Coye-the-Forest

Coye-the-Forest (to pronounce…) is a common French, located in the department of the Oise and the area Picardy.

The inhabitants are called Coyens.

Geography

Brood in the middle of the forest of Chantilly, it enjoys a situation privileged to 35 km in the north of Paris. It is served by the terminus of the line D of the RER, '' Orry-the-City - Coye ''.

Coye-the-forest belongs to the Community of Communes of the Cantilienne Surface (CCAC) and the Regional natural park Oise-Country of France.

The village knew to preserve its identity, although the proximity of Paris and the extension of the Île-de-France area since about thirty years, in particular starting from Roissy, deeply modified the landscape and sociology of it. Its population passed from 1.800 inhabitants in 1955 to 3743 inhabitants to the census of 1999. This evolution was managed so that Coye the Forest remains a village where it makes good things in life.

The agglomeration presents today still related aspects to its rural origins. The center of the borough is composed of old streets bordered of houses of country to architecture characteristic of the Picardy area.

Near the place of the Town hall and church an old laundrette recently renovated and a small stone bridge are built in the middle of the 19th century to cross Thève, river with clear water resulting from the ponds of Commelle located at one kilometer approximately upstream of the village. With the accesses of these ponds, whose pedestrian path makes the turn (five kilometers), rises the castle of the White Queen, old relay of hunting.

History

45 million years ago, the site of Coye-the-Forest was bathed by the sea Thanétien, of which there remains the Poudingue of Coye, mixes of sand and rollers of flints solidified by water.

According to the archaeological lucky finds, it is probable that the area was occupied by the man as of the Neolithic era, but the first hard copy of Coye goes back only to 797: It is about the donation of properties belonging to the count Theudaldix, vassal of Charlemagne, with the abbey of Saint-Denis.

It is necessary to wait until 1138 to find a second document, relating to the attribution of incomes of the church of Coye, with the priory of Saint Nicolas of Acy.

, Coye is a dependence of the royal castle of Lamorlaye, then of Bouteiller de Senlis. The seigniory is very modest; the poor ground comprises as many moors, heathers and ferns that trees skinny fellows too often cut and little cultivable grounds.

Under Louis XIV, Coye had as a lord a man in the middle of monarchy: the " Secretary of the main". This one had as a function to imitate the royal writing perfectly, signing even “Louis”, if it were needed. All Saints' day Rose (1611-1701), lord of Coye, exerted this function of March 1661 in December 1678 (what prohibits to identify, with a total safety, the true author of the manuscripts allotted to Louis XIV). “To have the feather, writing Saint-Simon in his Memories, it is to imitate so exactly the writing of the king whom it cannot be distinguished from that the feather counterfeited, and to write in this kind all the letters that the king must or want write with its hand, and however does not want any to take the trouble. It is possible to make speak a large king with more dignity than made Rose, neither more suitably with each one, nor on each matter, than the letters which it wrote thus, and which the king very signed with his hand”.

After the death of All Saints' day Rose, marquis de Coye, Henri-Jules de Bourbon, lord of Chantilly, acquires the seigniory of Coye in 1701. To occupy the Coyenne population, particularly poor, and to prevent that it does not spend its time to braconner in its forests, he makes install industrial companies in the castle; impression of fabric, then manufactures charts and cotton-spinning which will count to 200 workmen at the beginning of the 19th century.

The 19th century will be the century of gold of Coyennes industries: after the cotton-spinning a factory of impression will be built on fabric (to 300 workmen). The creation of the margotins will occupy as from 1850 a hundred workmen just as the manufacture of the bonds and cords in basts.

A manufacturing plant of objects out of polished steel will cease its activity in 1914, putting an end to the industrial activity of Coye.

The Coyenne population will increase regularly until 1914 (1 580 hbts). After a light fall in 1946 (1 513 hbts), it will double in 30 years (3 048 hbts in 1975).

The name of Coye is unique in France. One notes successively following names:

Caugia (799), Coie (1138), Couaye (1548), Coye (1667), Coye-the-Forest (1929)

Administration

Demography

Monuments and curiosities

; The church: Its origin goes back to the 12th century. It was rebuilt in 1875 in Gothic style in the fields of the Abbaye of Royaumont.

Seul the bottom of the bell-tower is 16th century. The upper floor and the bell-tower are of 1875.

; The bridge on the Thève and the old laundrette: With its accesses drew up itself, at last century, a factory employing to 200 workmen with most extremely of his activity. One manufactured there at the origin of the charts to play, then it was transformed into silk spinning mill before becoming a polished steel factory. Nothing any more remains about it today.

; Pond of the Hanging-post: One also finds there an old laundrette going back to 1841. In the park of the castle, when Thève arrives in the pond, one can see the pretty bridge Pinel (1859) of the name of the manufacturer of the old viaduct.

; Ponds of Commelle, Mandrou bridge: While going up towards the ponds of Comelle, one finds the Mandrou bridge on Thève (fine of the 18th century), as well as the new viaduct of the frame, railroad of 1980 to 1984 to replace the viaduct built by engineer Pinel between 1856 and 1859. This old viaduct was destroyed on December 12th, 1985.

; Castle of the white Queen: At the edge of the pond of the Cabin (ponds of Comelle) rises the castle of the White Queen, old cabin of loggers transformed into water mill in 1765. In 1826, the mill was removed, the repaired cabin, and one gave him the seal of a castle of the Middle Ages, with ogival doors and windows, crenelated towers. The three knights who decorate the frontage were added in 1846 by the duke of Aumale, the last wire of Louis-Philippe and owner of the field of Chantilly.

; The forest of Coye: It is part of the forest of Chantilly (6 310 ha): One calls commonly “forest of Coye” the solid mass which includes, in the south of the ponds of Commelle, as well the wood of Orry in the east as the wood of Luzarches and Chaumontel in the south and those of Bonnet in the west. Several gasolines of trees are noticed: oak, beech, coniferous tree and lime.

the “path botanical of Champoleux” is intended to the amateurs of hiking. The forest is as well adapted to the practice of equestrian tourism and the walk with horse.

; The Conglomerate of Coye: Blocks remain street of Hérivaux, before the arrival at the stage, on the line. When the sea Thanétien was not withdrawn, some 60 million year ago, sand was transformed into sandstone, while taking in its mass of the flint rollers, to form blocks of Conglomerate. It is about a single geological curiosity in the Paris region.

; A mysterious site: On the basis of Coye-the-Forest (chart IGN 404), it is possible to reach with feet in 20 minutes, by the post of the Ear-phones and the road of Charmée, a whole of raised stones of which one, according to the Leullier abbot, priest of Coye in 1900, would have been used as optical telegraph at the time prehistoric.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Oise

External bonds

Coye-the-Forest on the site of the national geographical Institute
Coye-the-Forest on the site of INSEE
Coye-the-Forest on the site of Quid
Localization of Coye-the-Forest on a chart of France and communes bordering

Site of the PNR Oise country of France

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