Chauny

Chauny is a town of Picardy, department of the Aisne. It belongs to the 36.000 Communes Frenchwomen. Its inhabitants are Chaunois and Chaunoises. Chauny is twinned with Andenne (Belgium) and Bergheim (Germany).

Geography

Built on the edges of the Oise and the Channel of Saint-Quentin, the city preserves its port still today. Chauny is at equal distance from Soissons (34 km), Laon (36 km) and Saint-Quentin (30 km) and it is in the middle of Picardy.

Chauny is connected perfectly to the remainder of the territory by road: proximity of the highways A26 and A29 which pass by Saint-Quentin; but also by sea route thanks to the channel of Saint-Quentin; by TGV, the line Paris - Brussels thus towards the remainder of France. The national airports of Paris are at one hour of road. Chauny has a station located on the line Paris St Quentin Maubeuge, served very well by Corail trains and FOR THE THIRD TIME towards Paris Compiegne and Saint Quentin. This station was rebuilt post-war period according to the plans of Urbain Cassan.

Administration

• Charles Gervais Valentine Delacroix (May 31st, 1807 with Chauny - idem on March 8th, 1890), doctor. Wire of a teacher of this city, it benefitted from one of the purses created by the Bouzier abbot and was made receive doctor of medicine. In 1832, the register of the deliberations of the municipal council of Chauny mentions letter addressed for the council to Mr. Delacroix, raises in medicine in Paris, thanking it for having stopped its studies to come at the time it Choléra to give to its fellow-citizens the contest of his Article Delacroix exerted medicine only a few years and since all its time devoted to the public affairs. City council man during about thirty years, it formed part in 1870 of the municipal commission, was named mayor on May 28th, 1871 and gave his resignation in 1874.

• Aimé Saint Cyprien Desforges de Vassens (January 11th 1787 - August 6th 1875, Chauny) is a former soldier of the Large army, which attended the battles of Austerlitz, Wagram and took as lieutenant a glorious share with the blockade of Fère. Captain in retirement, knight of the Legion of honor, former mayor of Chauny, former administrator of the Welfare office and the old people's homes of the town of Chauny.

Demography

History of the city

The history of Chauny goes back to the 12th century. Small chronology:

Before the Revolution

• 1167

The 8 of the Calends of January, Philippe of Alsace, Count de Flandres and of the Vermandois, grant the first charter to the commune of Chauny.

• 1213

The precarious and fragile freedom, whose chaunois are already so proud, is consolidated by the passage of the city under the direct authority of King Philippe Auguste. It is in this charter that for the first time the name of “Town of Chauny appears”. Until this date, in the various writings, Chauny was qualified only name of “Castle”.

• 1214

To thank Philippe-Auguste, the archers chaunois will be distinguished in his army, the following year at the time of famous “the Battle of Bouvines”.

• 1417

The place is taken by the party Bourguignon and, in 1557, the destruction marks the Spanish occupation (destruction of the churches Saint Martin's day and Notre-Dame).

• 1430

In 1430, year when Jeanne d' Arc is made captive with Compiegne, this city is in the baillage of Chauny. Full with hatred for the foreigner, the inhabitants of Chauny bind by oath to seize castle and to demolish it so that one does not put at it an English garrison in the event of invasion. Chauny, located in the valley Oise, is on the road of the invasions. It undergoes many foreign occupations, because of the presence of the many mills installed on the river.

• 1487

Marie de Clèves, mother of the future (1498) king Louis XII, established for several years with Chauny, has died there in August; she resided in what was known under the name of Maison of Orleans, close to the current place of the Town hall (then place of the Market) from where share a short way known under the name of " street of Clèves" who points out his memory. This princess who resided at Chauny belonged to the houses of Clèves and Burgundy by her birth, with that of Orleans by her marriage with Charles of Orleans. She shared with this last the taste of the poetic writing.

• 1591

In 1591, the city faithful to Henri IV takes part in the defeat of the troop of the League and the King will always have a great recognition and a great friendship for Chaunois to which, it will grant important rights.

• 1662

During a new Spanish invasion of 1662, Chaunois resist 4 days and go only honourable conditions. It is told on this subject that the sior Sanier, native of Chauny and priest of Saint Martin's day, carried itself the gun.

• 1700

In 1700, Oise east naviguable towards Paris and shortly after the beginning of this century, the Company of Saint-Gobain installs a deposit of ices on the river bank.

After the Revolution

• 1789

As everywhere in France it is the revolution. It is in Chauny that is made the election of the capital of our department of Aisne. It is also the year when the churches Notre-Dame and Saint Martin's day are destroyed. There will remain only ruins about it. The latter is tranformée, on April 15th, 1794, in stables for the horses, and Notre-Dame is changed into salpetre workshop. The end of the Empire still marks Chauny.

• 1814

February 26th, 1814, the Russian detachments of the Winzingerade General penetrate in Chauny by the suburb of Soissons in direction of the street of the Roadway, in spite of a resistance armed with the workmen of the Workshops of the Ices.

• 1870

The war of 1870/71 was more a passage of the Prussian troops that a place of battle for the town of Chauny. It will not be the same for the Second world war.

• 1914

Chauny is occupied by the armies of the Général Von Kluckdès on September 2nd all the remained men with Chauny are embarked towards Germany.

• 1917

In February 1917, at the time of the German return to the line Hindenburg, the city is entirely destroyed with dynamite, except the district of Brouage.

• 1920-1930

The city will be rebuilt in 1920 and 1930 and will undergo a new occupation, by the armies of Hitler, starting from June 6th, 1944 which will see the delivery of the city by the American troops of the 1st army of the Hodges General.

The city today

Chauny, whose inhabitants are called the “monkeys”, in remembering Rabelais, account today 3 colleges: the college of vocational training Jean Macé, the college Gay-Lussac and private Institution Saint-Charles and 3 colleges: the college Victor Hugo, the college Jacques Cartier and Instituion private Saint-Charles. Certain factories are also very known: Nexans, in the past Thomson, Rohm and Haas, Monopanel, Sica and Arkema which, during 150 years, was called the Soda one.

The city is served by an important highway network and the railroad passes since 1849 there. The channel of Saint-Quentin which completed the junction of the Sum in Oise in 1738, sees passing from many barges.

A Forum, very modern, allows many cultural events with, in the vicinity, of the places of relaxation with the beautiful forests of Saint-Gobain and Coucy Basse.

In 1995, a new modern and well arranged swimming pool was open: a large basin of 25 m, a Toboggan of 40 cm and a circuit of swimming of more than 60 Mr.

Two important fairs in March and at the end of August are held on the Bouzier place with the center town, an accessible place, vestiges of the old fortifications, and with the locality “the walks”.

Unfortunately for the chaunois, the city has known an unemployment rate high (13.6%) and faced for several years with acts of delinquencies: flight of all natures (in particular of copper because of the presence of the Company of Copper Continuous casting (SCCC)), aggressions and brawls, vehicle fires, etc the Encyclopedia of the towns of France notes the security level of the town of Chauny with 0.4/5.

In chapter XXIV of “Gargantua”, a paragraph is devoted to Chauny. It is made there state of the activity of Gargantua and his timetable when the air was rainy…

Thus one can raise: " Was going to see the jugglers, trajectaires (jugglers), thiéracleurs (charlatans) and considered their gestures, their tricks, their sudden starts (capers) and beautiful speech, singularly those of Chauny in Picardy, because they are of nature large gossips and beautiful financial backers of balivernes as regards green monkeys (animal chimerical) ".

Thus the monkeys remained the emblem of the City and that one finds them on various blazons. With the passing of years, this emblem evolved/moved since from now on they are three: one which does not see anything, the other which does not say anything and the third which does not understand anything. The City thus preserved name “Chauny-the-Monkeys”.

Personalities related to the commune

• Simone Michel-Levy (1906-1945), one of the 6 women Companion of the Release, began its career in the P.T.T with Chauny.
• Pierre Alexis Francis Bobœuf, chemist
• Henri-Jean Calsat, architect born in the city
• Jules Moreau , scholar, printer and antique dealer, born with Chauny the May 12th 1834, dead on July 1st 1883.
• Charles-Adrien Lesot of Penneterie , known as Lacressonnière , is an actor and French playwright born with Chauny (Aisne) on December 12th, 1819, deceased with Boulogne-sur-Mer, on June 9th, 1893. It is credited with at least the first 27 roles in parts played by the various Parisian theaters of the Boulevard of 1847 to 1892. It was in particular distributed in Alexandre Dumas (Charles IX in the Queen Margot , Bussy in the Lady of Montsoreau , role titrates in the Red Knight of House ), Paul Féval (prince de Gonzague in Uneven the ), François Coppée (Louis XIV in Mrs. de Maintenon ), and Zola (count Muffat in Nana ). It was a high-speed motorboat of the scene of its time.

Legends of Chauny

Three monkeys

Legend 1: The municipality of wanting Chauny, says one, to populate swans water which surrounds this small town, made of it the request at the town of Paris. That which was charged to write, either by distraction, or by ignorance, put “cynges” instead of “cyngnes”. However, as one ortographiait formerly the word monkey with “C” and “there” (cynge), the Parisian ones envoyérent in Chauny a collection of sapajous. From there would have been born the saying from the monkeys of Chauny. “So not E vero, bucket trovato”.

Legend 2: It is much more probable than this nickname comes from than the arquebusiers of Chauny carried the figure of a monkey on their banner.

Legend 3: Mr. Boileau de Maulaville thinks that this nickname comes from the marked taste that the inhabitants of Chauny had, to the Middle Ages, for the public plays, jugglings and the antics.

The cowherd

The popular tradition tells marvellous facts on this character. It was, says one, a species of giant who, during 70 years, was cowherd. He kept the cows with horse and offered to drink of excellent wine, in his money horn, to those which came to visit it. It is probable that “Everyone” was nickname hereditary of family of cowherds of Chauny, and that this odd name continued to be applied to those which carried out to feed the cattle, in the marshes of the commune.

It is told that a cowherd of Chauny would have answered Henri IV which required its name of him: I am called “Everyone”. But one also speaks about the Cowherd of Chauny, Jean Everyone in the “Play of the Good Time” by Estrées, born with Amiens in 1472. It is known as that good time is not any more, not even at Jean Everyone, Vacher of Chauny.

Turn of city

Chauny is located in the middle of a great very appreciated tourist area: Forest S of Saint-Gobain and Coucy-Low, circuits arrow, walks, old churches and old stones are the witnesses of a very rich historical past. The city has also certain very pleasant and attended sites.

