Daglan

Daglan (in occitan Daglan ) is a common French located in the department of the the Dordogne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

History

Daglan, village located in a widening of the valley of the Céou, hyphen between High Quercy and the Dordogne river, leave the fogs of the history towards Ve century, date on which the place is used as place of burial, as the term of the guardian owner of the parish church would prove it Saint Martin de Tours, died at the end of IVe century.

The name of the borough, certainly of Celtic origin, means in French " Bonneval" or " good vallée" , combining the Celtic root " Da" or " Dag" meaning bank or valley and " lan" or " len" introducing the concept of fertility of the grounds. The origin of the name would be thus Gallic, more especially as slag accumulations close to the castle of Pauliac prove the existence of forging mills dating from the establishment of the latter on the place. At all events, a " primitive village " was to exist at the end of the Early middle ages. Indeed, with the creation of the diocese of Sarlat in 1317, the parish church, the Sainte-Marie vaults of mow Novas and the Vergers existed already. The latter was besides at all times an important place of pilgrimage, attested as of XIIe century. The place appears under the denomination " Castro novo" before XIIIe century.

It is at the beginning of XIVe century that the church of Daglan is quoted under the " term; Sanctus Martinsis de Dagliono". Latinized current name is as of 1489 pennies the form " Dagliono". Partly destroyed by the one hundred year old war, it was rebuilt and increased following the wars of religion by a succession of small vaults. Only the chorus and the apse are Romance time, as the two bottoms of lamp of the latter prove it. At the XIXe century, of 1898 to 1900, threatening ruin, it was restored wrongly because increased once again because of the complaints of the inhabitants. The church, seems it, was always dedicated to Martin saint. Near the latter, the Sainte-Marie fountain was, perhaps, a place of devotions, as its shape of Latin cross would prove it.

On 1281 until the end of XIVe century, the two small seigniories depended on Dome Old woman, belonging to the goods of Gilbert de Domme. That of Pauliac fell to the hands from Cugnac-Caussade, then towards 1680 they were Goudin, lords of Roussie (Proissans), who inherited it. The castle of Peyruzel, of which the oldest parts are dated from XIIIe century, belongs then to Solminihac, then, by alliance, with the Castling of Saint-Pompom and Cugnac de Giverzac. The family of Mirandol settled in the walls following the purchase of the seigniory by François de Mirandol in 1595. Mirandol, which had also the castle of Péchaut, there lived alternatively. They will preserve both until the French revolution.

The parish, populated enough, account in 1365, between 500 and 600 inhabitants. For proof, Raymond de Roquecorn, first bishop of Sarlat, did of it one of the seven archpriests of his diocese, which joined together eighteen parishes. Our parish had to suffer from the devastations which had with the one hundred year old war and the Black Death which almost entirely depopulated Daglan and its surroundings. Gilbert de Domme, seneshal of king de France, often betrays this last, benefitting from the disorders caused to increase his fortune and his stronghold. Thus, in 1358, it will even project to seize Sarlat and to bring back the spoils of it to Daglan. End XIVe, the castle of Peyruzel will be even occupied by English truck drivers, who will foam the country and his neighborhoods. Once returned peace, Daglan was repopulated quickly with the assistance of populations coming from the Limousin, Bas-Quercy and the Massif Central, reaching as of the end of the XVIIe century nearly 1500 people. In 1701, the parish counts two hundred and eighty eighteen fires, that is to say approximately thousand four hundred and sixty inhabitants. The grounds are described there like " bonnes". The maximum of population will be reached in the middle of the XIXe century when the figure of the censuses indicates more than thousand six hundred Daglanais. In 1876, one counts thousand six hundred and fifteen of them, then this figure will be stabilized until the beginning of the XXe century around thousand five hundred and forty people. Then, the population will be touched by the rural migration due to the failure, partly, of the replanting of the vine following the crisis related to will phylloxéra (about 1880 here), impossibility of mechanizing the agricultural work, and the war of 14-18. Whereas in 1901 there were thousand five more hundred twenty-six Daglanais, five years later, they are already nothing any more but thousand three hundred and twenty-four. But the true fall dates from the years 1920. In 1990, Daglan counted 477 inhabitants. In 2004, one counts 535 of them.

Two factors are at the origin of the revival of Daglan after the one hundred year old war: its many mills ten and the famous vineyard of the country of Dome. Indeed, the grounds limestones of causse, the poor, were appropriate perfectly for the vine. They are thus transfered covered soon with the latter, this movement of advantageous plantation beginning as of the end from war the one hundred year old. The wine of Dome, very snuffed by the Dutchmen and the English, like by the court of king de France, knew a great fame then. The borough, with the accession of a local middle-class often originating in Dome, covers private mansions, such those of Mirandol, of Montmirail, street of the fountain (in the past called Lavergne), of Revaugier (old Bouquet hotel), near noble hotels (the town hall).

