Coal-scuttles (Saône-et-Loire)

Geography

One listed traces of activities of the time of Gallic on the site now baptized Charbonnières.Environ 400 masons stones were established along the mouge, river crossing the commune and the tools found by Georges Renoud-hook are visible with the museum of the ursules has mâcon. This village draws its producing name of an important activity from the coalmen of the charcoal in the wood of the current commune of coal-scuttles. Traces of the grinding stones are still visible today. The village whose center (administrative) was moved towards 1830 of its origin, today the hamlet renauds, towards the 3 hamlets the strapping men, the pussies, michauds. It was built there Mairie, church and school about 1850. Coal-scuttles can be ennorgueillir to have oldest, if not one of the oldest vaults Romance of Burgundy. dated during its restoration of 960, of the abbey of Cluny Beside the vault today private property is shortly after the construction was built about 1450 a farm strengthened vraisseblablement " barn of Cluny" , at the same time agricultural domain and wine field thereafter Aujourd'hui a part shelters rooms of hosts. At the time of the French revolution of 1789, the insurrectionists coming from igé put fire at the vault and tried to burn the farm of the renauds. the peasants of lépoque, sharecroppers of the Carmelite nuns of Mâcon, defended it so well that on, the farm of the renauds was the July 27th, 1789 not destroyed. The district of the pussies draws its name from the exploitation of iron mines with 16th and 17th century.

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See too

Common of Saône-et-Loire

External bonds

Coal on the site of the National Geographical Institute
Coal on the site of INSEE
Coal on the site of Quid
Localization of Coal-scuttles on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Coal-scuttles on Mapquest

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