Cherves-Richemont

Cherves-Richemont is a common French located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants is called the chervois and chervoises . It is given an exceptional inheritance Environnement Al, paleontological, architectural Archéologique and .

Geography

Situation

The commune is located in the west of the department of Charente, close to the Charente-Maritime, on Right Bank of the river Charente and its climate is oceanic. It belonged to the Saintonge and the population spoke the Saintongeais. It is formed of association in 1972 communes of Cherves-of-Cognac and Richemont . It covers a surface of 3794 hectares.

Cherves-Richemont is bordering, of south-west in north, the communes of Saint-Laurent-of-Cognac, Javrezac, Louzac-Saint-Andre, Saint-Sulpice-of-Cognac, Mesnac and Bréville, all bordering on the Charente-Maritime, and the east in the Holy-Severe south of those of , Réparsac, Nercillac and Cognac.

Being given its proximity (six kilometers for the boroughs of Cherves and Richemont and eight kilometers for the village of Orlut), Cognac is the town of reference. But Matha is only with sixteen kilometers and Saintes with 26 kilometers.

Toponymy

The habitat is very dispersed with its three villages, Cherves, Orlut and Richemont and a great number of Hameau X very old which appear on the Carte of Cassini and even on former charts.

The names are evocative: in Cherves, one of the principal occupations was the culture and the steeping of the Chanvre. The “stones with hemp” along the Antenna and in the laundrette S are the last witnesses.

Richemont, built on its headland, draws its name from powerful hill ( rik as a Germain).

The name of Orlut would come for some from villa Aurelii , for others of the Gaulois and would mean “crowned wood”. The existence of druidic practices would explain why, to fight them and make them forget, the first evangelists built in this place the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre vault, a obediencery which was a time priory.

The majority of the hamlets are named according to their main feature. Thus, the toponym of Ferry signs a metallurgical site of the second age of Iron and Champblanc saw before their exploitation of the saccharoid gypsum outcrops, very white.

Masseville, like all similar names of the area, holds its name of a Roman villa and Fontenille of fontenellum (small fountain).

The Marsh east in the middle of the grounds which were drained under François I {{er}} and Groie signs a poor ground.

Houmade, the Cassotte, Palain, Crossed (in the past Francherie), Coudret, Champéroux, Grolette, the Barriers, Chanteloup, Boussac are on the Carte of Cassini but not Chantemerle nor Saint-Georges where the habitat must be more recent.

Geology

The commune is located in edge of the Aquitanian Bassin, with the limit of the grounds of the Jurassic higher (Tithonien stage) and of the lower Crétacé (Berriasien stage). It consists of two parts completely distinct from a geological point of view.

The west of the commune, Richemont and part of Cherves, form a plate Calcaire notched by the valley of the Antenne dominated by the strong castles of old the Fief S and by the boroughs of Cherves and Richemont. This plate culminates with soixante-treize meters on Right Bank and with sixty meters on left bank and the brutal uneven one with the alluvial valley reaches forty meters at certain places.

Is the common one belongs to the “Netherlands” and its lowest part is located at five meters of altitude. This old tropical Lagune at the time of the Crétacé is a argilo-marly Jurassic ground zone. These marshes were drained at the end of the 15th century with drain of the “Fossé of Roy”. These argillaceous lowlands are relatively impermeable and easily flooded and the basement contains benches of Gypse and, in the intermediate layers of marnes, of many remainders the vertebrate ones (in particular of the Fossiles of Dinosaures, Crocodiliens and many teeth of Mammifères).

Hydrology

The commune is crossed by two affluents of the Charente on its Right Bank, the Antenne and the Fossé of Roy.

On Cherves-Richemont, the Antenne dug its valley in the calcareous plate and on its course were built several mills: the mill of Chazotte, the mill of small Houmade (on the IH Bellot), the mill of Prézier, the mill of Bricoine, the mill of Boussac and the mill of the low streets of Richemont, in ruin. They are closed down and do not have any more a function of regulation of the course of the river except the mill of Préziers, located on the principal course of the river, which took again its function of regulation since its various works (and in particular its roadway) were given in state. The Fossé of Roy crosses the Antenne shortly after its source by a very curious double siphon before crossing the “Netherlands” and in period of high waters of the Charente to flood the zone of the old pond which is used as zone of expansion of the river Charente. Certain grounds can remain flooded per annum several months. The “plug with the pond”, empellement destroyed in 1854, is marked more only by the name of gyratory near to the outlet of the Fossé of Roy in the Charente.

