Cormelles-the-Royal

Cormelles-the-Royal is a common French, located in the department of the Calvados and the area Basse-Normandie.

Geography

Cormelles-the-royal is located in the southern suburbs of Caen at 34 km of the city

History

The reference " le-Royal" was added in 1969; it is an allusion to privileges granted to the inhabitants of this locality by the kings of France.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Town hall

The services of the Mairie are installed in the old presbytery of the parish. The building, with the single circuit lines, was built out of stone of Caen in 1738 by the abbot Pierre Manchon of Gournay, with its expenses, on a ground pertaining to the cure of Cormelles. The interior stone staircase is equipped with a superb wrought iron slope of the 18th century decorated with initial with the abbot. Since 1794, the catholic worship being removed in the parish of Cormelles, the Presbytère is rented by the commune with cormelloises families which share the dwelling there. One of the parts acts of town hall and room of municipal council. From 1802 to 1826, the parish of Yews on which Cormelles depends, takes possession of the presbytery and the church. After 1945, disaster victims families are rehoused there. It is into 1970 that the town hall installs its services definitively there. The development of the commune involves, in 1999, the need for an enlarging of the offices. A new built wing side street of the Schools, out of stone of Caen, is harmonized perfectly with the old presbytery. In front of this frontage, the very flowered gardens make a pleasant public space of it.

The church of Cormelles the Royal one

Placed under the invocation of holy Martin, the church located in the middle of the borough, does not present particular architectural interest. Built out of calcareous stone during 16th and 17th centuries on the site of a Vault, it undergoes the pangs of the history and time. The current tower, in the shape of bell was built in 1776 following the earthquake which shook the square tower. Damaged following the bombardments of 1944, the church was restored thereafter. The stained glasses were posed in 1958. The wrought iron grid of the chorus is the work of Cormellois which also made gift of the way of cross out of wooden.

Personalities related to the commune

Gilles Andre of Castling

Historiographer, heraldist of Louis XIV and the house of Harcourt, knight about Saint-Michel, author of the history of the house of Harcourt, it was born in Cormelles in 1597 (1598). He is member of the academy of the beautiful letters of Caen.

Mr. de Bonnaire

Famous for the industry of the blondes (silk laces), he died in 1832. He was mayor of Cormelles and a benefactor for the commune. The fashion having made prevail the use of silk laces, Mr. Bonnaire and some other manufacturers of the district of Caen, improved and enriched this lace which was required in all Europe.

Samuel Bochart

Born in 1599 with Rouen, wire of Pasteur of Caen, it makes its studies with Paris, Sedan, Saumur, Oxford and Leyde. It is named in Caen on a vacancy of Pasteur in June 1624. In 1652,1653, it is invited by the Christine queen of Sweden to develop reformed theology. In 1653, it is named with the head of the academy of Arts and Belles Letters of Caen whose seat is the hotel of the Large Horse (Hotel of Escoville). Writer, we find among its works: Polemic with the Jesuit Minnow (1628), crowned Geography (1628), Héroïcon (1663). Married to Suzanne de Béversluys, it had a Esther girl who married on November 14th, 1649 Pierre Lesueur, sior of Cormelles and Colleville, Conseiller at the Parliament of Normandy. He died on May 16th, 1667 during a discussion of the academy of Arts and Belles Letters. Being Protestant, it could not be buried in the cemetery of the commune, it was it thus at his son-in-law, Pierre Lesueur " In a thicket (which bore the wood name to the Protestants), now transformed into pasture, partly limited towards north by the remainders of the manor seigneurial of Cormelles and immediately uniting delle called the field of the house, the body being buried to 2,60 m of the wall which separates this pasture from the cemetery and the gardens of Mr. Marguere to 10 m towards the south of the acute angle formed by the meeting of this wall with that of the cemetery communal."

Teaching

There are two nursery schools:

the nursery school of the Greens Meadows
the nursery school of Drakkars

They have each one small, an average and a great section divided into two or three classes.

There are two elementary schools:

the elementary school of the Valley
the elementary school of Drakkars

for the classes of the CP, CE1, CE2, CM1 and CM2.

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Cormelles-the-Royal official site
on the site of Cormelles-the-Royal INSEE
on the site of Quid
Localization of Cormelles-the-Royal on a chart of France and communes bordering

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