The town of Chauny counts also many monuments. Although destroyed several times, whose last after the Great War of 1914-1918, it was rebuilt or almost in the years 1920 and counts important monuments and masonries of a particular style, like the Town hall, SNCF railway station., the market hall, the market with fish. The churches Saint Martin's day and Notre-Dame were respectively devoted on January 30th, 1927 and on March 2nd, 1930. Important houses of Masters still testify to the post-war period.

While raising the head also, randomly of the walks, one can discover with the pediments of certain houses, the frescos, the sculptures or drawings point out the last rich person of Chauny.

The park “the walks”, built on the ruins of the ramparts of the old city, comprises a course of health established for the greatest pleasure of the sportsmen and the people wishing to preserve their physical shape. The park reception also Jeu de Paume and a Play of Arc, among most famous in Picardy. One also finds memories and testimonys there on the Picardy plays and the archery of the area and the city.

The locks are also centres of attraction of the area. Even if the traffic were a little reduced these last years taking into account the economic recession, the side channel in Oise, the channel of Aisne in Oise, the channel of Saint-Quentin are always very attended inland waterways. If commercial navigation knows a certain fall, it continues despite everything to ensure the transport of cereals and the fine gravels left the ballast-pits close in direction to the large building sites; contrary one notes a great progression of the pleasure sailing which borrows these routes for the summer period. The foreign yachtmen (Dutch, Belgian, German) are numerous to cross the area to join the capital, the coasts of the ocean and the Midi. Since centuries, the boats, the barges use this water way which constitutes in fact a local inheritance.

History of the streets of Chauny

Arc (Street of)

The old street of the Arc does not exist any more; in the past it led street of the Belfry to the ramparts which defended the city in the east; on a side it skirted the walls of the Hospital and led to the point where one saw the Garden of the Archers (site of the building carrying N° 10 of the Gambetta boulevard, in 1914), of ou' the name of the Arc. There exists still a street of the Arc leading of the old street of the Arquebus to the street Jean Cachet.

The Company of the Archers of Chauny formerly carried like emblem a monkey. Its creation undoubtedly goes back to the time of Charles V.

“Let us want and order, says it in an ordinance of 1369, that our subjects take their plays and esbatements to be exerted and entitle in fact of feature of arc or arbalestres are biaux places and suitable places with this, be cities and terrouoirs and facent their gifts (a price) with the mieulx traians (gunner) and their festes and joys for it. ”

The Company of Chauny had acquired in the region a certain reputation -- it took share with the battle of Bouvines -- ; it owed it with the address of its captain and that of his knights who, capped with a hat with feathers, in multicoloured velvet costume, the arc with the fist and the case at the side carried by money staples representing Saint-Sebastien, appeared with honor in the prices generally returned in the province.

A receipt of September 14th, 1386 teaches us that the archers were vêtus of small and short a cloth surcot semi-part blue on a side and red of the other and of a hood semi-part of the same colors. August 9th, 1717, with the ceremonies of the Parade of the provincial Bouquet of Meaux, the Company of Chauny was represented by twelve knights equipped cinnamon color, with buttons of money and carrying a horn of cowherd.

But its memory would perhaps not have survived, and its so uncontested triumphs would perhaps not have saved its name of the lapse of memory, if its banner of the great days had not carried an eccentric emblem exposed to the gibe and the disrespectful gibes of crowd. Indeed the sign of the Company represented a monkey, and the public malignity had wanted to see in this image the personification of the genius of the inhabitants of the city. Some share that they appeared the archers of Chauny intended to greet nickname of monkeys of Chauny, nickname which Chaunois still preserved.

The Company of the Archers of Chauny had preserved in its uses another tradition. It was made precede by a character intended to represent All-the-World, this legendary cowherd, whose name gave rise to good number of fables and on the account of which nothing of some ultimately is known.

There still exists in Chauny a Company which is delivered to the noble play of the arc.

Arquebus (street of)

It led door of Bridge-Royal to the street Vieille of Brouage where the door of Hangest rose. It was opened at the beginning XIXe century on the site of the old ramparts. The first houses which were built, went back at most to 1825. It owed its name with the rampart of the Arquebus which owed itself this denomination with the proximity of the play or Garden of the Arquebus. Since 1928 it bears the name of Aristide Briand.

The Company of Arquebusiers de Chauny, made up at the beginning of XVlIe century, “made up of quantity of decent people of the city”, had its Garden or Play in the north of the city on the rampart and the ditches of Holy-Cross. This Garden was transported at the end of 1653 in the low part of the ditches on a vast ground ranging between the old river of Butcheries, the street of the Arquebus (R. Aristide-Briand) and the old door of Hangest.

In 1670 one offered wine to Arquebusiers de Chauny which had brought the general bouquet of the Arquebus of Montdidier.

Arquebusiers de Chauny wore a blue dress of king to money buttons, a large hat; their flag, like that of the archers, carried the image of a monkey. This company was distinguished in defense from the in July 1652 city, then besieged by the Spaniards.

A general price given by the Company of Arquebusiers de Chauny to its rivals of Ham, Laon, Boundary-line, Saint-Quentin and Compiegne, was drawn during eight days, in 1680. It had been authorized by signed letters patent of Louis XIV with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer on April 15th, 1680. It was Jean of the Passage, lord of Sinceny, governor and baillif de Chauny, who drew the blow from the king, surrounded by all that the city had officers and magistrates.

The Company was removed in 1735.

Bailly (street of)

This street is the prolongation of that of Notre-Dame; it began old bridge of Bailly and finished with the level crossing of this name. In 1928, it received the name of Jean of the Fountain.

Inhabited from any seniority, the suburb of this name extends to the west from the city until Ognes and was divided formerly into large and small Bailly. It was made of marshy grounds which were transformed into meadows in consequence of successive dryings.

The etymology of the word Bailly is dubious; the ones say that it can preserve us the memory of the castellum Calniacum known at Xe century; others ensure that the word Bali (one wrote Bali in 1402), drawn from the Celtic idiom, means alley of jet shafts high leading to a dwelling. One can still add that old jurisdiction of the baillifs remained the beautiful word or bucket, employed to indicate certain parts of the castle-forts still today where the baillif had his court.

Before the restoring price level of Oise it is of this suburb that water notches it left to Paris and returned from there, once per week during the beautiful season.

At the XVIIIe century one still saw in Bailly a private hospital known as blue Maison, close to the street of the Communes, not far from the port. Previously one locked up there the pestiferous ones or people reached of contagious diseases; a way, called voiery of the maladrery, led to it.

Barrier (street of)

It was formerly a path which ended in right-hand side line in the old cemetery of the first Saint Martin's day church, close to a strengthened work called barrier from where the name applied to this way. It is currently a small street leading of the street Vieille of Brouage to the place of Brouage.

Low court of the Castle (street of); opened on the site of the low court or bucket of the castle-extremely demolished in 1431, this street led place of the Market to the door of Pissot. It occupied the site of the northern edge of the old section of the street of Fère, ranging between the place of and Town hall Gambetta the boulevard, where currently the Police station is. About the police force let us mention that, in an assembly of notable of January 9th, 1766, it is decided to make an expenditure of 400 pounds for the clothing of the two policemen (blue cloth clothes with red facings money non-commissioned officers, jackets and breeches red and shoulder-belts with the weapons of the city).

It was at the time where Chauny left the limits of the island where its first enclosure rose, which another castle was built, at the beginning of XIIe century, we believe. Placed at the north-western angle of the enclosure, it extended, including most of the place of the Market (of the Town hall), to the ramparts of Pissot and of Holy-Cross (current walks).

In 1431, the inhabitants being moved by carried out by the governor, whose complicity with the English was known, and wishing to avoid, at least temporarily, the dangers of the enemy occupation, felt to awake their energy. Being concerted secretly, they solved to seize the castle and to demolish it. Monstrelet told this company despaired in its Chronicles (chap. C XVI). In 1435, the town hall obtained from Charles VII of the letters of thanks to the subject of the destruction of this castle.

It is the most curious episode and more moving by the history of Chauny.

Beffroy (street of)

Draw its name from the belfry which was built there about the middle of XIIIe century and whose ruins were shaven in 1870; it formerly led street of Blocq (street of the Republic) until the place of Beffroy. In 1917, it finished in dead end. Currently it emerges street of the Post office.

The belfry, built about the middle of XIIIe century, was a heavy construction out of sandstone, square, massive, of restricted size. The interior contained a stage with an apartment where, during several centuries, the mayor, sworn and the aldermen had met to deliberate on the businesses on the commune. In last times the room of the belfry was used as store and the ground floor was with use of cellar.

Ruined in 1557, one was about to make it disappear in 1710, to increase the rooms of the Hospital in the dependences of which it was wedged. But as it was used at that time as arsenal and that it belonged to the field of the king, one renonça with its destruction.

As we said above, it was cut down in 1870, and it to occupy of the unemployed.

One gave the name of place of Beffroy to a small space which extended between noelles Butcheries (street of the Post office), the Hospital and the belfry. By municipal deliberation of October 25th, 1624, it was decided that for the sale of cods, herrings, etc, one would build wood shops, “joingnant the house of the Hospital, close to the noelles ones”, that of fish of sea and of fresh water will also be done on the same place, near the known as noelles ones, which will be called “the fish market”.

We have just quoted the street of the Post office; on this subject let us announce that to the dated April 8th, 1643 permission was given to the town of establish a post office.

Good children (street of)

Small lane which formerly led place of the Good children (in the street of Hangest) to the ramparts of the Arquebus. It exists still and led street Aristide-Briand to the street of Hangest. The name of this street, very narrow and very old, points out the site or the vicinity of one of the first schools where one got free the elements of the instruction to the poor schoolboys “with the Good-Enfans escholiers”.

When terrors of the year millet were dissipated, one founded in the majority of the cities of the houses for the students without fortune. These houses were called hospital of the poor clerks, Capettes, Good children.

They are called the Good children, by allusion undoubtedly to their good behavior and their edifying behavior. It is the name which one gave to Chauny with the students without fortune.

It is on the tiny place of the Good children that, the third day of Rogations, the clergy of the two parishes of Chauny had formerly as a habit to meet to make a general procession with the church Saint-Georges d' Ognes. This procession ceased since strong a long time, but the old men of Ognes still remember that in their youth, a procession went the day of Rogations to an end of the village, the following day Tuesday with the other end, and the third day with the Tree of the Mill-Chevreux, historical tree of which disappearance should be regretted. Naive and rustic festivals these festivals of Rogations, avoided pastoral graces the procession; as soon as the raised sun, traversed all the roads of the parish, grassiest like most deserted, the paths like the sunken lanes. This procession was really the festival of spring.

