Grandpré

Grandpré is a small village of 500 inhabitants. Place chief of canton, his principal activity is the breeding. One cultivates there also corn, corn and colza.

History

This locality was during the ages the object of confusions and plunderings of all kinds and each rebuilt time.

At the end of the First World War, French and Allied bombard without mercy the whole of the village as well as the field of the Counts de Joyeuse where the invader was, Uhlans. The Castle, which had been altered by Georges Babled at the end XIXe, had to be entirely rebuilt. The monumental Door (1618) destroyed with 60% could be renovated and find its former aspect.

Administration

Successive mayors:

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Saint M3edard's Day church, with stall and tombs of the counts de Joyeuse (XVIIe century)
  • the castle built by the family of Merry in XVIe century and destroyed in a fire in the 1834 of which porch known as Door of Justice , built in 1617 in a style Louis XIII characterized by the use of bricks and stones, bretèches and échauguetes

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

External bond

  • Argonne of the Ardennes, the canton of Grandpré

  • Nocturnia the museum of nature the night = canton of Grandpré
  • www.argonne-decouverte.net

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