Crécy-the-Vault

Crécy-the-Vault is a common French located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Créçois.

Geography

The commune is served by two stations of the Transilien Paris-Is:

'' Villiers - Montbarbin ''
'' Crécy-the-Vault ''

Localities and variations

Crécy Borough
Montbarbin
Serbonne
the Vault
Libernon
Mongrolle
Ferolles
Montaudier

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are: Bouleurs, Villiers-on-Morin, Couilly-Bridge-with-Ladies, Voulangis, Guérard, Maisoncelles-in-Brie

History

The commune of Crécy-the-Vault was born on October 1st 1972 from fusion between Crécy-in-Brie and the common neighbor of It Vault-on-Crécy.

Crécy would have been inhabited as of the Neolithic time but the name of Crécy appears only at the 7th century under various names: Criscecus, Crideciacavico, Creciacum.

It is from 9th and 10th centuries that the first fortress was built. Isabelle, countess of Crécy, brought in dowry to Guy the Red, count de Rochefort, the city. Guy and his Hugues son uniting with the enemies of the king {Philippe Ier de France equipped Crécy with a frightening defense. As in all strengthened cities, there were a Château, ramparts, turns (of which some always exist), of the doors, etc

By the play of the marriages, Crécy échut in Gaucher II of Chatillon, vassal of the counts of Champagne. It is with him that one allots the reinforcements of the fortifications and the digging of the last brasset.

Its situation, at the border of the Champagne on the road of Troyes and especially on a water way then navigable, supports the trade and makes a stage of it where the merchants, energy of fair in fair, stock themselves in the passing in local productions. The dynamism of the tradesmen of Crécy is a duly preserved heritage since, with 12th and 13th centuries, one counted factories of Peau X, of Laine, cloth S, Vin S as well as the trade of the cattle and wood.

Quays and a port with a commercial door, which will disappear during first half of the 17th century, existed along the brassets and at the edge of the river. To the flourishing trade was added, the 17th century, a population of Magistrat S, notary S, etc a weekly market (Thursday), a fair of the Saint-Michel (the last weekend of September) and many festivals or local demonstrations attract many visitors.

Following the meeting of Champagne to the France, Gaucher V of Chatillon yields to the king Philippe Beautiful the the town of Crécy in 1289.

In 1400, Crécy becomes the prerogative or the field of various family members royal, as with Catherine de Médicis of 1562 with 1589, Gabrielle d' Estrées in 1595, then with the Duc of Vendôme, his son, with Marie Séguier, marchioness of Laval of 1641 with 1710. In 1762, the ground of Crécy ceases belonging to the crown. Louis XV yields it in exchange of the principality of Bombs to the count of Have, whose in 1775 the duke inherits Penthièvre which will be the last lord.

Crécy will cross the Revolution without important disorders, but, following an economic serious attack, two industries only remained, those of the tannery and wood.

Nowadays, Crécy remained a commercial and artisanal city, for the borough, and rural with hamlets nested in the countryside briarde.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Collegial of the Vault

Economy

Famous characters

Catherine de Médicis, which offered its weapons (3 crescents) to the town of Crécy.
Catherine would have come well on several occasions in Crécy, before even as the city is not attached to its fields by gift of the young king Charles IX. One even says that it made there cultivate melons of which it raffolait! (practices florentines?) But thereafter, in the times disturbed by the wars of religion and taking into account the heavy loads assumed by the Lady, one imagines that it did not have too much time to devote to the city. However, the idea that an historical figure could be interested in the city revived the pride of the historians créçois throughout the centuries which followed. Also the explanation concerning the origin of the weapons it city must it be seen like an assumption and not like a certainty. The armoriaux ones devoted to the blazons of the cities and communes in general qualify the origin of the blazon of Crécy, of unknown factor. That concerns a certain wisdom and at the same time leaves in Créçois XXIe century, all the leisure to imagine more other explanations, smiling, more poetic, more créçoises!
Michel Houellebecq, passed part of its childhood to Crécy. The writer largely evoked this section of life créçoise, in his novel in autobiographical matter: the Elementary particles .

Tourist monuments and places

Collegial Our-Lady-of-the Assomption, Church Georges Saint, Belfry, Quay of the Tanneries, Turn to the Saints… It is interesting to evoke " the passage of Guet ". On the basis of the street of the Bridge Rams Gilles, beside a house where the painter Corot (plate) placed, an entry passing by a low porch leads to a narrow paved lane, zigzaging between two old towers of the first belt (of or its name), to join a footbridge jumping a typical brasset of Crécy.

Events

Annual festival with the Saint Michel

Let us point out the secondhand trade of April, very appraisal of the inhabitants, and villages surrounding.

Twinnings

References

Anecdotes

Several episodes of the various seasons of the French Televised series a formidable family were turned in Crecy.

External bonds

Site of Crécy
Site of the " brionautes" , gate of Crécy and its area

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