Flamarens

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

Geography

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
One comes from Saint-Antoine-on-L' Arrats, the next commune is Miradoux, old country house.

History

Etymology: the name of Flamarens would be of Germanic origin, derived from the radical fran , some Flamarius lord of the place. According to the oral tradition: formerly the village would have been called Arens but following a violent one sets fire to the inhabitants would have associated the concept of flame with the old term which would have thus become Flamarens .

When Flamarens still did not name

And when however on this slope

Took care on the valley a village

a terrible fire remained in the memories

left upright only rare chicots

The Viscounts of Lomagne, Durfort, Galard, then Grossoles had this seigniory. On the site of a “castrum” attested in 1289, Jean de Grossoles, lord of the place made it build in 1469 by mason Limousin a stone.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Castle.
It is one of these Gentilhommière S Gascon with windows and machicolation, with the hinge of the fort passed, and of the new residence, square home with the two round towers. One said then: " Lo castèt of Flamarens, Study Bureau dehore, Study Bureau deguéns" (the castle of Flamarens, beautiful outside like inside).
But it was degraded and in 1851 the Agen-native poet Jasmin translated that by: " poulit deforo, led dedéns" (beautiful outside, ugly inside).
A fire in 1944 failed the achever.

Religious buildings

At side, the church of the 16th century, it also threatened, watch a pointed wall-belfry with two arcades and a round turret of staircase.

Personalities related to the commune

Mrs. de Grossoles-Flamarens, mother of the pyreneist Henry Russell
Pierre Benoit, writer, author of the novel Flamarens

See too

Common of Gers
List of French churches to campenard

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