Ferté-Milon

Geography

Ferté-Milon is a commune of the Aisne, near to Castle-Thierry, in amphitheater on the Ourcq.

It is served by a Gare ('' Ferté-Milon '') of the line Paris - Ferté-Milon - Rheims.

History

Ferté-Milon belonged to the Arrondissement of Castle-Thierry until 1926 when it was attached to the Arrondissement of Soissons before returning to that of Castle-Thierry in 1942. It absorbed in 1960 its neighbor, Saint-Quentin-on-Allan.

Economy

Famous characters

Jean tragic Root Poet, was born with Ferté-Milon the 21 or the December 22nd 1639.

Personalities related to the commune

Theodore Denis Belin;
Henri Lutheroth;
Jean of the Fountain celebrated there its marriage with Marie Héricart in 1647;
Jean-Baptiste Charles Rene Joseph Farmhouse of Polart, general French, lieutenant-general (1775 - 1843) mayor of Ferté-Milon;
the painter Eugene Lavieille (1820-1889) lived with Ferté-Milon of 1856 to 1859, and there will return thereafter. It realized with Ferté-Milon and in the area, various works. One of its paintings is exposed to the museum Jean Racine;
Corot came with Ferté-Milon (1856-1859), and painted a sight of the castle there (from now on with the Museum of art of Ohara, with the Japan).
Anecdotiquement, a photograph of promotion for the exit of the album of Pink Floyd, " Animals ", in January 1977 in Ferté-Milon was taken, at the end of the street of the Market to Corn, not far from the monument with Jean Racine. Other photographs for the same publicity campaign were taken in the area.

Administration

Tourist monuments and places

One finds the ruins of a castle there, frame on the initiative of Louis of Orleans, but left unfinished and whose frontage was 200 meters long on 38 top. A pediment, representing the crowning of the Virgin, dominates the remainders of the door. The frontage is preceded by a ditch. On the line, one distinguishes a square tower of which there remain two sections of wall. In top of the walls, remain old Mâchicoulis. The access to the city was protected by an old door, side castle, of which there remain two turns in bad condition. Behind the wall, two guns of 1909, a diameter of approximately 160 Misters, are exposed vis-a-vis the valley. One two is annotated in Russian and carries number 5085.

With the bottom of the paved lane of the Rats, is the statue of Jean Racine child and a church with the slate roof whose square bell-tower has four turrets in its four angles, of which most external is used as staircase. The roof of the bell-tower and the turrets are with weak slope. One finds there also a footbridge Eiffel which gives access to a park skirting the channel of the Ourcq.

The cinema " Jean Racine" in the middle of an old masonry accommodating the M.J.C there was created and developed by Mr. Michel Delaforterie. Thanks to him Ferté-Milon was one of the first small towns to propose technology Dolby DIGITAL. To consult, the program of this cinema, please click, on the following bond: MOVIES.

Two museums are accessible to the public from April at September the weekend.

Twinnings

See too

References

Alexis-Marie Gochet, picturesque France: history and geography of the provinces of Ile-de-France, Champagne, Flanders, Artois, Picardy, Normandy and Maine and of the departments which they formed , Tours, A. Mame and wire, 1896.
Adolphe Joanne, Géographie of the department of Aisne , Paris: Hatchet, 1874.
Catalog of the Museum Jean Root of Ferté-Milon (1999).

External bonds

Tourist office of Ferté Milon
Photographs of Ferté-Milon
Door of the city on the side of Paris at the XVIIIe century
Article and photographs on the castle of Ferté-Milon

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