The ponds, in Orlut, old careers maintaining out of water, represent very important water reserves.

Occupation of the grounds

On its 3794 hectares, the commune comprises, on the declared agricultural surfaces, 760 hectares of wood (20%) and 2388 hectares of arable lands including 992 hectares of vines, 300 hectares of cereals, 615 hectares of meadows and 124 hectares of fallow (figures of 1994 which, for the fallow, decreased since).

The commune, entirely located in wine-growing zone Cognac of name “borderies”, is planted vines for obtaining white wines suited to the distillation and the manufacture of cognac. Even the floodplains are planted and besides it is those where the stocks resisted the Phylloxéra at the time of the local economic tragedy at the 19th century

The other arable lands are cultivated in Céréale S and in Fourrage for Bovin S. the Chanvre and the saffron are abandoned cultures.

The zone which was tropical lagoon with the Crétacé is a zone of careers of extraction of Gypse

Transportation routes

The commune is crossed by the N731 (Cognac with Saint-Hilaire-with-Villefranche then Saint-Jean-with Angély), D85 (Richemont with Matha by Cherves), D48 (Cognac with Bréville), D55 and D159 which make the connections borough with borough and a whole network of other departmental ways, communal and rural.

Some of these roads take again old layouts: D85 was the way Blaye - Ébéon which entered at the origin by the street of the Saint-Vivien Fountain where finds old the Relais of station and D159 recovers partly the Via Agrippa. Cherves is thus on a very old road junction and had a relay of station.

There was a service of passenger trains of the departmental control of the CFD which ensured a Cognac line Saint-Jean-in Angely. Starting from 1896 this line four daily return tickets in 1:50 with stops ensured Cognac-Saint-Jacques, Cherves, Saint-Sulpice. It was removed in 1949 and sees it railroad quickly was unused (there remains about it only the station at exit of Cherves, Matha direction). The second railroad on the commune was a private way which served the factory of Plâtre and carried by rail the production to the Cognac station. It ceased functioning in 1944 following a bombardment.

There exists a service of transport to the request by “Transcom”, service of the community of communes.

History

Heraldic

Prehistory and antiquity

The valley of the Antenne is registered like archaeological zone under settlement since the Neolithic . The occulted shelters under-rock and shelters are numerous. But the excavations of the shelter of Wood-Rock did not show a human presence whereas Saint-Césaire where was found the néanderthalienne “Pebble” is close.

The presence of a Nécropole with circular ditches in Franchie attests of a protohistoric occupation and the denomination of the “ferry” is sign of work of metals at the period of the Âge of iron. The commune did not keep of another trace of these times nor of the following times, of the settlement Santon or of the Gallo-Roman time except the Gallic ways, it via Agrippa with its terminal milliare in extreme cases western of the commune and some toponyms which are the memory of the Roman presence.

La Motte, still named Puy Finch, could be an ancient fort, a Celtic tomb of chief or a feudal Motte.

The Middle Ages

Then arrives one disturbed period marked by the successive invasions. The Visigoths found their kingdom of Aquitaine in 418, which ensures one century of peace. They were driven out by the Francs then Moors pushed back to them-even. After one calm period under Charlemagne, then within the kingdom of Aquitaine, the situation becomes again dubious and the Vikings go up Charente towards 850 and destroy Saintes and Angouleme without the Carolingians reacting. The Large ones of Aquitaine organize and constitute the duchy of Aquitaine which is allocated then to the counts de Poitiers but however the count of Angouleme keeps his stronghold.

Cherves is mentioned in 852 in an act of capitulary of Vierzon like legal chief town of district ( vicaria ).

After the passage of the Vikings, the commune was strengthened on all its heights. The strongholds were numerous, frames of feudal mounds or castle-forts of which those of Richemont, of Wood-Rock (fortified town on the IH Bellot attested as of Ve century), of Plumejeau and for certain scholars Coudret and Fontaulière.

The duchy of Aquitaine was the dowry of Aliénor of Aquitaine. By its second marriage with Henri Plantagenêt, future Henri II of England, the duchy passes from France to England. Because of revolts, he entrusts the duchy to his son, Richard Lion-hearted. Then it fights it after having imprisoned Aliénor. All Charente is devastated, of tens of castles flarings. The castle of Richemont was destroyed in 1179 by Richard Lion-hearted as Wood-Rock rebuilds at the 19th century.

