Flize

Flize is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Geography

Located at the south-west of Charleville-Mézières

- Flize:

In a diploma of Henry II of Germany, in 1023, confirming the goods of the abbey of Mouzon, for the first the commune of Flize appears, under the name of Falisia. This name is still mentioned in 1321, in the treaty occurred between the prior of Donchery and the count de Rethel. Thereafter, the village:

- had to suffer much during the One hundred year old war;

- was devastated by the troops of the duke of Nassau and Sickingen, before they besiege Mézières in 1521;

- was, after the battle of Marfée, 1641, plundered by the German calvinists whom Lambois ordered;

- was devastated at the times of the League, when the lord d' Yvernaumont was dislodged by it, 1599, by the marshal of Saint-Paul, who attacked it, then, in Nouvion, where it had taken refuge.

Flize belonged to France only after the treaty of Brussels, November 17th, 1769, concluded by Louis XV and Marie-Therese. Following this treaty, were included in the French territory many other villages on Right Bank of the Meuse, in countries of Empire since the treaty of Mersen, 870, and which did not pay taxes under the terms of this axiom: of Imperio valor abest.

The villages was occupied by the Russian troops in 1814.

We read in a regist preserved at the Town hall: " Of April 25th, 1814, arrival of Mr. Frederic de Grollmann, captain of the 27e Russian division, regiment of Tarnopolsky, in the capacity as commander of the place of the town of Flize, and under the terms of order signed Barclay de Tolly, accompanied by prince de Maguron, second lieutenant of the known as regiment, and three servants. Of June 16th, 1814, departure of aforesaid and six Russian soldiers… Since September 3rd, 1815 until May 1817, a Prussian station, of ten men, occupied Flize."

In 1870, the day day before even when the battle of Sedan was delivered, Flize was set fire to and plundered by some German rear-guards. The tested losses exceeded 94.000 francs. It was not all: because, so much in requisitions than in quota for contribution of war, the commune had to give 125.398 francs. And yet did Fliziens beseech leniency (?) of the winner. They had addressed to the German Prefect, to Rethel, a message where very humbly they made a statement on their lamentable situation.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

- the church: A church would have been built, in the year 1600, after the village of Rimont had been destroyed. It occupied the site where is, today, the Town hall; a cemetery surrounded it. Later another vault was built - in the middle of the cemetery - what made set up Collart, lord of Flize, which had its fall into the old church. Two vaults for a village having only 58 inhabitants, just! Rimont, as it disappeared, counted at least 150 of them.

The current Saint-Remi church date of 1865: it has three naves with transept, 40 meters length on 20 of width.

A rather pretty Way of Cross is in relief on the wall. The organ was given by Mrs. Jacob.

To buy the two new bells, one resold the old bell carrying the year 1777, of which the godfather was Antonio Raulin, lord of the stronghold of Flize, lieutenant of the great louvetery of France, manufacturer of the royal drapery of Sedan and the godmother, Marguerite Durand de Miremont.

There was indeed, in Flize, a " cloth fulling mill of Sedan". It was in the old mill - one sees of them the vestiges close to the forging mill - which, until 1650, had been reserved exclusively for flour-milling. This mill had had for first owners the monks of Dash.

The street of the Mill (current street Roger Salengro) constitutes with the Pasture, near to the church, the oldest part of the village.

- the castle:

To the place the " says; Château" , confluence of the Meuse and the brook of Dash, rose, formerly, a tower or watches for, as it was some many and many along the river. On its site a castle was built which lived, about 1815, the Clermont-Thunder family, and whose parks would have been drawn by Nostre.

After the treaty of Brussels the turret of this castle was demolished which, consequently, became cloth manufacture, then spinning mill, then ironwork and, finally, middle-class house. By dredging the Meuse, in this place, one withdrew water of rather many weapons undoubtedly coming from the " soldiers royaux" facts captive with the battle of Nouvion, 1592, and then drowned by order of the marshal of Saint-Paul.

In 1843, Mr. Gendarme, of Vrigne-with-Wood, ironmaster in Boutancourt and Flize, acquired this castle - or rather this middle-class house - and transformed it completely. When was made, in 1868, " the liquidation of the usines" , this castle was bought by Mrs. Jacob-Jacquemin, now died, who gave him her pace seigneuriale. It is, now, the property of the Arcomat company.

- Rimont: Rimont was an old rather important village mentioned, on September 15th, 1176, in the donation which makes Guillaume de Champagne, archbishop of Rheims, in the Saint-Remy cheese chapter of Wall. It was called also Hardimont, and it would have been in extreme cases of the territories of Dom and Flize, to the place says the " Côte". Rimont, its " house-forte" and its church undoubtedly disappeared between the years 1521 and 1592; the Imperial ones having begun the ruin of this village which the troops of Saint-Paul completed. On his site, one found ornaments of church, vases known as crowned, and one saw a long time calcined stones.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

Flize on the site of INSEE

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