Digulleville

Digulleville is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie, in the west of Cherbourg.

Its inhabitants is called Digullevillais (be).

Geography

Located on the point of the La Hague, the commune consists of a " village-rue" (the street Desert) and of dispersed hamlets.

History

Digulleville means “field of Digold”, of the name of Norman chief.

The first occupations on the territory of the commune are very old. The presence of tumuli and the discovery of bronze parts testify to a Celtic establishment former to the Roman invasion. The Legend of Equinandra, unelle druidess related to the rock of Esquina, in bay of Ecuty, evokes the memory of this time. A Gallo-Roman village would have been installed close to Plainvic.

For certain authors make of Digulleville the center of Coriallo, city of Unelles mentioned in the Itinéraire of Antonin. Indeed, in the absence of traces, Coriallo could be, not a city but several hamlets covering the point of La Hague, protected by the La Hague-Dick, between Éculleville and Omonville-the-Small.

With the Middle Ages, the territory of the parish is strewn with several firm manors, properties of noble of the surroundings. The Manor of Ouville belonged to the counts d' Aigneaux, Chesnaye and Rantôt with the Jallot family, lords of Beaumont. Their brother, the knight of Rantôt, corsair and smuggler, made build the farm of Basmonterie like den. The Manor of Gruberts was property of the family of Bosq. One of them, Nicolas of Bosq, lord of Grubert, was general of Louis XIV.

The plate of the High-Marsh accommodates at the XVIIIe century a village of tisserands, making drugget.

In January 1915, whereas the headlights are extinct because of the war, the Astrée was failed on the rocks of the Hull.

Economy

Digulleville profits from the repercussions of professional tax due to the establishment on its industrial park, of many companies soustraitantes of the Plant reprocessing of La Hague, like with the extension of the factory of Areva (UP3) in 1991, and more incidentally with the Center of storage of the English Channel of the ANDRA.

The industrial park is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of Cherbourg-Cotentin.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Large body of farms and residences seigneuriales: Manors of Boscq and Douville, farms of Rantôt, Chesnaye and Haizette (firm manor of the XVIIe century with two turret square of staircase on the northern frontage).
Romance Church of the 13th century. It a long time hid behind its plasters a retable in trompe-l'oeil (or " retable of the pauvres"), painted in 1785, redécouvert randomly of a restoration two centuries later. At the time, finances did not allow truths marbles and sculptures which one thus painted with same the wall. About 1830, one hides paintings with a true retable out of wooden, then out of marble. It was restored in 1985.
Sémaphore of Jardeheu, on the point of the same name, going back to 1860. It is recently the property of the commune (does not visit itself).

Events

Celebrities

Guillaume de Digulleville, monk and poet of the the Middle Ages
Nicolas of Bosq, sior of Gruberts, born in 1638, brigadier general of the black musketeers, dead on September 11th 1709, carried by a ball at the time of the Battle of Malplaquet,
Henri Robert Jallot of Beaumont (about 1654-1720), said Knight of Rantôt (of the name of a firm manor of Digulleville occupied by Pierre, its brother), lord of Saint Martin's day (Omonville-the-Small), corsair and defrauder of the end of the XVIIe century, which lived the farm of Basmonterie.
Good Prosper Lepesqueur (August 2nd, 1846, Digulleville - January 31st, 1921, Cherbourg), of his true name Polidor. Draftsman of the Navy in Cherbourg, he becomes chronicler in language Normand E in " the Headlight of the English Channel ". He is the author of many songs into Norman, whose Cordounyi , the Battery of Serasin , Chendryi , Parcie , Fisset … He signed also P. Lepesqueux, Bounin Polidor or P. Lecacheux.

The legend of Équinandra

In -56, the Roman legions invade the Cotentin. In spite of the resistance of the Unelles, the troops of Jules César advance, and the Gallic ones, cut off in the La Hague decide to sacrifice, by the hand of the young druidess Equinandra, more the young child of the tribe, that of their chief, Viridovix. But this sacrifice is vain, they undergo a new defeat. Furious Viridorix to have lost the final battle and its child, is avenged on Clodomir, husband of the priestess, wounded during the engagements, by making it fail a whole night under the eyes of Équinandra, by the administration of poisonous sheets on the wounds.

In the small hour, despaired by the painful one died of her husband, Équinandra requires of his father, the Vindulos druid, to bury it alive near that which she liked, at the end of bay of Écuty. The rock which will become maritime by the erosion of the waves, Esquina, guard since the trace in its name.

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