Fountain-Saint-Martin is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.

The inhabitants of Fountain-Saint-Martin are called Saint-Martinois.

Geography

The western end of the village is to a few hundred meters of the the Saone. The village extends on both sides from a recess in the plate of the Dombes. The communes bordering are in particular the Fountain-on-Saone in the south and southern western, Stone-on-Fountains in the east and north is, the Rochetaillée-on-Saone in western north.

Localities and variations

The David and the Buisson with its medieval castle are the oldest hamlets (XIe and XIIe centuries). Then vînrent the hamlets of the Guettes and the Prolières with the presence of mills with grains and oil on the brook of Roÿe which taken then the name of brook of the Vosges. The Trève Oray and the Farmhouse-Joint date from XVIe century, and more recently appeared the hamlets of the Cantin , the Petit Mill and the Ruelle when the cemetery placed around the church was moved in top of the rise of the same name in 1835. Two other geographical places in France bear an identical name, the commune of Fountain-Saint-Martin in the Sarthe, and the Fountains Saint Martin's day, locality to the Gironde beside Blaye. These three sites with as common point the passage of Roman ways on their grounds which Saint Martin's day borrowed to go évangéliser the Gallic campaigns.

History

The village, formerly Holy Martin de Fontaines (of 1245 to 1850), was founded by Saint Martin de Tours into 377, which had taken part in the foundation of the first Christian communities of the Val of the Saone at the time of its stays repeated with the monastery of the island Barbe. This year there, it destroyed a Roman temple dedicated to Isis, whose certain remainders (out of Carrara marble) were recently discovered at the time of excavations. Then he baptized the inhabitants of the village to the many fountains which existed, which was the origin of the name of the village. In the Middle Ages the commune was a considered place of pilgrimage, the pilgrims coming to request Saint Martin's day, first owner of France. A fountain trônant on the place of the village refers to the famous episode of the cape which the saint divided into two.

County of Savoy then duchy of Savoy, with the kingdom of France, Saint Martin's day de Fontaines was Savoyard until the treaty of Turin in 1696, of many crosses of Savoy in the church and on the communal blazon these origins recall. Saint Martin's day de Fontaines gathered the communes of Fountains on the Saone (Saint-Louis parish) and of Stones on Fountains (parish Notre-Dame de Cailloux). Stones separated from the common mother in 1793 and Fontaines in 1850.

After being fallen under protection from the Counts de Savoie at the 13th century and indirectly, in the Saint Worsens, the province of the Franc-Lyonese to which the village belonged is joined together with the kingdom of France a few centuries later. In 1789, the Western Franc-Lyonese takes his place in the new department of the Rhone and the Loire.

Administration

Mayors of Saint Martin's day de Fontaines, then of Saint Martin's day Fountains, since the Revolution

• Before 1789 Count François of Saint-Georges, President of the Parish - Canon of his Holiness 

• 1790-1791 Jean Morel, President of the Syndic
• 1791-1791 Levrat, President of the Syndic
• 1791-1792 Benoit Clair, President of the Syndic
• 1792-1793 Roberjot, President of the Community
• 1793 Genouilleux Citizen-Mayor
• 1793-1794 Pierre Fox, Cobbler, Clerk, holding the role of mayor under Terror
• 1794-1799 Boisvert, Vine grower, Citizen-Mayor
• 1799-1808 François Simon, Farmer, Mayor
• 1808-1812 Favre de Longry, owner, Mayor
• 1812-1815 Jean Pistre, farmer, Mayor
• 1815-1816 Antoine Generaux, Mayor
• 1816-1825 Jean-Claude Foulet, Mayor
• 1825-1829 Robert Chorace, Mayor and Adviser of the Department
• 1829-1830 François Robert, Mayor
• 1830-1849 Louis Perrot, Miller, Mayor and General adviser
• 1849-1855 François Laverriere, Farmer, Mayor
• 1855-1865 Nicolas Chatanay, Farmer, Mayor
• 1865-1870 Joseph Maniquet, Owner, Mayor, temporary Senator of Empire
• 1870-1871 Joseph Descompte, Tisserand, Mayor
• 1871-1876 Antoine Chevrot, Mayor
• 1876-1878 Jean-Baptiste Chatanay, Farmer, Mayor
• 1878-1890 Claude Berrey, Farmer, Mayor
• 1890-1902 Antoine Chatanay, Farmer, Mayor, President of the Agricultural trade union
• 1902-1909 François Collomb, Farmer, Mayor, Knight of the agricultural Merit
• 1909-1911 Antoine Chatanay, Farmer, Mayor, President of the agricultural trade union
• 1911-1912 Louis Labrosse, Farmer, Mayor
• 1912-1919 Pierre Gonnard, Farmer, Mayor, President Coopérative of South-east, Knight of the Agricultural Merit
• 1919-1920 Maurice Piguet, Engineer, Mayor
• 1920-1929 Jacques Gauthier, owner, Mayor, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
• 1929-1938 Claude Cochet, Engineer, Mayor
• 1938-1939 Marius Armand, Shoe-maker, Mayor
• 1939-1945 Felix Rollet, Solicitor, Mayor, Vice-president of Courly
• 1945-1977 Charles Laroche, Farmer, Senior of the Mayors of the Rhone, 32 years as mayor
• 1977-2001 Pierre Magnard, Chief cook, Mayor, Community Adviser
• 2001-2008 Patrick Laurent, Agricultural engineer, Mayor, Vice-president of Large-Lyon, knight of the Agricultural Merit

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