To the entry of the street of the Good children, on the left, side of the street of Hangest, a dwelling, to XVIe and XVIIe centuries, belonged to the Pestel family, of which one of the members, Pierre, canon of Soissons, was a professor emeritus of rhetoric and eloquence to the Cardinal-Lemoine college, in Paris, died in 1721. It left the many Latin poetries written with elegance.

The anthem of the first vespers and that of laudes of the old office of Vaneng saint to the use of Ham, which is not deprived of a certain literary merit, are of Pierre Pestel, which made print in Paris, in Jacques Quillau, on a simple layer, three anthems by him made up in the honor of Vaneng saint; the manuscript, small in-4° end of the XVIIe century with notation in lime pit song was in Ham at last century between the hands of the priest.

It is believed that the prose of the grand' mass is also of Pierre Pestel; it is a beautiful liturgical song, very tasted by the amateurs of our old religious poetries.

If it did not acquire the celebrity whom the P. Labbé seemed to predict to him, Pierre Pestel is not less one Latin poet of an undeniable merit, and it would be enough to the anthems in the honor of Vaneng saint to place it among Of the Brain, Commire, the Whetstone sheath and other writers, its contemporaries, who excelled in Latin poetry.

Butcheries (street of the Old women)

An act of the year 1750 fact mention of this street which was in the suburb of the Roadway; it drew its name from butcheries which were established there.

There existed also several vices with stopping established on the bridge of Butcheries, with the outlet of the street of the current Post office on the street of the Republic. One sold each day of the “flesh to with it that as well sharp as killed”; they were subjected to the visit of four “esgars”; June 22nd, 1517 one named 4 égars butchery, 2 égars of white animals sharp and a sergeant of butchery. March 31st, 1518 the butchers of the city met in the Room; one made them reading of the ordinances on the fact of butchery, and they lent oath like their servants, between the hands of the mayor and of sworn. May 25th, 1781 he was recognized, after a visit, that old butcheries were to be rebuilt.

The butchers of Chauny trained in each parish a brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament; they had the privilege, obtained by royal charters and letters, to carry the platform to the processions of the Corpus Christi, crowned flowers.

By municipal deliberation of November 5th, 1627, it was decided that: until the number of the butchers is tiny room to sixteen, one will not receive any more from now on.

February 14th, 1642 one named two bouchères to only sell meat in times of Lent to the patients and not with others, under penalty of fine.

Bouzier (place)

This place, vastest of Chauny, by considering it in its greater extent, affects the shape of a square; it is limited to north by the old street Bouzier, forming now part of the place Saint Momble; this part is called by Chaunois, places Verte. The Bouzier place, itself, form a vast quadrilateral enters the Verte place and the street of Paris.

The whole place occupies the site of the old ditches, of the two bastions of the King or Tiny and Martin Saint, and part of that of Genlis in top of the street of Freedom.

It bears the name of a benefactor of the city, the abbot Antoine Bouzier, priest, abbot of Notre-Dame of Ardres, doctor be-sciences, doctor in Sorbonne, canon and écolâtre of collegial of Saint-Quentin. He was the son of Antoine Bouzier, lord of Estouilly, mayor of Chauny, and Claude of Fons. His/her grandfather was Antoine Bouzier, lord of Dy and Estouilly who, having married Antoinette Vrevin, came from Ham, from where he was originating, to be established in Chauny at the beginning of XVIe century.

The Bouzier abbot made gift at the city, by contract of October 10th, 1713, signed with Chauny by front hereditary royal notaries, of the income necessary to equip with two purses, two children, of humble and modest condition, and to make those able to serve the church in the ecclesiastical state, or the public in the civil functions.

The first two purses were given by the founder to Charles de Hangest and Jean-François the Right. The last of the stock-brokers, indicated by the municipal council of our city before the Great War, was Marcel Lelong, auxiliary doctor with the 169e of infantry, captive fact on February 29th, 1916 in front of Verdun.

The Bouzier place itself preserved its denomination.

Brewery (street of)

Of street Pasteur to street Raboeuf. It is the modern denomination of an old way which put in communication Pissot and Senicourt where 'it led to a river.

Since 1928 it is called street of Eure-et-Loir.

A few years after the war one found in this street a lead plate pointing out the foundation of a house in 1799 per “Pierre Momble de Marquette, wire, and Agathe Josephe Marguerite de Brion, his wife, owner of Beaumont-in-Beine”.

Agathe-Josephe-Marguerite was the only daughter of the count Joseph de Brion, and of Marguerite-Francoise-Charlotte, rams of Beaumont in 1785, girl of Claude of Charles de Bucy, lord of Villers-Saint-Christophe in 1740; in 1794 she married Pierre Momble de Marquette of Crimon de Beaumont, knight of the Lily, born in 1764; they lived of 1806 to 1840 the old castle of Beaumont, destroyed during the war.

The family of Brion very popular and was extremely loved with Beaumont-in-Beine; she founded several establishments of instruction. The name of this street comes to him from a brewery which was established there. There was still in Chauny a street of the Brewer who opened on the street of Blocq to lead to the rampart of the Set of balls on the side of the bastion of Arquebusiers. In 1914 one still saw a section of it behind the old law courts, close to the elementary school of the girls from which the rebuilding, in 1899, made disappear this small way, listed in 1395, which finished formerly in dead end. There is not of it more trace.

September 18th, 1517, defense was made to the brewers brew more than for the provisioning of the city, awaited the dearness of the grains.

Brouage (street of the fg. of)

Cmmençait of the place of this name and finished in extreme cases of Ognes. It is partly main road of Chauny with Noyon, become under Louis XIV road of Paris with Chauny, then road of Boundary-line with Fère, currently trunk road N° 38. This way crosses the old Saint Martin's day suburb, which accepted the name of Brouage only since the end of XVIe century, after the disappearance of the first Saint Martin's day church.

This name of Brouage indicated the old mill where the stem of hemp was broken or of the flax to detach from it the oakum of the chènevotte with an instrument called crushes it or husks, which end up indicating the suburb of Brouage where was made these operations.

An interesting discovery which made some noise at the time and would tend to prove that on the site of Chauny residences at the time Roman rose, which is that was done at the XVIIe century in Brouage close to a brickyard near the old road of Boundary-line of several Roman tombs. It is known indeed that according to the use of the Romans those did not admit cemeteries in their cities; the burials were built along the roadways, in the countryside. Thus if the place which became Brouage found then out of a city, one can deduce from it that the dwellings of those were on the highest parts with the top of the marshes, probably at this place from Chauny called the old borough.

In XIVe century in Brouage a part of fortification existed called Tourloupe, belonging to the first enclosure of the city. It included/understood a bridge, missing at the end of XVIe century, a door shot down in 1493 by the permission of the duke of Orleans, and the ditches supplied with Ru Ganton. Bridge, carries and ditches known under the name of Tourloupe, located at the height of the Institution Saint-Charles, defended the town of this side.

Part of the ground where the Institution Saint-Charles is built was bought on March 6th, 1512 by the Cordelières nuns; their convent having been ruined by the Spaniards in 1557, these nuns were established street of the Jews shortly after (see Rue of the Jews).

Antoinette the Healthy ones was one their first the higher, approximately the year 1550; she left the house in l569 destroyed by Calvinistes, returned in 1578 and rebuilds it. Its zeal and its virtue appear in an act that gave of it the mayor and sworn city in 1579, which begins this manner, which will appear singular: “Us, Mayor and Sworn town of Chauny, governor of the Republic of ycelle city, let us certify, etc…”

Buery (street of)

Street of Pissot (with the martyrdom set up in 1877 on the site of another very old) to the brook of Hélot (street Paul-Doumer); it drew its name from the bueries or laundries of fabrics established in its vicinity, which passed, still at the XVIIIe century, among most beautiful of France.

This word buery draws its origin from “bû” word Celtic from where the word mist came.

In 1631 one quotes two bueries, those of Pissot and Senicourt, established by Jean Crommelin (of Saint-Quentin) and his cousins. Then one finds in the Communal records of Chauny, the names of the following launderers: in 1671, Abel Maréchal was Master of the buery of Chauny; Jean Dericq, deceased in August 1676 had been Master of the great buery; in 1683, André “of Derich” was launderer with the small buery; in 1686, Abraham Villebroucq, known as Pain White, born in Haarlem (Holland) was launderer in Pissot.

June 13rd, 1674, defense was made to the workmen and to workers working with the “taweries” of Chauny to leave their employment without having a written leave, and before the time of washing is not accomplished; in the same way, with the Masters of the taweries, to receive the workmen and to give them to work if they do not see the written assent and leave of those where they began the year.

This industry continued for a long time; thus Jacques Couillette of Isle was Master of the buery of Pissot and died on January 19th, 1723; Daniel Couillette, commercial launderer, was deceased in 1730; March 10th, 1740 died Jean Couillette; the buery of Pissot was exploited in 1744 by Couillette d' Hauterive; the other buery was occupied at the same time by Nicolas the Stupid one of the Bread store, which was mayor of Chauny.

Our city then had many weavings of lattice and fabrics.

Before of being able to be exposed on sale, the fabrics, cambrics and lawns were to be carried in an office established for this purpose in Chauny and Ham. There, these goods were to be visited and if those were found in conformity with a decree taken on September 12th, 1729, these parts were to be marked of a print carrying on a side the weapons of the king, and other the date and the name of the city where the seal had been affixed.

It was defended with the launderers to receive any fabric into unbleached to be bleached, without she being visited and was marked and that hardly of 500 pounds fine and confiscation.

From 1753 to 1763, it was brought to the office of mark of Chauny, 72.369 parts of various fabrics.

The trade of wire was considerable in the country chaunois. In 1784, Saint-Quentin bought for approximately a million francs of fabric in wire with Chauny

Since 1928, the street of Buerie became street Edmond-Rigot.

Camp Solent (street of)

a modern street which leads station to the old avenue of Senicourt; it drew its denomination from a locality called originally Saint Camp where, according to the tradition, legendary Vacher of Chauny was buried.

