Cléry-Saint-Andre

Heraldic

Of azure sown of flowers of gold lily, in Notre Dame de Carnation, equipped with mouths and azure, holding the Jesus Child, also crowned gold, issuant of a money cloud.

Geography

Small town on left bank and to 3 km of the Loire, 15 km in the south-west of Orleans in the Department of Loiret. The Borough is spread out along D 951. The Notre Dame Basilica is the culminating point. The relief is that of a plain which gradually descends towards the Loire, crossed by the river Ardoux and protected from believed by a lifting.

place Chief of the canton also gathering Mareau with the meadows, Dry, Mézières lez Clery (all three to 3-4 km) and Jouy Potter (10 km).
Meung on the Loire east with 5km of road.

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Administration

Services

Education:

College Jacques de Tristan (public)
Elementary school and maternal Notre-Dame (private)
Elementary school and nursery school of Bergerêts (public)

Post office
Doctor's office
Fire station
Gendarmerie
Pharmacy
Driving school: Led Cléry
Tourist bureau
Banks/insurances: Savings bank, Groupama, Agricultural credit
Insurances: Thélem
notarial Office
estate Agency Arthur Cléry
Garages: Rocked and Cléry Cars
Hairdressing salons: Montigny, Guénon, Pascale Living room, Créa' tiff.
Déchetterie Inter-commune of the Canton
public Transport:

Cars Ulys (Rapids of the Loire Valley) in the Orleans direction centers - Saint Laurent Nouan and for school use in the directions Mareau-Beaugency, Meung-Mareau and Messas-Orleans-the-Source.

Trade and Undertaken

Butchery
Pork-butchery
2 Bakeries
Grocer of Saint-Andrew
Bar: The beautiful Image
Bar: cheerfulness
Florist: Workshop of Helene
Antique dealer: Xavier Josquin
Restaurants: Restaurant Notre Dame and Villa of Border
Supermarchés: Ecomarché and Logimarché
Undertaken pharmaceutical: CS Dermatology
Industries:

Manufacture of labels: Cin' étiq
Sheet-iron works, spare parts: Daudin
Transport: Gidoin transport
industrial Pork-butchery: Saltings of the Loire Valley
Cover: Mothu brothers

Sport and culture

Rooms of: Judo, Dance, Badminton, Data-processing
Grounds of: Football, Skate-board, Balls, Motor bike Cross-country race (Private)
Footpaths, fishes in Ardoux
Bibliothèque
Council school of music
Showroom to " beautiful Autruche"
Gone (at the beginning of September)
Fair with apples (at the end of October) (since 1986)
Son et lumi2ere display (at the end of July): the first spectacle had as a subject Louis XI, the second Dunois and the current one relates to Jeanne d' Arc.
a pilgrimage takes place each year, organized by the catholic Youth movement of France with a large-mass in the basilica of Cléry.

Demography

Inheritance

Basilica , built of XIVe century (bell-tower) in the middle of XVe century (principal body), it is of Gothic style. It contains the tomb of Louis XI (in particular its Crâne) whose original was destroyed and replaced in 1622 by the sculptor Michel Bourdin.

History

Antiquity:

Trace of a very old cemetery enters the secondary road and the hamlet of St Andre which a medieval cemetery with succeeded.
St Andre placed close to the old Roman way called “Rémy way” (or Romain way)
In edge of the Sologne on the Hillock of the Elected officials of the traces Gallo-Romans and Barbares was discovered
Close to the field of the Fish pond of the remains of dwelling Romans and the parts going back to Claude, Trajan, Néron and Adrien (Ier and IIe century)

First mention in a text: in the middle of the Life century: the bishop of Orleans, Marc, being in “Clariacus vicus” wished to meet the hermit Saint Liphart residing at Meung-sur-Loire. There is not thus a doubt that “Clariacus” indicates Cléry. The term “Vicus” indicated a group of dwellings. One can suppose that Cléry of the time was a small village.
Second mention, that of St Andre on June 27th 651: in his will, the Leodebold abbot bequeathed his villa “Camberon” being to “vel Ucellus vico”. However this name is related to St Andre as proves it a text of the Abbey of Beaugency in May 1213: “of decimated sancti Andree (=St André) of Usselo juxta Clariacum (Cléry)”

