Eauze

Eauze is a common French, located in the department of the Gers and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Eauze ( civitas Elusa at the 4th century) is the principal city of the Low-Armagnac. Its area is also called Eauzan.

Geography

Eauze is a town of approximately 3900 named inhabitants Élusates. It is located on the Gélise in the Département of Gers, with the crossing of the ex- RN 626 (Mimizan - Saint-Justin - Vic-Fezensac - Auch - Lombez - Pamiers) and of the ex RN 131 (Manciet - Condom - Agen). Eauze is on the road alignment with large gauge which connects Langon to Toulouse and which borrows from the west of the city a section of the ex RN 626 which was reclassified in RN 524. A bypass of RN 524 was brought into service to allow the convoys conveying the sections of the A380 to circumvent the city to join Blagnac.

A small river, the Gélise, curves with the foot of the city.

Economy

Eauze and its area live mainly of agriculture. Eauze is known as “the capital of the Armagnac”. It is indeed located in the most prestigious zones of appellation contr4ol3ee of Low-Armagnac. The principal agricultural productions of the countryside in the neighborhoods are the Vigne and the Maïs, as well as the breeding of the Oie S and Canard S for the canning facility, and a strong production of Poulet S farmers red label (Farm chickens of Gers). The Gers has a heritage of Polyculture which still remains with other varied activities (Tournesol, Blé, oats, Orge, breeding of Bovin S, for the meat and Lait, etc).

The local products most known are the Armagnac, the Floc of Gascogne (Apéritif containing Armagnac and of juice of Raisin) and the Foie gras of Canard and Oie. Eauze is also a city having some industrial companies, either dependant on the transformation of the products of agriculture, Cooperative wine cave Viticole, sawmills and processing industries of wood, canning facilities, or directly related to agriculture: sale and maintenance of farm equipment.

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999
(until in 1831, the graph does not include/understand the population of the old commune of Saint-Lover)

History

Éauze is old the Elusa , the city of the Aquitanian people of the Elusates. Combined in Sotiates (inhabitants of S.O.S, Lot-et-Garonne), they resisted to the Roman centurions of Jules César ordered by Crassus. After the seat of S.O.S, Élusates accepted Roman supremacy.

Eauze was the capital of the Roman province of Novempopulanie; it will remain an administrative metropolis until the 8th century.

At the 5th century Eauze became one of the évêchés first. The city was destroyed during the Early middle ages, one period obscure. A priory was born in 950 and was attached to with it to Cluny.

Henri IV, having reconquered Eauze in 1579, remained with the queen Margot in the house known as “of Jeanne d' Albret”.

Wellington, prosecutor Soult in 1815, installed its guns there.

In 1832, Eauze absorbed the common neighbor of Saint-Lover.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle .
One comes from Lagraulet-of-Gers the , the next commune is Manciet

Twinning

Monuments

Eauze is an old city, where the vestiges of the past abound. One can distinguish the old city, located inside the old ramparts now transformed into boulevards and whose some vestiges remain, and the modern city, which grows outside. One can note a certain number of remarkable constructions:

the Cathedral Saint-Luperc. It is devoted to Saint Lupercus, evangelist who converts Anatole and Dassin.

Built in 1521, by the bishop Jean Enough of Condom. It is a Gothic vessel high of 22 m, with single nave, and low vaults between the buttresses, with a octagonal Clocher. Roman bricks were employed again in the walls.

Its high bays have stained glasses of the 17th century.

the building shelters a Orgue platform (Daublaine-Callinet, 1842) with dresser neogothic which, unfortunately, one cannot play any more.

the archbishop of Auch François Augustin Delamare makes church again a cathedral in 1865.

A whole whole of old half-timbered houses, of which the house of Jeanne d' Albret of the 15th century with wood pillars and carved beams.

vestiges of the old ramparts with remainders of the still visible ditches, as well as sections of wall of the first enclosure, very close to Gelise.

the imperial water tower, first modern Tower water of France, built on the orders of Napoleon III.

the very beautiful archaeological Museum of Eauze, where is exposed an important Roman treasure found the October 18th 1985 in the close surroundings. It includes/understands more 20 000 coins, of which some out of gold and money, of the jewels and the invaluable objects.

the objects and documents presented evoke the life of the inhabitants of the antique Elusa (Eauze), which was the capital of the Roman province of Novempopulanie.

the arenas Nimeño II, of 4000 places, where remains the Gascon tradition taurine.

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