By respect, the animals did not feed any more at once where this cowherd rested. There one drew up, with this famous cowherd, a tomb with this epitaph:

Ichy chous chete lorde falls Gist the cowherd, known as everyone De Chalny chintz of Grand Prix Between mins chintz of the country That it pasche of Kéron the boat As much although it wardit no' is occupied Chisch trespassed of years chent ten nine If large of virtues, like ox Boviers, be occupied, kévals and asses Well wardez to stop heart

Of a prolog of Arnould Rogier, entitled All-The-World the Cowherd Iégendaire de Chauny, recited by Mr. Delahaye on May 23rd, 1868, with the opening of new. theater of Chauny (destroyed in 1917 and not rebuilt), we extract the following passage:

I… do I know it well was (1) 1? In the rich person valley By the extreme suns, the white one frozen, Without another clothing that heavy a sayon of skins Recluse and dreamer, I kept your herds I was a little wizard: of twenty miles to the round One came to consult the Cowherd All-the-World.

Barracks (street -)

started with the street of Bridge-Royal, circumvented the place of the Market hall to lead to the Roadway, behind the Notre-Dame church. It owed its denomination with the barracks built of 1746 to 1755 on the site of the place of the Market hall.

In the past the street of the Barracks was the continuation of the street of the Roadway which circumvented at this place the half-moon established in front of the door of theRoyal one.

Formerly the ceaseless passages of troops ruined the inhabitants of Chauny. Also the city sent it to Paris and Versailles delegation on delegation with mission of requesting the discharge of half of the garrison. Not obtaining satisfaction, it was decided during a municipal deliberation that one would build barracks (1732), but the first stone was not posed that on August 9th, 1746 on a ground occupied formerly partly by the half-moon of the door of theRoyal one.

At the time of the installation of the first stone of the barracks, it was placed between this stone which was with the right foot of the door of the medium, as regards court large, while entering on the right, and the second, a blade of lead on which was engraved what follows:

“Of the reign of Louis XV”

“Charles-Blaise Méliand, knight, lord lord of the manor of Thoisy, the Vault-Vendômoise and other places, adviser of the roy in his Councils, ordinary Maistre of the Requests of sound hostel, Intendant of Justice, Organize and Finances of the General information of Soissons, posed the first stone of this building raised by his orders to place the horses of a brigade of Bodyguards of Roy in ceste town of Chauny, on August 9th, 1746, in the presence of the mayors and sworn of the aforesaid the city”

These barracks were demolished in 1879; the street of this name us had preserved the memory of it.

Since 1928 part of the street of the Barracks forms a unit with the place of the Market hall and the other is called street Juliette-Lambert, writer of great talent, a family who lived in Chauny at the beginning of the XIXe century. His/her mother was born street from Boundary-line (act. street of Paris) opposite a pension directed by Mr. Blangy, and his/her father was professor of philosophy there, then studied medicine.

Juliette was born suddenly in Verberie (Oise), but its grand' mother brought it shortly after to Chauny where it was then put in pension at the institution André sisters. There, it scandalized its mistresses by organizing demonstrations in connection with political events.

The influence of this large Frenchwoman on the policy of our country and the humanities ensured one of the best places to him among the writers of last century.

Juliette Lambert died in 1936 in her hundredth year.

Chastelain (street of)

this street known in XIIIe century under the denomination of street Royaumont, of the name of this abbey which had goods with Chauny, then street of Chastelain, is the former old woman street of the Barracks who led Roadway to the place of Market-Cover east coast. This way led to the chief town of Chatellenie, rather vast ground currently crossed by the street Anatole-France.

This street of Chastelain preserved us the memory of the former lords of the manor of Chauny.

The châtellenie of Chauny had belonged to the counts de Vermandois; it was one of oldest and noblest of the province. The last lord of the manor was Louis-Marie-Guy, duke of Aumont, lord of Guiscard and Chauny.

Louis-Marie-Guy, duke of Aumont, were the back-small son of Louis de Guiscard. He had married in first weddings the duchess of Mazarin. At July 14th, 1789 it ordered as a chief the 6th division of the Parisian national guard of which it gave the command to L, has Fayette; he was then governor of the place of Lille until 1792. This fourth and last marquis de Guiscard died with the castle of this locality on October 20th, 1799, carrying the regard of all the inhabitants. In July 1801 its coffin was deposited in the vault seigneurial of the marquis de Guiscard, built in 1720 pennies the chorus of the church.

Formerly the market with the flax was held with the angle of the street of Chastelain and the Roadway.

Roadway (street of)

formed of the ancient way which came from Soissons by Coucy, this street is oldest and for a long time was the single street of Chauny it crosses the suburb of Soissons, Oise, the channel, and ends in the entry of theRoyal one. At the level of the Notre-Dame church it turned right, followed the layout of the Old street of the Barracks and that of the street of the Barracks to finish with theRoyal one. In 1715 it was continued in right-hand side line since the street Notre-Dame until theRoyal one whose half-moon was levelled and levelled. After the war its layout was somewhat moved and a section which remains of the old street received the street name Eugene-Descambres, former mayor of Chauny

Citadel (street of)

One gave this name to the part of the old street of the suburb of Soissons ranging between the bridge of the channel of Saint-Quentin and the bridge of the river of Oise says Rouge bridge. An old plan of this part of Chauny is marked name of Citadel at this place of the old suburb.

The denomination of this street is attached to the first work undertaken under Louis XIII for the execution of the channel. The inhabitants of the district complained then about this work they said that the channel separated the city in two parts and that one of them, that where was the above mentioned street, would become “in time of war as a citadel against the inhabitants who seroient easily starve, and in times of peace easily fly, détroussez and massacre by the first spartaques ones or bad young imps who pouroient to seize of the aforesaid the peninsula and to make their fort of it. ”

Before the construction of the channel of Manicamp, the Crozat channel, which was finished in 1738, stopped in Chauny. Previously at the XVIIIe century, the navigation of Oise did not exceed this city. Chauny was then a very active port, one of richest and more commercial of the river of Oise which started in this place to carry the large boats going to Paris. Chauny was used as warehouse with the manufactured objects of the country as with all its natural productions. The cereals, the vegetables, the straw, the hays, the flaxes, the wines, the products of the factories of Saint Quentin, already flourishing under Louis XV and those of the manufacture of Saint-Gobain then to his cradle flowed into its port and were embarked there to descend Oise there, in the Seine and its affluents.

The port was called “Mainard Camp” -- a locality of this name still exists -- and was probably founded in XIIIe Siècle. It was so convenient that the site of the transshipments could contain 200 boats; it had a large deposit of pit coals of Mons.

Clèves (street of)

by street error of the Clerks on the cadrastal map; this small street leads place of the Town hall to the street of Peace; it was bored about the middle of XVe century on a site of the bucket of the castle-extremely and preserves the memory of Marie de Clèves, marries of Charles of Orleans and mother of Louis XII, died in Chauny in 1487.

She lived the “house D Orleans” built between the street of Clèves, the street of Peace, the place of the Town hall. Balcony giving on the place of the Market, the duchess attended with the processions of the religious or corporative processions and the rejoicings which were given on the public place.

Chauny had been joined together with the crown with death, which has occurred on February 7th, 1392, of White of France, duchess of Orleans, countess of Valois and of Beaumont, rams of Chauny since 1390, woman of Philippe, duke of Orleans, lord of Chauny in 1354, qu ' it had received, in exchange of other grounds, its Humbert nephew, dolphin of the Viennese, wire of Jean II the Good.

Charles VI yielded to his Louis brother the duchy of Orleans in 1391 and Chauny in 1403 gave him. Charles of Orleans, wire of this last, lord of Chauny of 1407 to 1465, celebrates as chief of the Armagnacs and especially like poet, remaria in 1441 in Marie de Clèves; from this marriage was born Louis II, lord of Chauny, become king de France under the name of Louis XII, and called “the Father of the People”.

Rope-makers (street of)

ue part of the year 1422 fact mention of a street of the Rope-makers leading of the street Hamoise (currently street of Freedom) to the walls and ditches; it for a long time disappeared. Perhaps it was only the street Victimée (street of Peace) which changed name several times. It owed to its name with a family the Rope-maker who was established there in XVe century, as well as a door, which existed in XIVe century on the site of the current Law courts. Connected by a wall to the walls of the castle-extremely, a drawbridge and two turns protected this door from the Rope-makers shot down in 1372 per permission of the duke of Orleans, lord of Chauny. Its materials were employed to close the town of stone walls. It is as from this time which Chauny had its continuous wall belt that it preserved until worms the end of the XVIIIe century.

Horn (street of)

this street disappeared at the beginning from the XIXe century. It opened on the street of Bridge-Royal at the point where, in 1914 the house N° 19 rose and it finished with the ramparts vis-a-vis the bastion of Aumale. In 1400 one named it lane of Moy, of the name of a family Moy or Mouy which resided at it. At the sixteenth century, it lost this denomination to take that of street of the Horn, of a sign which was used to recognize the house and the shop of a clothier of the name of Horn (1524) living this street.

Formerly “the marchiet with cheeses” was held once per week with the angle of this street and the street of theRoyal one.

Ditches (old woman street of)

it is the old rue du Cimeti2ere/, become street Eugene Levaslot. Beginning street Pasteur to finish with the street Charles-Brunette, it formed part of the way called formerly street of the Turn of City, and in the past of Main road of Saint-Quentin. It is that indeed, in the past when one wanted to gain the road of Ham and Saint-Quentin with cars, one was in the obligation to cross the door of Pissot, to circumvent the ravelin which defended the access of them, and côtoyer the ditches of the place.

This street dominated the fountain of the shoe and the major part of the ditches where Jeu de Paume in edge of the old bastion Holy-Cross is established.

The play of palm is one of the oldest plays of exercise, mentioned in France. The people impassioned themselves so much for this play which an ordinance of 1394 prohibited it like ruinous for the families. One plays palm with Chauny for a long time. The Collard brothers and Ferry of Mailly, both governors of Chauny in 1431, were going the every day to play palm.

July 12th, 1624 defense was made to the inhabitants, with young people of the city and the suburbs, to be exerted with the play of the open-air tennis, nor others, that the feastdays, under penalty of fine and of banishment the third time. Breadth April 7th, 1680 was made acquisition of a garden to establish there a play of open-air tennis for the exercise of youth.

A good game of palm was seen in 1710 in the garden of the Arquebus established since 1654 between the current street Aristide-Briand and street Drouot. It disappeared in 1825. In April 1789 there was a project of establishment of a new handset of palm.

Ditches of the castle (street of)

one gave this denomination to the part of the old street Hamoise (street of Freedom) ranging between the place of the Town hall and the street of current Peace. It owed its name of what it bordered the site of the old ditches of the castle-extremely which closed the place on this side, ditches filled in the middle of XVe century.