The disorders last until the peace signed in 1258 by which Charente belongs to the grounds returned to king de France, Louis IX (Saint-Louis).

The excavations practiced in the undergrounds and the vestiges of the castellum of Richemont also show potteries of local arts and crafts dated between 1300 and 1500 but of the axes Neolithic S, the cut bones, the arrows, the squares of crossbow, the fibules, the fragments of glass, modest jewels.

Rebirth

At the beginning of the 16th century, the king, born in Cognac and whose field of hunting included/understood current “Martell wood” in the prolongation of the “large park” (current “park François Ier”), completes the work of drainage of the “Netherlands” started with Jean of Angouleme: the Fossé of Roy is hollowed out again and channeled on the majority of its course and immense a pond is created while placing the plug with the pond hundred meters before the confluence with Charente. It provided to each Friday fish for all the Cognac population. As this pond recovered the Roman way, it thus had more than four kilometers along the North-South axis, as one can check it on the Carte of Cassini. The plug was removed at the end of the 19th century and the pond disappeared, except during high waters of Charente.

In 1559, after the battle of Jarnac, Gaspard de Coligny rejoined the Protestant cavalry to organize its retirement on Saint-Jean-with Angély with the bridge on the Antenna and in 1651, the Folleville marshal seized the bridge which the slingers wanted to destroy. A Obelisk, in the middle of the bridge, commemorates these two events.

The castle of Plumejeau was plundered in 1569; it is undoubtedly at this time that was buried the Trésor of Cherves, discovered in 1896 and who represents the whole of the liturgical objects of a prosperous parish of the 13th century. Several of the eleven parts are decorated enamels Champlevé S of Limoges.

Revolution at our days

March 7th, 1787 the representatives of Cherves at the preliminary assembly of the General states which is held with the chapter house of Récollets de Cogac are JArnaud, André Pinaud and Jacques Naud and those of Richemont Antoine David and Nicolas Foucaud. It is into 1793 that are created the communes of Richemont and of Cherves, become Cherves de Cognac in 1956, and who joined in Cherves-Richemont in 1972.

In 1793, the drivers of Migron, under cover to fight villages too not very revolutionary, destroyed the village of Cross-of-Spade now disappeared and partly that from Champblanc.

At the 19th century, the sale of the cognac makes the richness of the area and the commune. This money explains the great number of home at that time built or renovated. The abrupt appearance of the Phylloxéra represents a local economic tragedy at the 19th century. Constructions are stopped and remain thus, the area takes a long time to be raised.

The First World War with 84 died to Cherves and 10 in Richemont will cause a fall of the population of the two communes, that in spite of the constant arrival with Orlut of migrants coming to work with the gypsum quarries. A a little particular Immigration because much were political refugees, Italian Anarchiste S, Socialists, Spanish Républicains.

During the Second world war, the maquis of Saint-Andrew was located in the wood of the commune of Saint-Andrew which goes until the Antenne on the commune of Richemont and among its first members refugees were Spanish.

Culture and inheritance

It is of a remarkable richness with five registered monuments and eighty one listed on the Base Mérimée, twenty archeological sites, two paleontological sites, a natural site and a remarkable Arbre.

Paleontological inheritance

The paleontological site of the careers of Champblanc made it possible to put at the day the fauna of a lagoon dating from the end of the Jurassic the beginning of the cretaceous, many species of tortoise S, Crocodiliens, Poisson S, of Reptile S, Dinosaure S and even of mammals, going back to some 130 million years, one period when the Fossile S, in particular of mammals, are rare. The public collection of the specimens is with the museum of Angouleme.

The excavations of the Abri-sous-roche of Wood-Rock show a maternity den of Hyène S dating from the Paléolithique and the remainders of Bovidae, équidés and ongulés unspecified of big size (Cheval, Bison).

Architectural heritage

Listed monuments and registered

The Saint-Vivien church of Cherves: of Romance style it was built before 1073 date of its donation to the Saint-Leger priory of Cognac. To the 12th century one added to the nave and the square bell-tower the current apse then the absidiole of the bell-tower. It is classified since March 29th, 1988.

On the place in front of the church, the base of medieval cross of the east registers since July 9th, 1932.

