Gurcy-le-Châtel

Gurcy-le-Châtel is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Gurcyssois.

Geography

Gurcy-le-Châtel, but also charming Chalautre-la-Reposte, old close commune which chose to be attached to it in 1968, are located at the limit of the immense grounds of the plate of the Brie, on the side of Villeneuve-the-Border and Nangis, with the borders of the country of the Mons, an undulating scrap-metal which surrounds the villages of Donnemarie-in-Mons and Dontilly, which became, in 1967, the small town of Donnemarie-Dontilly.

History

This commune of the small valleys of the Mons, bordered by wood, a few kilometres from Donnemarie-Dontilly was marked by the presence on its territory of a school of trades of Électricité de France, in which were formed of the workmen and the technicians of this large company, in the fields of the distribution and the production of electrical energy. The streets of Gurcy carry dailleurs of many names which in particular marked the electric epopee or the spirit of the scientists (Branly, Ampère, Edison, Descartes, Curie).

This training center Électricité de France was born from the nationalization of electric and gas industries, the shortly after the war. The traditional education system was far from being able to provide all the needs in competences to raise the infrastructures of electrical energy necessary to the rectification of the nation's economy. Besides this school was the subject of a convention with State education.

Young people of 16 or 17 years were recruited with leaving 3rd or a class CAPE, by way of contest and followed a technical formation intensive and accelerated on 12 or 18 months.

This basic training was accompanied by revolutionary a enough style of operation for the time, the self-discipline. This system was not perfect, with a too important weight undoubtedly of “old hand” and their batch of hazings, but it made it possible to the young people to open out and to rub with realities of the professional life and personal in an original way. There was an internal system of democracy, with elections of the selected persons in charge among the pupils having already passed their first six months in the school. The school of the life was said.

The school of trades of Gurcy-le-Châtel evolved/moved at the rate/rhythm of the evolution of this company. On the basis of the preponderance of the formation in the trades of the distribution and the hydraulic production it evolved to the trades of the thermal production (coal and fuel), then of nuclear energy.

This evolution was also translated in a change of the profile of those which came to learn and to improve. They were initially young people resulting from basic technical education, then young people having a greater potential of evolution to quickly become technicians, it was also, a time in parallel to become completely, a center of improvement for EDF agents in station.

Gurcy also became a world center of activities of technical collaboration and teaching with actions on all the continents, this center was called Center of studies and teaching applications. One can also quote the very specific actions, training and improvement of the teachers, a kind of IUFM EDF to some extent, and the formations with work under tension, techniques envied by the professionals of the whole world.

In the field of the Gurcy sport in particular was a rugbystic seedbed both for Racing the Team of France. Great names crossed there like that of Michel Crauste. Its sporting teams were also famous in the fields of the athletics, football, the handball, the judo, the fencing…

At the end of the years 1990, the activity of this center strongly decreased to cease definitively in 2003.

Economy

Farms and small shops

As for much of Seine villages & marnais, the local economy is mainly directed towards the cereal and beet culture. One saw also breeding of bovines and dairy production.

Companies are installed on the commune, in the sectors of the food and the building.

Training center

This commune of the small valleys of the Mons, bordered by wood, a few kilometres from Donnemarie-Dontilly was marked by the presence on its territory of a school of trades of Électricité de France, in which were formed of the workmen and the technicians in the fields of the distribution and the production of electrical energy. Besides certain streets bear the names of people who in particular marked the electric epopee or the spirit of the scientists (Branly, Ampère, Edison, Descartes, Curie).

Young people of 16 or 17 years were recruited with leaving 3rd or a class CAPE, by way of contest and followed a technical formation intensive and accelerated on 12 or 18 months.

At the end of the years 1990, the activity of this center strongly decreased to cease definitively in 2003.

Repurchased by the Departmental union of the Sappers Firemen of Seine-et-Marne, he knows a second life which requires the realization of work of scales.

Famous characters

The Count Paul-Gabriel d' Haussonville, politician and writer, was born on September 21st, 1843 in Gurcy-Le-Châtel. Former deputy, it assists the Duc of Broglie at the time of the crisis of May 16th, 1877. He was elected with the French Academy in 1888 and with the Academy of Science morals and political in 1904.

In the field of the sport, Gurcy in particular was a rugbystic seedbed both for Racing the Team of France. Great names crossed there like that of Michel Crauste.

Its sporting teams were also famous in the fields of the athletics, football, the handball, the judo, the fencing…

Tourist monuments and places

on Gurcy-le-Châtel

remainders of the church Saint-Jacques-the-Major (XVe century), classified historic building
the Fountain of Saint-Jacob Devotion sourdant under a medieval vault
the castle of the XIXe century rebuilt by the Count d' Haussonville, with the site of the castle XVe century that it made demolish into 1840/41

on Chalautre-la-Reposte

the church Saint-Pancrace
ruins of the Feudal Castle of the Mound
the Laundrette recently restored

Events

Culture

Sports

Twinnings

External bonds
http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=17390&req=Gur&style=fiche

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