Furnace in Claye (street of)

small very old narrow street, leading street of Paris to the street Aristide Briand. It still preserves by its name the memory of the one of the old communal ovens. That of this street belonged by undivided to the monks of Prémontré and to Jehan, lord of the Mill-Chevreux with Ognes (XIVe century).

Another communal oven, named Bourguel furnace, was in the Saint Martin's day suburb, and another in the street Folette, with the Roadway, which one called also street of the Furnace.

Ganton (street)

the old street or Ganton lane led street Hamoise to the Bouzier place. It draws its name from a brook, the Ru Ganton, which goes down from the heights of Selaine and flows in the river of Brouage behind the Institution Saint-Charles; it fed formerly the ditches of the fortifications.

Dice 1374 one installed in this street a house of loose women. In 1404 a sergeant of sword, Jehan Screw, bought this house and drove out his noisy tenants. Without home, they continued their ashamed trade in the fields, in particular in that of Ribauds, in northern edge of the current Saint-Momble place. Spoiling harvests, the owners complained. At this point in time the Town hall intervened, and acquired of another house of this street to place the insane women “repairants with Chauny”. There exists in Cartulaire of the city and the Communal records of Chauny of the letters and an ordinance of the duke Louis of Orleans relative to this business.

At the XVIIe century this street was called the Tiny ones; when these monks installed, in 1618, their convent in a rather vast ground ranging between the street Victimée (left the street of Peace) and the bastion of the King who was consequently called bastion of the Tiny ones. The principal building of this convent was still occupied by the gendarmerie in 1914. At that time this small way was called street of the Prison, of the prison of the gendarmerie which was built there. It was removed after the war, but a section is still existing.

Godelen (street)

place of Brouage led to the bridge of the Cows. Until the end of XVIe century it was limited to the east by the cemetery of the Saint Martin's day church originally established in the vicinity. The river of Brouage which passes to the bridge Cows -- thus named because it was used as passage with the cattle which one carried out to feed in the meadows of Bailly -- was useful, in XVe and XVIe centuries, to carry by boat corn to the mills, and construction materials intended for repairs of the Saint Martin's day church. This bridge, broken in 1650, was temporarily rebuilt a little further. This street which bore the surname of Godelent, living there already in XIIIe century, was also called street of the Tambourine, then street Of the forging mills of Vassens.

Desforges de Vassens was a anoblie family in 1661 for the brilliant share which it had taken with the defense of Own way besieged by the Spaniards. Several of its members were lords of Beaumé and of Vassens at the XVIIIe century and some lived Chauny, street Hamoise, in the house which still carried in 1914 on its pinion the date of 1671. May 7th, 1741 took place with Chauny the marriage of Hippolyte Thimothée Desforges, lord of Beaumé, wire of fire Charles François Desforges, civil and criminal lieutenant with the bailliage of Ribemont, lord partly of Lavaqueresse, and Madeleine de Langellerie, with Marie-Marguerite-Gabrielle Souaille de Chamoreau, who died on June 8th, 1786.

Aime-Cyr-Marcellin Desforges de Vassens, born on January 11th, 1787, entered to the service of the armies at 15 years, attended the battle of Austerlitz; twice quoted with the day order of the army, it was decorated on October 12th, 1812 in Moscow by Napoleon i. Wounded in Koenisberg, captive fact by the Russians, returned to France, it was in Waterloo; it defended Fère in 1814; captain of artillery and ordering the fort of Ham in 1830, it took his retirement afterwards six years. Associated, then mayor of Chauny, it died on August 9th, 1875.

Large-marsh-Goyau or Goyer-Marsh or of the Shepherd (lane of)

old way, which is nothing any more but one path leading of the suburb of Pissot to the fountain of the Bubble, street of Works of China. This fountain passed formerly to mark abundance or the food shortage of corn, by the increase or the reduction in its water, predicts which must go back to the most moved back times. The Goyer-Marsh was a sub-fief had in 1609 by Madeleine Grouchet, widow of Jean of Jay. In 1659 a sentence validated the seizure of this stronghold.

Jean of Jay was elected mayor into 1580,1582,1584,1586 and 1589; its love for the fatherland and its wisdom making it necessary to the State, it was continued by order of the king of 1590 to 1593; he was also secretary of the king.

Hamoise (street)

known of any seniority, this street led place of the Town hall to the avenue of Selaine; it was formerly closed by the ramparts; a simple postern, practicable only for the pedestrians gave access on the road of Ham and Saint-Quentin, after having circumvented the bastion of Genlis

In front of the postern a martyrdom was set up, and close from there a revolving mill with oil with wind (XVe century).

In XVe and XVIe centuries this street was inhabited by the majority of the rich families of Chauny. It had still partly preserved this privilege until 1914. It is the street of current Freedom.

In 1914 one still noticed there some dwellings of the XVIIe century having belonged to the Souaille family which gave several magistrates to the city. One of them carried on its pinion the date of 1676 and one monkey (emblem and nickname of Chaunois) carved on one of its chimneys; another located at the intersection of the streets Hamoise and Charles Brunette was cut down only at the beginning of the year 1925. Thus the last disappeared from the curious specimens of the civil architecture of half of the XVIIe century that we still had in Chauny.

Hangest (street of)

name of Hangest, lords of Genlis, of which one, François de Hangest, were governor of Chauny in 1560. This street leads street of Paris to there street Aristide-Briand. With the crossing of this street with that called Old woman of Brouage, rose the door of Hangest, Boundary-line or Saint Martin's day.

Built towards half of XIVe century by order of Philippe de France, duke of Orleans, lord of Chauny, the door of Hangest, surmounted by a house being used as housing, contained in its interior part a part intended to the guard and for the middle-class men in charge in turn of his monitoring. This door disappeared following the work undertaken about the year 1761, for the creation of a walk known as of the Esplanade which, increased considerably, became the Bouzier place.

A lease was authorized by Jean de Hangest, lord of “Genli and of Maigny” (Genlis and Guiscard) to the mayor and sworn of Chauny of “the residence of the door of ladicte town of Chauny with lez towards Saint Martin's day, named the door of Hangest” which depended on the “chastel and ground of Genlis”.

Jews (street of)

it was one of oldest and important streets of Chauny. It opened on the street of Bridge-Royal and was closed towards the west by the Saint Martin's day ramparts. This street was prolonged by the boring of the ramparts at the beginning of the XVIIIe century. The street of the Jews preserves us the memory of the families of Jewish race which lived Chauny with the Middle Ages. This way had been assigned to them like place of habitat, to live isolated from the remainder of the population. It could not be there more than four Jews families. This number having been exceeded, king Philippe the Bold one ordered to expel the families which were of surplus (1275).

In Chauny, like everywhere else at that time, the Jews were the object of arbitrary and violent measurements; many ordinances with regard to them spread out since Philippe Auguste to Jean the Good.

One saw in this street several houses or hotels having particular signs In 1914 some old dwellings were still noticed there of which one carried the date of 1575.

When the convent of Holy-Claire or Cordelières formerly in the Saint Martin's day suburb was transported in the street of the Jews, this street then took the street name of the Nuns denomination which it preserved until the Revolution, called then street of the Truth, then street of Boundary-line, since 1928 it became street of Paris.

Market (place of)

the place of the Market or Great place occupied about the center of the old city; it was increased at various times to become what it is today, a large-sized place called places Town hall. It was named the Market, “Marchiet de Chauny emprès the ostel-god” in 1403, “the marquiet”. In spite of its denomination of Great Place, it was then a place of quite restricted size, located between the refuge of the current place and the street of the Republic. At the beginning of XVe century this place was included/understood between the street of Blocq, old part of the street of theRoyal one -- close to the Hospital, which was used later as common house and was demolished about 1879 --, the ditches of the castle-extremely which advanced until the medium of the current place. In the east, with the site of the current Law courts, the drawbridge of the Rope-makers was, in front of his denomination with a family the Rope-maker. On this side was held of the close gravers a cross built on the place close to the ditches, and some dwelling houses.

West coast rose also some houses of which one in 1450, making the corner of the market, belonged to Jean Courdel. This house still bordered a well dug in front of the house of essequié (the Chess-board) existing under this name in 1563; it then belonged, as well as a nearby ground, with Mr. Louis de Moy de Gomeron, governor of Ham of 1585 to 1598. It was on this ground that was started in 1570 the construction of the Saint Martin's day church, destroyed in 1917.

In September 1414, to I' occasion of the rebuilding of the fortifications of the city, a festival was given on the place of the Market; in the presence of Mr. de Guyenne and of the duke Charles of Orleans, a juggler chaunois of the name of Mathieu, known as the Squirrel, and his/her three children, carried out feats of skill.

It is indeed on this place that the famous jugglers chaunois and the brothers of Passion gave spectacles. It is still in this place of the city that one lit fires called Brandons, around which one danced, and which public rejoicings were given at the time of the election of the mayor and the aldermen which took place each year the day of Midsummer's Day. At once the finished election, the new mayor was transferred onto the place, preceded by the music and the servants of city, carrying lit torches, follow-up of sworn and aldermen who formed procession to him. Crowd furnished this place, in the center of which rose immense to rough-hew. There, the new mayor pronounced the oath, then the ceremony ended in the bonfire to which one gave the name of fire of Midsummer's Day. It is into 1431 that happened, with the accesses of the place of the Market, the most curious fact and more moving by the history of Chauny: the catch and destruction of the castle-extremely by Chaunois (see street of the Low court of the Castle).

After this destruction, the northern side of the place started to be built, of the new ways, whose street of Clèves, were bored; one employed the remains of the castle to build dwelling houses.

In edge of the street of Clèves and place of the Market was built the “House of Orleans” and in which lived a few years, Marie de Clèves (see street of Clèves). November 10th, 1480, about the middle of the afternoon, Marie de Clèves, of her balcony looked to ravel on the place of the Market a brilliance procession accompanying the provost by the brotherhood of Saint Martin's day, lately elected. This one went place of Brouage to receive the nomination in the church of its owner.

Of Chauny much this princess liked the stay who died in this house in 1487. With judging some by a made inventory with Chauny in July of this year and which is at the National library, the furnishing of the “House of Orleans” was richer.

Marie de Clèves, to support the establishment with Chauny of the monks of Holy-Cross, made them gift of this house, on July 26th, 1485.

The place of the Market was also the place of the public executions. In 1485, several marked women of sorcery there were fustigated and faded of a flower of lily to the two cheeks. The following year, three brigands of main road were decapitated there.

