take close to the borough. the commune paid a contribution of 1000 frs.
During the second world war, Chammes is occupied by the German troops as of the June 17th 1940. It will be released by the American army the August 7th 1944 after a combat which made 20 dead (12 Germans and 8 Americans).

Administration

Twinning

, to see. The twinning of the canton of Holy-Suzanne/the Community of Communes of Erve and Charnie, with Sulzheim (the Rhineland-Palatinat) was initiated in 1966 by Victor Julien general adviser, mayor of Thorigné-in-Charnie, and Adam Becker , in the family of which Victor Julien had been prisoner of war of 1940 with 1945.

Demography

Average of the births: 22 of 1640 with 1650; 33 of 1710 with 1720; 147 fires in 1696; 629 h. in 1726, 700 to 800 communicants in 1777.

Places and monuments

Church dedicated to Saint Pierre, modernized in 1879.
the Forging mills of Moncor.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Country of Art and History Coëvrons-Mayenne

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