With 12th and 13th centuries the name of certain places appears:

5 Chanoines founds a dwelling in a locality which, in their reference, is called “the Good Men”.
the castle of Estrepoix was founded with the locality of Trépoix (belonging today to Mareau-with-Meadows) and belonged to the ecclesiastics. The castle was abandoned at the end of the Middle Ages and there remains today only one section of wall close to a tumulus.
the castle of the Room , which known several lords, was destroyed by English. There remain nothing any more but the ditches today.
Malandrerie, founded at the 13th century was a Léproserie placed close to Trépoix on the Roman way. There remains about it today only one barn of farm.
At that time Cléry was attached to the royal field, which influenced the fate of the city in the centuries suivanst. Saint Louis visited Cléry in 1258. Its reign is representative one pious period which was going to lead to discovered of a statue.

the statue and Cléry:

Towards 1280, a statue out of wooden of virgin to the child, of 1 m height, was discovered in a bush. Miraculous capacities quickly were allotted to him and it was placed in a close vault, but in front of the surge of pilgrims, one had to build a new vault with the current site of the basilica and around which the houses of a first borough were built.
Beginning 14th century, Philippe Beautiful the was interested in the Virgin and made him build a church and several houses always present today.
In 1428 before the head office of Orleans, English Salisbury passing by Cléry made plunder the richnesses of the church accumulated up to that point and made destroy the church. The statue was left there miraculeusement. Jeanne d' Arc passed by twice to Cléry: the first to counter the head office of Orleans and the second to release Meung-sur-Loire. It had to fight besides 120 English soldiers between Beaugency and Cléry.

the church Notre-Dame de Cléry is mentioned in the childish comptime the chime of Vendôme.

the devastations caused with the borough involved a turning into a desert of this one and Cléry could take again its rise only in the years 1460. At that time Louis XI, who accepted the virtues of the Virgin, transformed this church into ruin, in Gothic basilica of style blazing which became hapelle royal. With its death it was made there bury with his wife. The tale Dunois, comrade in arms of Jeanne d' Arc, required to be made bury with his wife in the basilica in thanks of the benefits of the Virgin.

But 100 years later the wars of religion will carry out the huguenots to devastate the Basilica and the virgin was this destroyed time. One replaced it at the beginning of the 17th century by a counterpart carried out starting from descriptions of the monks. Whereas the rebuilding of the basilica required many years, one harnessed oneself with the construction of a fortification of 1.5 km circumference and 8 m height to protect the borough from the attacks. The doors of Blois and Orleans were built. However the sums of money missed and construction remained fragile and unfinished. The oldest drawing of the basilica in 1699 presents well the general aspect of Cléry with a basilica having an arrow and broadside of a fortification both absent today (the arrow withdrawn since 1710 was placed on the bell-tower, only element remaining of the old church of the 13th century).

At the 17th century the castles of the Swivel and Mardereau were built.

In 1744 the secondary road having to replace the “Rémy way” was built. It passed by the center of the borough and was initially called “new Rémy way”.

With the French revolution, the municipality of Cléry avoided the sale and the destruction of the basilica. However much of elements were sold or destroyed like the statue of Louis XI. The Tomb of Louis XI was profaned by a revolutionist of Beaugency.

the 19th century saw many archaeological excavations, as well as the restoration of the Basilica under Napoleon III. It as should be noted as the projects of restoration, not carried out, of Right Lisch into 1868 envisaged to rebuild the arrow and to paint the interior of the basilica.

Ensuite one enumerates some degradations made in 1871 by Prussians, the flight of the treasure of the basilica on July 26th 1926 and the destruction by a allied bomb of a dwelling, street Ephrem Lecoeur, during the Second world war.
a Railroad passed at the beginning of the XXe century beside Cléry and until the Seventies, one can say that Cléry summarized with 2 lines of houses on both sides the secondary road, with the grouping of houses with St-Andre, houses placed along some other roads like with a series of dispersed farms.

the recent development was characterized by the successive construction of approximately 6 allotments more or less spaced on the parts is and southern is city as well as a great number of particular houses.

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