About this time Charles VIII visited Chauny; having penetrated by the Hamoise door, the king crossed the place of the Market and traversed the city to the Notre-Dame church, acclaimed by all the people.

One century after the destruction of the castle-extremely, of the remains of this one were still used for construction of the Royal Audience, including/understanding a room where the Justice and the Room of the Council went, a part to keep the titles of the field, another reserved to the notaries, an attic to tighten corns of the king and a prison. Built in 1534 with the permission of François 1st, burned partly in 1552 by the queen of Hungary, Marie of Austria, it was entirely destroyed by the Spaniards in 1557. Rebuilt in 1566, there still existed at the XVIIIe century, the site of the left part of the frontage of the current Town hall.

It is on Monday, October 5, 1609 that place in the Royal Audience had the drafting and reformation of the habit of Chauny in the presence of a great number of lords, ecclesiastics, magistrates, churls and inhabitants come from all the places arising with the bailliage of Chauny.

During the famous head office of Chauny in July 1652 by the Spaniards, 2 to 3.000 of those having succeeded in penetrating in the city by the casemates and the bastions of the King and of Genlis, devastated the convents of Holy-Cross and Tiny and the houses close to the place of the Market.

Under the Revolution the place of the Market took the name of place of Freedom. December 20th, 1793 a tree of Freedom there was planted, which gave place to great public rejoicings.

Mills (street of)

thus called because it led to the mills of Brouage, this street opens close to the Institution Saint-Charles and led towards the fountain of Réculy and the meadows of Ognes. This way was known at the XVIIIe century under the name of Chemin of Chauny with Ognes. These mills, called old man mills to distinguish them from those named new mills or mills of Saint-Lazare, were created beyond XIIe century.

In 1170, Philippe of Alsace, count de Flandre, lord of Chauny, gave them to the canons of Saint-Eloi-Fountain, who preserved them until the Revolution. They had in their dependence a certain extent of territory called round of applause; within the limits of this district, no one could not establish a mill without a permission of the owners of the Old Mills.

The men who lived in the round of applause could not exempt themselves to go to grind their corn with these mills. However, according to a charter of 1213, the inhabitants of Chauny could grind and cook where good seemed to them.

These mills were ruined by the wars of XIVe century, by the Spaniards in 1557, who kept in mind not to strengthen this city to await the gun, known as of Rabutin, but to have there a fort great ease of the best mills which were on the river. Devastated by the troops of prince d' Orange in 1569, these mills are burnt in the night of May 18th, 1654. At this last time, Chauny and its surroundings were used during several years of camping with the armies as Louis XIV; the police chiefs of the vivres S seized the mills and made there grind “the villages without paying any reward and prevented the inhabitants from grinding theirs there”.

The Old Mills, considered and extremely praised in the country, say the investigations of then, brought back more profit in time of war than in times of peace: “There was no miller who had left there gueux”.

The street of the Mills became street Camille-Desmoulins, since 1928.

Prolonged Navoirs (street of)

this street, side with the way of the railroad, was the prolongation of the street of Navoirs, called formerly of Navoir or Navoy, and which opened formerly in the street of the Roadway between the houses carrying the numbers 119-121.

The navoirs, of navis, formerly divided into Small and Large Navoirs, extended from the site of the station close which existed a street of the Marshes become street Desmarest, to the headland on which are built Sinceny They are marshy meadows bathed by Oise and located on two banks of this river. There is still a great part. They defended on this side the approach of primitive Chauny.

Navoirs were given to the city by Philippe the Beautiful one, the month of July 1290, the responsibility of repair and maintain the roads and the bridges. In November 1595, the king Henri IV gave to the inhabitants of Chauny a portion of meadow in Navoirs, coming from the restoring price level of 1 ' Oise. In 1766 these meadows approximately 100 arpents contained and were rented 3.700 books.

The street of Navoirs still exists under this name, that of Navoirs prolonged is, since 1928, called street Géo-Lufbéry.

Notre-Dame (street)

start with the Roadway to lead to the street Jean of the Fountain, and passes at midday of the Notre-Dame church.

With Xe century, time to which Chauny appears in the History, existed already a Notre-Dame church whose foundation remained unknown. It was built on the site even or in the immediate vicinity of that rebuilt after the war, where was the cradle of our city.

Hundred years later, the Notre-Dame church or Sainte-Marie, was collegial regular canons; elle.devint abbey about the year 1120. The abbey of Chauny was transferred in 1139 to Saint-Eloi-Fountain (Commenchon); Notre-Dame then became prieurale and it remained in this state until XIVe century.

About the year 1367, the Notre-Dame church was strengthened; ruined in 1476, one rebuilt it only in 1525; but the inhabitants witnessed three times his destruction in the 60 years space, into 1552,1557,1575; it was as much of rebuilt time. At the beginning of the XVIIe century, thanks to liberalities of some notable of the city and with alms collected with Noyon, in Rheims and even in Paris, one could, once more, begin the rebuilding of Notre-Dame. The only part which remained of the old building was a sandstone tower built in 1210, which was used as belfry with the commune incipient from Chauny; indeed in June 1210, Simon, abbot of Notre-Dame, recognized that the bell which is in the new tower of this church was that of the commune, and allowed to employ it for all uses, provided that the ringing does not disturb the divine office; a bell-tower out of wooden, built in 1602, surmounted it; it was cut down in 1794. The bell-tower which replaced this tower was modern, it went back to 1859.

Notre-Dame preserved for a long time the bones of Momble saint, which were the object of the veneration of the people. An inventory, drawn up in 1576, still mentions existence of the chief of this saint, second owner of the Notre-Dame church and owner of Chauny. In 1672 one Te Deum was sung in this church at the time of the naval victory gained by Duquesne over the fleets Spanish and Dutch.

This church was removed under the Revolution and was used as salpêtrière; returned to the worship in 1803, the factory was removed by it in 1808. It was only on December 14th, 1828, which under the terms of a royal decree, Notre-Dame was set up in branch.

Obelisk (street of)

opened in 1761 on the site of the old Saint Martin's day ramparts which closed the city in the west, this way forms now part of the street Aristide Briand; it led street of Boundary-line to the street of the Arquebus, at the place called formerly place of the Obelisk. Its name had been given to him following erection, in 1790, of a pyramid or obelisk, five meters height; this obelisk was replaced in 1825 by another, raised in memory of the sacring of king de France; this second obelisk was demolished in 1854.

The first obelisk was set up as a sign of thanks to the patriots chaunois for the enthusiastic reception made with the electoral Parliament which took place in May 1790 in the Saint Martin's day church for the choice of the chief town of the department of Aisne, It is in this assembly where there were tumults, cabals and intrigues, which Saint-Just, which was to become famous like Conventionnel, made his political beginnings.

Here some extracts of a letter which he addressed on June 3rd, 1790, in Camille Desmoulins and in which he reported its first political success obtained with Chauny:

“If you were occupied less, I would go into some details on the assembly of Chauny where men of all hardenings and all gauges were. In spite of my minority, I was received… ; I left in charge of compliments like the ass relics, having however confidence that with the next legislature, I could be yours with the National Assembly”.

To the last meeting of this assembly (May 20th) it was proceeded to the poll. The result, for 450 voters (out of 645 assistants) gave 411 votes to Laon, against 37 in Soissons, plus a blank vote and another for the rotation.

This result was announced to the inhabitants of Chauny, with the sound of the bells and the noise of the gun, mixed with the noisy demonstrations with joy with the voters.

After the demarcation of the districts and cantons, it is in Chauny that the administrative organization of the department of Aisne finished.

It is a beautiful page of the history of Chauny

Let us add that the older sister of Conventional Saint-Just, Louise-Marie, married, to 22 years, Emmanuel-François Decaisne, notary, originating in Saint-Quentin, and who had installed his study with Blérancourt. In 1829, the notary died and its widow withdrew herself in Chauny, at one of her sons where it died out, at the 89 years age, in 1857.

Orleans (street of); the street of Orleans was the prolongation of the street of Stones towards the old ramparts of Pissot, in the East. With the street of Stones it was called street Charles-Brunette until 1928; she took then the street name of Peace. She extended from the street of Clèves to the staircases of the Walks.

Its name as that of the street of Clèves devoted the memory of the dukes of Orleans, lords of Chauny. We speak about these dukes at the heading street of Clèves; we will say here still some words of the duke Charles of Orleans and his wife Marie de Clèves, mother of Louis XII, king de France.

Charles, duke of Orleans, to avenge death for his Louis father 1st, assassinated in 1407 per order of the duke of Burgundy, caused the bloody quarrel of the Armagnacs and the Burgundian ones. Then it fought valorously in Azincourt, where it was made prisoner. Taken along to England, there remained twenty-five years prisoner there. During his captivity, the duke of Orleans suffered to be able to take share neither with bad, nor with the good fortune of his fatherland, it was comforted by making touching worms and national laments.

Poetries of the duke Charles of Orleans are the most invaluable monument of our language in XVe century, and however they remained buried a long time in the lapse of memory. The Sallier abbot is the first which drew attention to this poet, in a report read with the Academy in 1734.

These poetries were published in a complete way only in 1842, by Mr. Aimé Champollion-Figeac. “What distinguishes these poetries particularly, Mr. Champollion in the excellent note says which precedes its collection, it is delicacy in the feeling, the grace in the thought, the good taste in the expression, research in the style, the variety in the turn of the worms. ”.

We will quote of them some fragments, which one will not read without interest.

LAMENT, OF FRANCE

1st Verse. France, formerly one soulait you to name In all feed, the treasure of nobility; Because one each one pouvoit in loy to find Kindness, honor, honesty, kindness, Clergie, direction, courtesy, proess: All estrangiers amoient to suir you (to follow you, to imitate you). And now, voy, of which I ay desplaisance, That it is advisable to you many objection badly to support, Very crestien, frank kingdom of France.

BALLADE

1st Verse.

While looking towards feed of France Ung day me avint, in Dovre on the sea That he remembered the doulce pleasure That souloye oùdit feed to find. If commençay of cuor with souspirer, How much certainly that grant well made me To see France, that my bitter cuor (to like) must.

ANOTHER BALLADE

1st Verse.

I fu in flower, or (with) last time of childhood, And then after soothsayers fruit in youth; At the time me abaty of the tree of Pleasure Green and not mor (ripe), Madness, my mistress: And for this, the Reason, which any righting With its pleasure, without wrong and méprison (error) Has me justifiably, by its très-grant wisdom, Put to meurir where straw (1) 2 of prison.

We finish these some quotations by a fragment of a rondo entitled: the Revival (spring), small charming part, and whose modern grace could not approach.

