Haravilliers

Haravilliers is a commune of the Val-d'Oise located in the French Vexin, to approximately 45 km in the North-West of Paris.

Its inhabitants are Haravilliérois (be).

Geography

Haravilliers is located on the plate of the Vexin, and occupies the south-eastern side of the highest Butte-témoin of Île-de-France. The commune thus holds on its territory the culminating point of the area: 217 meters (top of the solid mass of the Hillocks of Rosne). It also has the characteristic in this area mainly made up of villages grouped to be made up of nine hamlets.

The commune is bordering on Berville, Arronville, Theuville, Bréançon, Heaulme and Neuilly-in-Vexin in the department of the Val-d'Oise; Chavençon and Neuville-Bosc in the department close to the Oise.

History

The name of Haravilliers comes from Germanic the Harad and bottom Latin villare , firm.

The place is occupied as of the Préhistoire, as the discovery of many flints cut and polished stones attests it on the territory of the commune. Two sites of habitat and a workshop of potter of the Gallo-Roman time were also discovered. The dimension of the church indicates the importance of the parish to the Moyen-âge; the place names Haradvilerio in 1099. The population is distributed in many hamlets, and the situation poses problem under the Ancien Mode, because of the distance of the parishioners, and especially for the collection of the royal sums of money. A stop of the Parliament of Paris dating of August 17th 1739 décrête thus the separation of several hamlets of the principal parish (Theuville, Ruel, Quoniam, Sausette and Drumal), hamlets which will again be gathered only in 1790 with the creation of the Commune, except for Theuville which will become an independent commune.

Administration

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

the church of the Assumption is a building of the 12th century strongly altered at the 13th century, and 18th centuries. The frontage is flanked in the south of an octagonal Romance turret bored on each face of a bay in semicircular arch with posts and of an archivolt decorated with teeth of saw. The gate of the 18th century réemploie a Romanesque arch. The southern side is flanked of a bell-tower capped as a bâtière. Inside, the nave is arched warheads.

the dovecote located near the church is a beautiful round tower of the 16th century, vestige of an old farm seigneuriale.

the vault Holy-Marie-Madeleine with the hamlet of Ruel goes back to the 13th century, it was altered at the 16th century.

the laundrette , with the hamlet of Queniam, is the only one not to be destroyed with the installation of running water in the village.

The village counts several old rural houses , architecture typical of French Vexin.

Famous characters

Sarah Bernhardt, celebrates it tragic actress, remained in Haravilliers, in a house located on the Buttes of Rosne.

See too

Internal bonds

French Vexin
Common of the Val-d'Oise

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