Charolles

Charolles is a common French, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy. It gave its name to its area, the Charolais.

Its inhabitants is called Charollais.

The town of Charolles

The city is agrémentéé public gardens, the such Bouissoud public garden or the Saint Nicolas's Day walk (with these secular chestnut trees) and is in the middle of the pastures of Charollais, cradle of the bovine race Charollaise and the ovine race Charolaise.

Charolles is a " flowered city 3 fleurs" , it is a " green station of vacances" , a " remarkable site of the goût" and recently a " village étape" animated by its Tourist bureau.

Geography

Charolles is the capital of the Charolais ( or Charollais ), small country of the south-west of the Département of Saône-et-Loire, in the south of the Burgundy. The commune is member of the Communauté of Communes of the Canton of Charolles and the Pays Charolais Brionnais. It is bathed by the Arconce.

Demography

Economic life

The city is the seat of a stud farm national stud farms, of a camp-site, sporting and musical companies, archaeological Grouping of Charolais and the Brotherhood of the knights of Papegault. She has also an office of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Saône-et-Loire.

She counts, like economic activity, a agricultural Cooperative society regional (the AC2B), a traditional artistic faience manufacture (the faillancery Molin), sawmills (the groups Ducerf).

History

Étymologiquement Charolles would come from the Celtic word " Kadrigel" , fortress in the middle of the eau.

time caroligienne: sit of a Viscount dependant on Autun
10th century: fastening in the county of Trawl-net
1166: the count pays homage to the king vassal Louis VII all while recognizing of the duke of Burgundy
1237: the fortress enters the ducal field at the time of the purchase of the county of Chalon by Hugues IV; establishment of a baillif
1277: Charolles becomes the capital and the seat of the particular states (provincial states) of the county of Charolais; the county gathers six châtellenies and is pledged with Béatrice of Burgundy, niece of Robert II of Burgundy
1301: the city receives its charter of Robert de Clermont, husband of Béatrice of Burgundy
1327: by marriage, the city and the county pass to the house of Armagnac in the person of Jean Ier of Armagnac
1391: Bernard VII of Armagnac, grandson of the precedent, having pressing needs for money, sells the county with Philippe II of Burgundy; the city becomes again the chief town of a bailliage
1477: to died of Charles Bold the, the county is attached to the kingdom of France
of 1493 with 1684: restitution with the house of Austria
1684: the Grand Cop is seen allotting the county in payment of the debts contracted by the Habsbourg
1751: fastening with the states of Burgundy
1761: Louis XV buys the county with Miss de Charolais and definitively joins together it with the crown
19th century: the city knows a great prosperity (forging mills, faience manufacture, trade of wines, wood and cattle).

Heraldic

Charolles at the end of the old mode

Charolles was, the day before the revolution, the 14ère city of the large wheel of the States of Burgundy, seat of the royal of Charolles , of the constabulary and prévôté baillage, the attic with salt and the subdelegation of Charolles. It included/understood moreover a collegiate Church (the Church Nizier Saint, theoretically made up of a cleaned primicier, a sexton and ten canons, in fact of three canons), the Priory of the Madeleine, a convent of Picpus, of Clarisses and Visitandines, a College and a General hospital.

Municipality and administration

One finds in Charolles:

Center of the taxes
Police company
Treasury

Some information on Charolles

Monuments and historic sites of Charolles

a paleolithic station is localized in Brèche and Tyrs.
the vestiges of old the castle-extremely of the counts de Charolais, with in particular the circular tower of Charles Bold the of the 14th century, the tower of Diamonds of the 14th century, the strengthened door and the remainders of the walls enclosing, now arranged in public garden, are visible.
In the living rooms of the Town hall an earthenware panel representing the entry of the duke of Burgundy in the city.
the residence of the lords of Magdeleine: frontage 15th century, mullioned windows, medieval inscription. This residence with habriter an old Faience manufacture 19th century.
Sub-prefecture, remains 18th century of Claude Fricaud, deputy of the bailliage of Charolles in 1789.
College, Law courts: old convent of the Visitandines 17th century: gallery with arcades.
Old convent of Clarisses 16th century, where holy Marguerite-Marie Alacoque lived, street Baudinot: frontage with mullioned windows, spiral staircase, covered way; frame in hull of boat; cloisters, wood gallery of the interior court.
Old convent of the Ursulines, places Markets.
Former priory Benedictine of the Madeleine 15th century: octagonal tower 15th century, frontage with mullioned windows, chapter house; big room of the ground floor; collection of capitals 12th century of the old Vault of the priory.
Sundial 19th century towards the old convent of the Visitandines.
Bridge 19th century on Arconce: traces of two turns of access.
restored Mill.
Old strong house of Corcelles 14th century/17th century, altered 18th century: 2 square towers and gate of entry.
Old farms strengthened in the surroundings.
néo-Romance Church of the Sacred Heart 19th century.
Vault Saint-Roch 1600.
Vault of Large Good-God 18th century, old staircase of access of 38 steps.
many beautiful old houses, bridges and footbridges are still to discover.

Museums and exposures

Museum of the Priory, in the old priory Holy-Madeleine Benedictine, which presents:

an exceptional earthenware collection of charolles (of 1844 to our days)
the chapter house of the old priory (15th century);
works of Jean Laronze, painter charolais;
works of the sculptor charollais Rene Davoine;
Every summer, an temporary exhibition of ceramics design or contemporary;

Temporary exhibitions with the old convent of Clarisses.
Institut charolais: discovered breeding charolais.

Escapades

Walks are possible along the channels, in the National forest of Charolles, with the wood of Boulay, in the Valley of Arconce or with its confluence with the Seed, but also with the Site of the Shooting to the Bird: a clearing at the entry of the forest of Charolles.

Local life

the fairs and markets with open Charolles

the market takes place Wednesday morning, downtown.
a market sheep every Wednesday mornings with the Exhibition site (RN 79)
the market to the bovines takes place 2nd Wednesday of each month (transactions with 9:00) from January to May with the Exhibition site.
Important fair at the reproducers 4th Thursday of October and Wednesday which precedes, and Wednesday which follows the week of November 11th (transactions to 5:00.).

reproductive Contests in theory, Friday and Saturday of the week of November 11th - 800 bovines.

Festival of ox: bovine contests butchery (600 bovines) and animations, the 1st weekend of December.

The employers' festival of the holy Madeleine is on July 22nd. The Festival of the Shooting to the Bird, old origin, with place Monday after the holy Madeleine, in July. The musical Summer, festival of chamber music takes place in July. Biennial of international folklore is organized 1st Sunday of August, the odd years. The national Horse show with in July place.

Activities of leisure

One can practice in Charolles the following activities: fish, drives out, bicycle touring, horsemanship, hiking.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean-François Bayard: dramatic author
Marc Antoine Baudot

See too

Internal bonds

Common of Saône-et-Loire
Charolais
Country Charolais Brionnais

External bonds

Space young people of Charolles
Recreational center of Dovecote in Brionnais
the Community of Communes of the Canton of Charolles
Tourist office of Charolles
Site of the Fair Regional Exposure of Charolais
Site of the folk group of Charolles
Site of the house of Charolais
Charolles Information

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