Time, left its coat Of wind, of coldness and pluye, And is vestu of broderye Of sun striping, cler and beautiful There is not beste oyseau Whether in its jargon does not sing or shouts: Time left its coat Of wind, of coldness and pluye.

To pay his ransom, the duke of Orleans, in 1440 sold Chauny, Condren, Frières and their memberships of the duke of Burgundy, but shortly after its return in France repurchased its field. The two families remained enemy since the assassination of the first duke of Orleans reconciled themselves. Peace was cemented by the marriage of Charles of Orleans with Marie de Clèves, then 15 years old, girl of the duke of Burgundy.

In 16643, Tours, the duke Charles of Orleans wanting to justify the duke of Brittany which had just shown the king Louis XI, this one answered Charles of Orleans with so much of hardness, showing it of criminal intentions, which this prince, then old from seventy-four years, very withdrew disturbed, fell sick from emotion, and died on January 4th, 1465.

He had had of Marie de Clèves, his third wife: 1° Louis duke of Orleans, become king de France, under the name of Louis XII; 2° Marie of Orleans, which married Jean de Foix, Viscount of Narbonne; and 3° Anne of Orleans, which took the veil at fourteen years and became abbess of Fontevrault.

The taste of poetry was shared by the partner of the duke of Orleans, Marie de Clèves, mother, we repeat it, of the king Louis XII. It was it which inspired this taste with his/her son, too young person when he lost his father, to undoubtedly be able to receive lessons from them. None the biographers of Louis XII mentioned this circumstance of its life, which would have remained been unaware of still a long time, if Mr. Champion had not discovered, at the end of a Latin manuscript pertaining to the old library of the dukes from Orleans, in Blois, a small poem, composed by the duke Louis of Orleans, at the 10 years age. Its life more agitated and more seriously occupied than that of his/her father, undoubtedly did not enable him to cultivate a talent which, if one judges some by the elegance of a fragment which we quote hereafter, were far from degenerating.

THE BOOK AGAINST VERY SINNED, BY LOUIS XII

(Fragment)

Who veult with grant honor to come It must the love God acquire Because without icelle moiennent No one cannot make bonnement No morals ëuvre For this pri with the Trinity And umility rams it That ilz me wants such direction to give That a book can compose Who is of any utility, Pourfitant with humanity, And honor of God, and prouffit Of that which this book made, Which book is called, The book against very sinned.

As we already mentioned, Louis XII was lord of Chauny and his/her mother, Marie de Clèves, died in our city.

Pissot (street of the suburb of)

Formerly the way carrying out of the door of Pissot, shot down in 1772, until the limit of Viry, bore the street name of Pissot. Later, starting from the street of the Brewery (street of Eure-et-Loir) and towards the direction of Tergnier, it took the street name of the suburb of Pissot; it is a section of the trunk road N° 38 of Chauny with Fère, built under the reign of Louis XIV.

The suburb of Pissot crossed by this way owes its name with the abundance of its water, said the P. Labbé in its History of Chaulny. One sees there indeed on the southern slope of the Mount of the Martyrdom of the very abundant sources which enlarge the river of Hélot or brook of Viry, more known with Chauny under the name of “Bank”.

This suburb called Pissot-lez-Chauny in 1422 and Puisseau on an old level preserved at the National library, was formerly a seigniory linked with that of Senicourt at the XVIIe century, which was had by the house of Oignies, house illustrates appearing honourably in the History, to pass then in the hands of a sior of Fricamp, then in those of the lords of Genlis.

One had given the name of ramparts of Pissot to those which closed the city, between the Door of Pissot, located then at the angle of the current Law courts on the side of the police station, and the still existing bastion Holy-Cross in the Walks and whose point advances towards the play of Palm.

Under the Revolution, a Dochez house, in Pissot, was transformed into prison. The part of the old street of Pissot lain between Viry and the street of Senicourt, at the Bigand Fund, now bear the street name of Fère; bottom-Bigand with the boulevard Gambetta street Pasteur.

Pont-Royal (street of)

it is one of the oldest streets of Chauny; its name applied hitherto to all the way ranging between the place of the Town hall and the bridge to the river of Hélot or brook of Viry, from where its name of “royal”, of “Ru”, with its outlet on the street of the Roadway. Under this denomination of Bridge-Royal, it finished in the past with Butcheries, i.e. at the point where the street of the Post office starts; it was then closed by a door, that of the Roadway, was called theRoyal one since 1408, and which was demolished in 1766.

The part ranging between the street Hébert (street of the Post office) and places it Town hall formerly bore the name of “Blocq” or “Blocque” because it led to the ditches of the castle and that at its end the enclosure of the city finished. The section carried successively the following denominations: Main street in XVIe century, street of the Merchants at the XVIIe century, and again in 1872; still street of Blocq in 1780, rue de la Réunion in 1793, then belonged to the street of theRoyal one.

This street, whose layout probably goes back to XIIe century, during the construction of the castle-extremely, is currently called street of the Republic.

With the angle of the street of Bridge-Royal and place of the Market the Hospital built in XVIe century rose. After the wars of religion, this building having been saved, the mayor and sworn made the common house of it. This Town hall was cut down only in 1879; it was stone and bricks a building built. It contained rooms arched in warhead, capitals and the pendentive interesting ones; it was surmounted by a small dome out of wooden in which five bells were of which one was one of oldest of France. A sundial had been posed on the frontage of this building in 1754 per Louis Minard “forger of quadrans” which, for the construction of this instrument, had received 8 books.

Formerly, among the dwellings of the street of Bridge-Royal, one noticed several private mansions among which we will quote: the Hotel in Heaume (1407); the Hotel with the Peacock (1402); close to butcheries, the Vrevin Hotel, where Louis XIV laid down the night of February 28th, 1677 whereas it went to Flanders to make the seats of Valencians and Cambric; its reception cost 452 pounds the city. Louis XIV had already visited Chauny in 1668.

The house which, in 1914, carried N° 18, built out of wood, went back to 1577; its frontage was covered with arabesques. It was the oldest house of Chauny -- inhabited in XVIe century by the Gueullette family -- with that of the street of Boundary-line (street of Paris) which carried, engraved in the stone, the date of 1575. It was destroyed in February 1917.

Holy-cross (dead end)

this dead end was open in second half of XVe century on the site of the castle-extremely destroyed by Chaunois in February 1431. It owes its denomination with a convent of Holy-Cross, occupied in the past by the monks of this name. Originally established in Condren (in May 1277), these monks had formed the project to withdraw themselves in Chauny. Marie de Clèves, duchess of Orleans, ram of Chauny, supported their project; it made them gift of part of the dependences of the old castle, and its “House of Orleans” on July 26th, 1485; Me Simon Héron gave them another house close to the castle and the ditches Holy-Cross. It is thus in this place that the monks built their convent and their church. The Innocent pope VIII and the bishop of Boundary-line had given their assent. This one devoted their church in the honor of Holy-Cross and blesses the cemetery. Were buried in this church:

Louis 1st of Sorel, lord of Ugny-the-Gay, buried on September 5th 18544; Mrs. de Sorel, woman of the count Louis of Saint-Simon, deceased on August 22nd, 1685; Valiant Nicolas, sior of Aizecourt, rider, former captain with the regiment of Normandy, constable of Arquebusiers de Chauny.

At the time where one projected the construction of barracks with Chauny, the Intendant of Soissons authorized Mr. de Théis, its subdelegated with Chauny, to notify the orders of the king approving the made choice of a house annexed to the convent Holy-Cross to build the body of the barracks. The acquisition of this house was made by the town hall without for that the project accepting a beginning of execution. Much more, the city not seeing coming the help promised in the name of the king and which one had flattered it, gave up the house which one had just acquired, resold it and was opposed to the continuation of a granting on the drinks which ruined the locality without profit (1736-1737). This granting was to make it possible the town of remove part of the expenses of construction.

The convent was removed with the Revolution; the administrative commission of the district of Chauny settled on June 10th, 1790 there.

In 1828, the community of the Girls of the Cross bought the old convent of Holy-Cross, and its boarding school transferred to it then to the Tiny ones. Dispersed after the Great War, the Girls of the Cross solicited in 1924, an favorable opinion of the Municipal council of Chauny for the sale at the city of the ground pertaining to the community. Their vault was destroyed in 1917; the walls is and northern which surrounded the old convent are very old; they still exist.

Saint-Eloi (way)

it is a way which crosses, in the north of the city, road of Boundary-line towards Viry, the Saint-Eloi locality, also called Arbre of Saint-Eloi. This denomination comes to him from what the bishop of holy Boundary-line Eloi (588-659), rested in this place under a tree, when, from Commenchon where he liked to seek the rest, he was going to return visit to the hermits of Condren. This tree, then located close to the way of Coil, was still announced in 1378, as being of colossal size.

Saint Martin's day (street)

in the past this name was given to the street Victimée which currently forms part of the street of Peace, between the street of Freedom and the Bouzier place; this name was also applied to a passage established in 1657 between the place of the Market and the Saint Martin's day church, whereas the street current Saint Martin's day did not exist. This passage, missing today, still existed in 1914 but its access was not allowed any more. The street current Saint Martin's day modern and is led place of the Town hall to the street of the Stones and crosses the site of the old cemetery in the medium of which a martyrdom was drawn up. The bishop of Bayeux and that of Soissons blessed this cemetery in 1571.

In the past the Saint Martin's day church was built in the suburb to which it had given its name and which one names today Brouage, on the grounds ranging between the Bouzier places and of Brouage, the old Saint-Momble streets and of Boundary-line. Ruined several times by the civil wars and nuns, it was decided about the year 1563 to rebuild it in the interior of the borough, with the shelter of the ramparts. For this purpose one chooses the site of the house of “I' Echiquier” pertaining to Mr. de Gomeron, and one began construction of it about the year 1570; work lasted 70 years.

This church, which undergoes during the centuries some additions or modifications is that we know before 1917, date of its destruction. The king Louis XIV heard the mass there on March 1st, 1677, whereas it was of passage to Chauny where it placed one night with the hotel of Vrevin, street of theRoyal one.

What much Chaunois is unaware of, it is that the Saint Martin's day church was used as meeting room electoral at the time of the first Parliament representative of the department of I' Aisne, then in formation, from May 17th to 26th 1790; more than 600 voters and deputies, come from all the points of the department, took part in its work (see street of the Obelisk).

It is thus in the Saint Martin's day church that was established, after several meetings of most stormy, the administrative organization of our department, and that in particular choice of the chief town was decided that Laon and Soissons disputed.