Castle-Chesnel builds 1610 with 1625, which is first variety of the French traditional style, is registered since May 24th, 1965. The castle and its dependences remained intact since their construction at the beginning of XVIIe. It is composed of a vast rectangular forecourt with three wings opening on the castle of square plan, at court central, and surrounded by dry ditches on four faces. The central building comprises two square bay levels with in the perron medium and carries. It is framed of two houses or square towers which precede the low wings by return. A parapet with let us merlons of imagination surmounted by balls the crown.

The crypt of the 11th century of the church Saint-Georges de Richemont is classified since September 29th, 1907, just like is classified natural site the rocky outcrop on which the whole of the site of Richemont is. The church was rebuilt in 1857. It is close to the vestiges of the old strong castle, the Château of Richemont, and forms with him and the old cemetery, the site of Richemont. The castle was rebuilt at the 17th century then modified at the time of its transformation into Séminaire. It is currently the seat of a rural Institut of education and orientation (IREO). The Pigeon date completion of the 16th century (it was built between 1574 and 1582). Castle rebuilds with XVIIe, it remains the gate, the tower and the main building.

Saint-Rémy is a house of Master built in 1698 with a rectangular main building flanked of two square houses which overhang it of a stage. Dimensioned garden, in the break of the cover, five attic windows on the central body and one on each house are arranged. These attic windows are flanked ailerons and carry pediments, the ones curved and surmounted Acrotère S, the other triangular ones. The main door is framed ionic pilasters . The frontage and the roof are registered since June 25th, 1979.

The Logis of Boussac was built at the 17th century but the existence of the mill is known as of 1427. In 1786, authorization is given to build with the back a mill with paper which functioned until 1831 then was transformed into mill with flour.

Other monuments

The Roman way Agrippa with milliary Borne in edge of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-of-Cognac crosses the commune of is in west to the bridge of Saint-Sulpice.

Bourgneuf which is already attested at the end of the One hundred year old war, is composed of two wings at right angles which can date from the 16th century whose junction comprises a polygonal turret containing a spiral staircase serving an underlined square upper floor of four profiled corbellings, the whole of the 16th century.

Wood-rock: the current home dominates the ruins of the foundations, a ditch and some arched rooms remainder of the fortified town.

There does not remain any significant building of the priory of Gandourie, the commandery Midsummer's Day (or Saint-Andrew) of Richemont or of the vault St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre d' Orlut. But in Orlut, the close ground conceals an old cemetery with its Sarcophage S of stone.

Three others Manoir S deserve to be mentioned: small Coudret on the one hand, Coudret and Fontaulière on the other hand, which are strongholds mentioned before the 16th century but whose buildings even if they comprise old parts were altered much at the 19th century.

The mills on the Antenna: the mill of Chazotte and the mill of Prézier both transformed into lodgings, the mill of small Houmade (on the IH Bellot), the mill of Bricoine, the mill of Boussac, the mill of the low streets of Richemont.

The mill of Préziers which was with two wheels (thus black mill and white mill) belongs to the community of communes of Cognac. It has a roadway, works very remarkable, and as it is located on the principal course of the river, it has a function of regulation of the river.

On the Mérimée basis are also mentioned the Gare, the three schools of Cherves, Richemont (1886) and Orlut (built between 1899 and 1903), of the crosses of way and cemetery and many monuments of the old cemetery of the site of Richemont and the Richemont cemeteries and Cherves which goes back to 1876 after transfer and transformation of the old cemetery into public place, the place of the church. The “stone of deaths” located in edge of road at the entry of Cherves, at the end of the coast while coming from Orlut, made it possible to pose the coffin so that the carriers rest before taking again their walk to the church.

The small rural inheritance consists of farms of which a score dating from 18th and the 19th century are listed on the Mérimée base like six houses and the baker's oven of Palain. But also of laundrettes, fountains, well and porches Charente-native which, at the 19th century, were the mark of the financial and social success. They comprise a porch and a riding door and belong to an enclosure or were built in a purely decorative way. Various types of sculptures are found, here most characteristic.

The remarkable mammals are the Loutre S and the minks of Europe, this last is more present only in seven French departments. Many measurements are installation for its protection as the trapping of the Ragondin S carried out with traps provided with a small opening which makes it possible the minks of Europe to escape.

Are also protected the very many Chauve-souris of which much winters on the spot or very close, in the old careers from Saint-Sulpice: Large Barbastelle, murine, large and small Rhinolophe, vespertilion with indented ears and of Berchstein ( Myotis ) and of very many Pipistrelle S.