But this boom was to stop with the wars of religion where Daglan, placed along the future " main road royal" from Limoges with Agen, was to undergo the passages of the troops and degradations, flights, plunderings in all kinds. Pauliac was to serve d'" hôpital" with Geoffroy de Vivans, lord of Doissat, captain of the castle of Castelnaud, i.e. basic back. The Édit of Nantes will put an end to this fratricidal war. If the parish did not suffer too much from the country revolt of 1594-95, that was not the case for that of 1707, that of the " Late Avisés". March 15th of this year, to the falling night, nearly two hundred men armed with forks, sticks, rifles, invaded the borough and, threatening its inhabitants, required that a certain number follow them in their company. It is known how that finished. Having failed in front of Sarlat, the latter ebbed in mass on other side of the river, i.e. once again by the valley of Céou, then turned over to their fields.

The load of archpriest was enviable, because of the incomes which it got. One of its last owners to the XVIIe century, Jean Vabre, sior of Chateauneuf, Doctor of Divinity, adviser and chaplain of the king, was interested particularly in the wine and its incomes, at the point to inquire in 1675 into the cellars of its flocks! It was not the only one to present to the history a particular face. Its successor, François Bial, would have been the object of an attempted murder on behalf of J. - B. Bousquet, which, in 1717, will have to require forgiveness of him of the mass to have it " daringly insulté" ! Last nine years later, Jean Vabre will cause it even in duel after him to have thrown wine glass to the face. But that is only peccadillos compared to what followed. It was shown by Jean Martial in front of justice to be the lover of his wife.

The revolution will make disappear the archpriest. But during six years, Daglan was then chief town of canton, equipped with a district court, then became a simple commune of the canton of Dome in 1800. Although having abolished the feudal rights, having swept the structures and the principal symbols of the Old Mode, the Revolution was also synonymous with frequent disorders in period of strong upheaval. The main issue came from the policy anti-nun practiced by the successive Convention and modes until the Consulate. Daglan was to know tragic events. One of its representatives, deputy of constituent, the abbot Delfaut, the last archpriest of Daglan, which had however voted the end of the feudal right and good number of measures to the spirit of time, refused to lend oath to the civil constitution of the clergy. Thus become " réfractaire" according to the term of the time, it was arrested on August 10th, 1792 and was imprisoned with others in the convent of the Carmelite friars, in Paris. September 2nd of the same year, after a speech ignited of Danton in front of the situation of the troops of the Republic, the sections exaltées jacobines forced the weak guard placed in front of the aforementioned place and proved to the enemies of the people their determination while massacring nearly one hundred fifty monks, of which the Delfaut abbot.

Wearied by political instability, the catastrophic economic situation and the threat at the borders of the country which had caused the decree of levy in masse of the August 16th and 23rd 1793 concerning all the valid men from eighteen to forty years, without possibility of replacement, a good part of the population, strongly religious, still ran up against the capacity. Thus in 1794, when the second wave of terror falling down on the country, the district of Sarlat, hitherto not very dedicated, wanted to count the goods of church (in particular bells and objects being used for the worship), its representatives were accepted by stone jets and a drubbing from which they escaped only by escaping in front of a " cloud of femmes". In year XI, in the month of ventôse and germinal, a cabal, always orchestrated by the women, succeeds by twice preventing the taking of to the cure of Maraval, named at this station to replace Camot. One launched for this reason nine mandates to bring against the principal driving ones.

The economic situation was already evoked. The latter also caused, as at the time of the Old Mode, a popular rising against the employees of the control of Dome. Begun on November 18th, 1814, it was to take again three days later with the active support of the inhabitants of Daglan, Castelnaud, the Vault-Péchaut, Cénac who took as an hostage the mayor and certain rich person owners, taking along them until Sarlat where they released the leader, Soulier. In front of its importance (one entered two thousand people!) the participants were hardly continued.

But the period of the crisis of will phylloxéra put an end to this prosperity since 1880. The plantation of new seedlings pressed by the invention of the pulp of Bordeaux, the attempts at setting in culture of pines and lavenders on causses weighed only very little vis-a-vis mechanization and with an already started depopulation. The war of 14-18 will carry a fatal blow. This " bleeding humaine" will reduce to little the population of Daglan.

Today large borough of 535 inhabitants, equipped with the dry Stone-built house coupled with the exposure with the old tools and objects with formerly, of a young tourist office, Daglan invites you to discovered of his history.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of Peyruzel, 18th century 19th century, classified.
Cabanes out of stone dries ( chabanos or chebanos in Périgord). Circuit of discovered these buildings proposed by the Stone-built house dries (addresses: The Borough - 24250 Daglan; Tel.: 05 53 29 88 84).
Many sites of bathes in the river Céou (the Dam, Mirandole and Cuzoul).
ludic Descent of Céou (many cascades classifies II to III) in Kayak or Canoë until the the Dordogne (ideal period in February - March).
Site of Climbing in the vicinity with the rock of the count in the valley of Céou after Saint-Cybranet (many ways of all levels).

Local life

Festival of Saint-Louis at the end of August (concerts, Bandaged, ravelled tanks and punch with gogo).

Personalities related to the commune

Jacques Coudon, storyteller and writer occitan.
Germinal Peiro, appointed PS in function and former teacher of the nursery school.

See too

External bonds

Official site of the village of Daglan
Daglan on the site of the national geographical Institute
Daglan on the site of INSEE
Daglan on the site of Quid
Localization of Daglan on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Daglan on Mapquest
dry Stone-built house, écomusée devoted to the dry stone vestiges of the old local vineyard

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