In 1793, the organ and all furniture were sold by the national agent, then the church was unused. Returned to the worship on June 16th, 1803, the parish of Notre-Dame is joined together to him. By episcopal decision of 1808, Saint Martin's day remained until 1828 the only parish church with Notre-Dame like appendix.

On the walls of this church one still saw traces of the famous seat of 1652 during which the Sagnier priest “sharpened” on the Spaniards the gun then installed on the lathe of the church.

The new Saint Martin's day church was rebuilt on the site of old.

Saint-Momble (street)

this street, which led Bouzier place to that of Brouage, was open after the demolition of the first Saint Martin's day church towards the end of XVIe century. One still saw in 1729 a cross known as the green cross set up on the site which this church had occupied. This street was called initially street Tatin; in 1873 it bore already the name of Saint-Momble.

Saint-Momble is the owner of the town of Chauny. Irishman of nationality, monk of profession, disciple of Fursi, it came to France about year 650. Set out again in the country of the Anglo-Saxons, it returned soon to France, recalled by Clovis II. Prior of Lagny which he flees shortly after his arrival, seeking loneliness, he is established in Condren where he builds a hermitage. He died there in odor of holiness, on November 18th, 654, according to Coliette, and buried in the place which he had built.

To IXe century the bishops of Cambric and Boundary-line transferred the body from the saint in the parish church dedicated to Saint Pierre. Little time after it was brought to Chauny in the Notre-Dame church, in which one returned honor so much to him that this church was called church also of Saint-Momble. The holy relics, deposited in a money mounting, remained there until 1567; they are the calvinists who dispersed them. But the chief of the saint having been found, says one, it was put in a money vase.

French martyrologe of Of Soussay reports that the body of Momble saint was carried in the monastery of Lagny and from there transported later in Chauny. Mabillon ensures that of its time (XVIIe century), the relics of this saint were preserved in the convent of Saint-Eloi-Fountain at Commenchon.

It would be towards the beginning of XIIe century that the worship of Saint-Momble would have been introduced in Notre-Dame de Chauny. There was procession by the city on August 29th, day of its second translation.

The street Saint-Momble now forms part of the street of Peace, and the name of the Saint was given to the old Verte place.

Selaine (which occurred and suburb of)

it is the name of a small small valley located at the north of the city whose slopes were still very wooded at the beginning of the Middle Ages; the least broken parts uncultivated and were then called larris or laugh.

Formerly noble stronghold, it was with the Middle Ages an extremely large suburb and populated well, with a church placed under the invocation of Saint-Hippolyte; it was ruined completely during the wars of XVe and XVIe centuries.

It is crossed by the old road of Saint-Quentin, named today trunk road N° 37 of Castle-Thierry with Béthune, which took the name of suburb of Selaine, it very not a long time ago, starting from the street Vieille road of Boundary-line in the direction of Genlis. The avenue of Selaine which continued it to the street Hamoise (street of Freedom), was established in 1765 after the demolition of the Hamoise door and the levelling of the bastion of Genlis. It is on this date that the Walks after a communal deliberation of May 21st, 1765 were created; a stop of the Council of the king, returned to Versailles on August 5th, 1766, approved the deliberation and authorized work; the New Walks, on the left from the beginning of the old avenue of Selaine, go back to 1874; they occupy the site of the old ramparts, between the bastion of Genlis and that of Tiny or of the King.

The seigniory of Selaine had particular lords; the greatest part was given by it in 1212 to the Saint-Eloi-Fountain abbey; sold on January 15th, 1563 to François de Hangest, it was allocated to the monks of Commenchon who yielded it on February 4th, 1577 to Antoinette de Sépoix, rams of Deuillet and of the Villette (Caumont) it was finally restored again with Saint-Eloi-Fountain by stop of the Parliament of Paris of March 15th, 1642.

Currently the avenue of Selaine is called which occurred Victor-Hugo and the suburb, street of Saint-Quentin.

Senicourt (which occurred of)

Senicourt quoted before Chauny under the name of Seneri curtis into 917, was a hamlet which depended formerly on the parish Saint Martin's day de Chauny under the term of Saint-Jean-Baptist, to which the people gave formerly the strange name of Saint-Alivergot, word who, says one, is Celtic and means decapitated man, allusion to the Jean-Baptiste saint. The monks of Saint-Crow of Compiegne, the church of Boundary-line the abbey of Saint-Eloi-Fountain, Prémontrés, king Saint-Louis, the chapellenie of Gésine de Noyon, had goods there.

The suburb of this name was formerly made mainly of marshy grounds; it was a noble stronghold which had particular lords. King Saint-Louis made some acquisitions in 1266 there. With Viry-Noureuil it formed one stronghold under the name of Sart; it belonged to the marquisat of Genlis in 1645.

The avenue of Senicourt is modern it received, in 1928, the new denomination of Jean-Jaurès.

Soissons (street of the suburb of)

established on an old Gallic way, become trunk road N° 37 of Castle-Thierry with Béthune, this street led channel to the limit of Sinceny-Autreville; it was a prolongation of the Roadway. In its medium, on the line in direction of Coucy, and close to the bridge Saint-Claude, drew up formerly a martyrdom, vis-a-vis a patch of land belonging to the community of Sinceny-Autreville, part which was located at the north of the Girandelle stronghold.

Close to this place, on the left of the road, a vault was built whose blessing took place on October 21st, 1865 by Mgr Jean Jules Dours, bishop of Soissons and Laon. This vault, destroyed in 1917, was not rebuilt.

Since the war, the layout of this street named now street of Soissons, was slightly deferred towards the west.

It is in edge of this way that draw up the immense factories of the Company of Saint-Gobain: the Soda one and before the war the Mirror factory.

In first half of XVIe century, Marie of Luxembourg -- who was lady of Chauny -- establishes in Saint-Gobain an important glassmaking which gave rise to the Manufacture of the Ices of Saint-Gobain and Chauny, of a universal fame and whose formidable development made so much for the prosperity and the wellbeing of the area, and in particular of the town of Chauny.

To exonerate tribute which France paid in Venice which, protected by the fashion, had the monopoly of mirror manufacture so to speak, the Colbert minister organized a company which, placed under the orders of Nicolas Of the Walnut tree, opened in 1665 in the Saint-Anthony suburb in Paris under the title of Manufacture of the ices of mirrors by the workmen of Venice. The bad one to want workmen Venetian obliged Colbert, to transport part of manufacture in Tourlaville, close to Cherbourg, directed by Richard Lucas de Néhou. This one died in 1675, and its Louis nephew transported in 1692 the establishment of Paris to Saint-Gobain. There, he invented the mode of casting of glass which so to speak makes it possible to obtain ices of an unspecified size.

In consequence of a competition which has occurred between the establishments of Saint-Gobain and Tourlaville, it intervened into 1695 of the letters patent by which the king Louis XIV “wanting to preserve in the kingdom such an important company and to prevent from being established in the neighboring states stopped: that there would be nothing any more in France but only one and single manufacture of ices, and that it would be that of Saint-Gobain”.

The mirror factory of Chauny was the complement of that of Saint-Gobain. The 'starting point of this imposing establishment was a simple store of deposit of run ices with Saint-Gobain and supplies with Chauny, near the river and of the channel which facilitated transport of it. This store existed before the year 1703, with the place still called, in 1914, Square Saint-Médard.

Initially polished of Paris, one thought of making carry out this work with Chauny. It was to give following this project that the first hydraulic machines to polish were created in Chauny, in 1800, on the fall of a mill, on grounds bought in 1796 -- and gone up in the workshops which one still named in 1914, Old Polish.

Destroyed during the war, the Mirror factory of Chauny was transferred to Thourotte, close Compiegne.

In 1816 the Soda one of Saint-Gobain, more not to be tributary of sodas of Spain, founded soda in the old glassmaking of Charlesfontaines located at three kilometers of Saint-Gobain. By royal decree of March 12th, 1822, the Manufacture of the ices of Saint-Gobain was authorized to transfer his establishment from soda of Charlesfontaines to Chauny. This soda became the first factory of chemicals of France, with the development of which the scientists Gay-Lussac and Pelouze contributed.

The Soda one was in 1914 an immense meeting of buildings covering a space of 44 hectares; it occupied 1.500 workmen then. The annual tonnage of its production and its quality ensured a preeminence to him that no European factory, even German, was able to dispute to him.

In 1921 it was rebuilt on a vaster scale and a new level.

Old road of Boundary-line (street)

this street was thus named because it was formerly the road which led Boundary-line towards Fère; it started with the street of Ugny, passed to the north of the city above Pissot and joined the trunk road N° 38 in extreme cases of Viry. This roadway, very old, passed to Condren, Viry, in the north of Chauny where it named way of Saint-Momble and a little further the way sheet piling, of stake, pile. De Chauny this road joined main road of Chauny with Noyon, to the Tree with the image close to the fountain of Réculi, passed above the Mill-Chevreux where his trace is still found, forms in the south the limits of Neuflieux, of Caillouël and Crépigny and gained Baboeuf and Salency to lead to Noyon.

It carried the name of road of Boundary-line to Own way and in the past callis regius in XIIe century, then cauchie of Chauny

This old way was replaced under the reign of Louis XIV by the trunk road N° 38, called in 1788 route de Paris with Chauny

From Pissot to the boulevard Victor Hugo this street received since 1928 the name of Ernest Renan and to the street of Ugny, that of Journel.

When in 1667, the Marie-Therese queen going with Fère crossed Chauny by the Old road of Boundary-line, the city offered to him dry jams, frozen tarts, will hypocras, of the lemonades.

There our investigations stop on Chauny, and we thus finish the examination of the historical memories which are allotted to him. We accurately think of having formed a commemorative table of these memories coming from lived facts confirmed by the events. Admittedly, as we already expressed, much from other facts escape to us, so much it was also which were destroyed by unhappy and too many warlike circumstances. Alas! if it is necessary to evoke the invasions whose France of the North-East was the theater, during the centuries, that puts to us in the obligation to recall that Laon was besieged sixty times, since the time of César; Soissons, forty times; Chauny was ninety times the theater of battles, seats, and was devastated by the Germans in 1917.

1 (1) a veteran.

2 (1) Straw or hay on which one puts the fruits to make them mature.

3 Undoubtedly: 1464?

4 Undoubtedly: 1654?

External bonds

• Other images of Michel Leroux

• http://assoc.orange.fr/tourisme-chauny
• the official site of the city
• the not-official gate of Chauny

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