The Batraciens were not listed yet but there is presence of two species of tree frog S Frenchwomen, Crapaud S and salamander S.

The fish are varied, of which Brochet, Truite, carp, Anguille but also chub, Lamproie To plane and river lamprey in the Antenne) which, in addition to salmonidés, rich is cyprinidés of running water (Chevesne, Barbeau, pin). The ditches were colonized by the American crayfish S.

In addition to many Insect S currents, one finds the Rosalie of the Alps and several species of Libellule S.

The birds are fewer than they were it but certain species are still present: Sparrow, coal Titmouse, cuckoo, black and white, Swallow and others reappears as the Huppe S. the Turkish turtle-doves multiplied.

To the Duck S, Héron S and hens of usual water of the ponds birds are added which rest there in the course of migration, which comes to be put at the shelter at the time of storms or which winter. Thus hundreds of crested plovers are accustomed.

The raptors returned since they are protected, especially from very numerous milans black and from the adjustable nozzles.

Among the night birds Tawny owl and Barn owl is very present.

Visits and excursions naturalists

The academy of the Charente-native vineyard with at the entry a holm oak of more than four centuries, classified remarkable tree. The academy seeks the old species, the plants and practical of the microphone-wine makings to test them. The walker notes the diversity of the foliages and the bunches which has contrasted with the increasing standardization of the vineyard for fifty years. It is an alive museum of the vineyard.

Hiking roads:

GR. 4;
circuit of the drivers, 12 km, which passes by the mill of Préziers and botanical Castle-Chesnel
path around the hillock of the castle of Richemont with departure to the carpark of the IREO in front of the pigeon one.

Cultural heritage

For the crypt and the small museum of Richemont a visit with guide is possible the summer.

Each summer, the paleontologists based at the school of Orlut present the progress report of their research and their new discoveries.

Each year, several spectacles of theater and music are programmed with the municipal hall, the Saint-Vivien church, in the field of the presbytery and the vault of Richemont.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Monnet: his/her grandfather lived with the locality the Spine and Jean Monnet tells that with him it went to fishing on the Antenne and that in his company it took taste with the long walks with foot.
Firino-Martell Family: they marked the saving in all the area and the life of the commune of Cherves de Cognac.
Hennessy Family: they had an equivalent economic impact and took part in the life of the commune of Richemont.

Jean Hennessy (1867-1944): appointed elected official of Charente in 1924, Minister for the Agriculture from November 11th, 1928 to February 21st, 1930. Beaten then elected appointed the Alpes-Maritimes in 1936, it belongs to the 80 members of Parliament who refuse the vote of the full powerss to the Marshal Pétain.
Mrs Maurice Hennessy: resistant, mayor of Richemont.

Paul Garandeau: resisting, commander of Cognac place to the Release, mayor of Cherves de Cognac.

Gastronomy

Of course, the pineau and the cognac and on Cherves-Richemont several producers make direct sales.

All Charente-native traditional dishes: the cricket, the Stew of ox, the roll and the “sauce of worse” or at the time of the “kitchen of goret”, the small Fèves eaten with crunches with salt, the baraganes or leeks of vine, the Galette S Charente-native of which each one has a family receipt.

Economy

Industry began with the gypsum quarries whose presence allowed creation in 1878 of the Daunizeau chalk pit. This very important industry had its railway line connecting it to the station Cognac until in 1944. It became the Garandeau group which, in 1987, employed in this unit fifty worker. Placoplâtre created in 1977 a manufacturing plant of plasterboards which employed on this unit 200 paid in 1988.

Agriculture is mainly represented by the Viticulture in area delimited of the borderies on a zone which is cultivated in vine constantly since at least Roman colonization. It is also the presence of owners distillers who make direct sales of Pineau of Charentes and cognac.

The commune shelters many distillings and wine storehouses as well as the very vast wine storehouses of storage of the Hennessy establishments and the Martell establishments which had to leave the enclosure of the town of Cognac for safety reasons. There are two lodgings, the mill of Preziers and the mill of Chazotte, the rooms of hosts and the home of Boussac like relay-castle.

The fair the 28 of each month was removed in 1922, except that of May 28th which was accompanied by a fun fair with theater and ball and perduré until in 1970.

In the absence of market or of fair, the trade are present in spite of the existence of supermarkets at Cognac and in its neighborhoods: mini-market, bakeries, butchery, bar-restaurant with Cherves and Orlut. The common one has also its craftsmen: hairdresser, mechanic, masons, roofers, landscape designer, etc

The official statistics of 1994 (but there no was notable evolution since) count 114 companies including 46 agricultural, four agro-alimentary, seven industrial, seven of the BTP and 17 trade. On these 114 companies, 67 do not have an employee.

To live in Cherves-Richemont

Employment

The statistics of 1990 give: 1071 credits on the communes, the employee jobs being on the commune for 374 of them, on the town of Cognac for 463 others.

It are for 11,1% in the Agriculture, 34,6% in the Industrie and 51,3% in the tertiary . They are divided into 5,1% of Agriculteur S, 4,7% of Artisan S, 7,7% of frameworks, 21,8% of intermediate occupations, 20,9% of Employé S and 39,7% of Ouvrier S.

There was 745 employment on the commune, 160 in the Agriculture, 324 in the Industrie, 36 in BTP, 156 in the commercial services and 84 in the noncommercial services.

Sport

Riding school with track of drive which depends on the community on communes
Stade and football club
Courts of tennis and club of tennis
Terrain of game of bowls and club
Pêche with the federation of fishing on the Antenne, the “Trout chamblancaise” on a pond and fishing with the fly on another pond
Chasse
Tir with the pigeon
Gymnastique volunteer
Twirling-stick

Cultural life and associative

ANLP (Natural Antenna Leisure Inheritance)
Guy of O the Netherlands: group patoisant, (traditional dances and songs)
Amis of Richemont
Committee festivals of Orlut which organizes the festivity of Orlut at Easter and the bit of aillet of the 1e May
Club of the third age
Association of the war veterans
Joint committee

All organize various associative or parochial festivals, lottos, banquets, animations, etc Of joint animations for Telethon and animations to the mill of Prezier for the days of the inheritance and the mills in June and the market of Christmas mid-December. The municipality coordinates and organizes the picnic and the fireworks of July 14th.

Places of worships

Catholic worship with the Saint-Vivien church and pastoral activity by the Midsummer's Day community.

Public services

Town hall of Cherves and city hall annex of Richemont
Post office
Water by drillings of the pit of Thidet on the commune of Crook for the Netherlands and that of the Island Hammer for the plate with interconnection
Cleansing for the boroughs of Cherves and Orlut and all the new allotments
ADSL on Palain and Masseville for which a solution is required
Social security and social worker: weekly permanences in the buildings of the town hall

Administration

Administrative status

The commune of Cherves-Richemont is a commune of Charente in the area Poitou-Charentes. It belongs to the Canton of Cognac-North which, with the Canton of Cognac-South, composes the Communauté of communes of Cognac. This one belongs to the Pays West-Charente Pays of the cognac (which is not recut with the legislative district, the commune belonging to the Second district of Charente).

The Municipal council seat with the town hall which is in the center of the borough of Cherves, Richemont having a city hall annex. The municipal election is nominal, with sixteen elected officials on Cherves and three elected officials on Richemont. Among these nineteen advisers, currently all elected on a list of communal interests, are elected a mayor, a deputy mayor and five assistant. The number of elected officials is re-examined with each census and it was the twenty-three one (nineteen in Cherves and four in Richemont) until 2001, election where it was decreased, population having passed just in lower part of: 2500.

It there three polling stations with Cherves (town hall, sociocultural center and Orlut) and one with the town hall of Richemont. In 2007, there is: 1945 registered voters and the results of the last elections are without difference marked with the national: with presidential: 1594 expressed with 812 for Nicolas Sarkozy and 782 for Ségolène Royal but with legislative, for: 1233 voters, 614 votes with Marie-Line Reynaud, PS who was elected, and only 577 votes with Jerome Mouhot, UMP. On the commune, Orlut votes traditionally much on the left than Richemont and the borough of Cherves.

The Sous-préfecture is with Cognac, just like the Chamber of commerce, the Chambre of agriculture, BNIC (Interprofessional National office of the Cognac), the bankruptcy court, the Magistrates' court as well as the seat of the Communauté of communes of Cognac placed in the old Monnet buildings. The commune of Cherves-Richemont has there four delegated elected by the municipal council in his center.

The SIVOM, intercommunity association, kept competences of maintenance of the Antenna, of the ditches of the Netherlands, the former trade union of rolling, water and the cleansing. The SVDM, departmental trade union, took again to him competence household waste (collection and treatment). A SIVU was created for the school restoration with construction of a central kitchen in center borough of Cherves.

List former mayors

Cherves-Richemont

Richemont

List mayors of Richemont before are association with Cherves-of-Cognac in 1972.

Cherves de Cognac

List mayors of Cherves-of-Cognac before are association with Richemont in 1972.

Taxation and budget

The tax pressure on the private individuals of the commune is moderate: the Taxe of dwelling rose in 2006 with 7,15% for which it is necessary to add the departmental rate of 7,55%. The Real estate tax rises as for it to 12,20% the same year on the properties built (more 16,09% for the department and 3,32% for the area) and 38,49% on the undeveloped properties (more 33,13% for the department, 8,86% for the area and 14,30% for the room of agriculture).

The municipal Budget of operation of 2006 amounted to 2150589.79 [[euro]] S of expenditure for 2324161.72 euros of receipts, that is to say a surplus of operation of 173571.93 euros.

The principal expenditures are the personnel expenditure (44,61%), the loads of current management (22,25%) and the other loads of current management (31,44%)

The municipal Budget of investment of 2006 rose with 438367.49 euros of expenditure for 610018.68 euros of receipts, that is to say a surplus of 171643.19 euros but only 45, % of the programmed capital expenditures were carried out (delay of various building sites).

Demography

Cherves

In 1791 it is noted to have 1074 inhabitants.

Richemont

Cherves-Richemont

In 1973, the population of Richemont was added to that of Cherves. In 1990, the light decrease of the population is due to a negative Migratory balance (- 160) whereas the balance of the births (+ 1,5%) and deaths (- 0,94%) remains positive. The double accounts give 102 inhabitants moreover, especially students entered in their university town, which contributes with the return to the country at the time of the retirement to the light ageing of the population which remains however much lower than that of the remainder of the department which has only 22,32% from 0 to 19 years but 26,55% 60 years and more.

The intermediate size of the households was of 2,9 people, households which, in 1990, lived in 873 main homes (there was also 24 second home). On the 72 residences then vacant, some are again occupied (connection EDF restored). And during these fifteen years, of new residences were built, the majority in Lotissement S controlled by the municipality and last source INSEE gives: 1032 residences on the commune, an increase in 63 residences is 6,5%.

The statistics on the level of studies show 33% primary education level, especially at the most 60 years (21,2%), 34,9% level college, 12,8% level college and 11,3% (including only 1% of more than 60 years) having a level of higher learning. But these statistics are skewed in two ways: the 17 to 25 years student, with the double accounts, are entered in their university town and they are almost hundred for Cherves-Richemont on studied figuring. In addition, the agricultural studies, the CAPE and BP are entered on their level only at the stage of the vat pro or the BTS.

Sociocultural equipment

Crib and halt-nursery the “Titous”
Library-media library with access Internet
Three municipal halls: the municipal big room of Cherves built in 1923, the municipal hall of Orlut, both comprising a kitchen, and the room multifunction located in the enclosure of the stage
the old public school of Richemont is at the disposal of associations
the old public school of Orlut is currently reserved to the paleontologists for the excavation campaigns
Two allotments of houses rental HLM and of the apartments of the commune with very moderate rent (schools, old gendarmerie, etc)
the ADMR ensures the assistance to residence and there exists a parcel delivery of meal

Teaching

The department raises of the academy of Poitiers, the colleges are with Cognac as well as the college Jean Monnet, the university centres are with Poitiers, La Rochelle and Angouleme.

On the commune are present, with canteen and pre and continuation nurseries, a nursery school public of three classes with 59 registered voters for the re-entry 2007 and a public elementary school of six classes (an additional class was opened with the re-entry 2006) with 142 registered voters for the re-entry 2007.

There are also a private school, nursery school and primary education, the Holy-Eustelle school, and an establishment of agricultural training, the IREO of Richemont. Its formations are in alternation, mainly agricultural (CAPE, Bac Pro CGEA, work landscape and services with the people in rural environment, BTS vine growing-enology, etc).

Health

The hospital and the private clinic are with Cognac and to Châteaubernard and offers it care on the commune is complete: medical group with two general doctors, dental surgeon, kinesitherapist, cabinets of nurses, pharmacy.

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