Haybes

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

Haybes is also called Haybes the Pretty one or Haybes the Rose because of the covers in Ardoise, whose extraction made, like its common neighbor Fumay, the reputation of the borough. The city, destroyed with the whole beginning of the First World War, was entirely rebuilt in the years 1920.

Geography

The commune of Haybes, located at 35 km in the north of Charleville-Mézières, developed out of Right Bank of the Meuse. The city extends first of all in length along the river since its limit with the commune of Fumay to the locality from Moraypré and is pressed on the buttresses of the schistous solid mass along the street of Madam de Cormont from whom are built suburban sectors. This availability of constructible grounds does of Haybes one of the rare communes of the point of the Ardennes to present a positive population growth.

History

Mention of Haybes the oldest known to date date of 919. It is also during this Xe century that construction is reported, on an island facing the borough, of a castle. Haybes is then a dependancy of the County of Lome. It remains it until 1342, year of its fastening to the Comté of Namur that Philippe the Good, Duc of Burgundy buys in 1421 and will be, by way of heritage transmitted to the branch of Spain. Frontier city between France and the Netherlands, Haybes, like the other boroughs forming the “finger of Givet”, will know several episodes of military occupations, and destruction. Also, in 1554, at the time of the raid orchestrated by the Duke of Nevers, on the order of Henri II, king de France, the village and its castle are destroyed. New troop movements are recorded at the time of the Traité of Nimègue: Haybes is occupied in 1679, Haybes by the Spanish army before being removed the following year by French. In 1697, the Traité of Ryswick returns the territory of Haybes to the Spanish Netherlands. Two years later, the village, with the borough close to Hargnies, is attached to France during the signature of the Treaty of Lille. Haybes will be able nevertheless to preserve its laws, custom and habits of the diocese of Namur.

At the XIXe century, the history of the commune is primarily marked by the economic advancement and the modernization of the axes of communication. In 1840, the ford separating Haybes with Fumay is replaced by a bridge, which will be destroyed with the two World wars. In 1852, the alteration work begins from the road leading of Haybes to Hargnies, the current secondary road n°7. In 1878, construction from the schools, the opening of a post office in 1879 begins. A new town hall is inaugurated in 1883.

Haybes in August 1914 is entirely destroyed by the German army and, like the whole of the Ardennes, will be occupied during 4 years. The rebuilding, begun in 1919, is completed in 1926. The new town hall, located at the site of the old church, is built in 1923, the new church in 1927. The rebuilding supported, as in Fumay, a fast renewal of activity of the salte quarries. The New Hope is equipped, under the impulse of its director, Mr. Devauchelle, of equipment intended to support the life of the workmen and of their own company of help. But the economic crisis comes to break these paternalist steps, involving the disappearance of many employment. In 1956, underground collapses lead to the closing of the last exploitation of the commune: Beautiful Rose, site which an important sawmill occupies today.

Administration

The commune of Haybes belongs to the canton of Fumay and, in the inter-commune plan, is member of the Community of Communes the Ardennes Rives of Meuse.

Demography

Places and monuments

the War memorial

A triumphal arch made out of white stone of France, and carrying the list of the victims of the commune, frames, by its semicircular ends, a central scene. Characters, made out of bronzed cast iron, are driven on a fragment of the sphere representing France. The scene symbolizes, under the features of a teenager, French people. This one carries, in its left arm a whole of books representing the Right and Science and holds up, of the right hand, the torch of freedom. Protected by a lion, it goes under the wing of the Victoire who guides it in her road. The unit rests on a blue stone base, the limestone of Givet, on which three plates are fixed, also out of bronze. The first represents Main street of the borough in flames after the exactions made by the enemy. The second, allegorical, watch the Fatherland inclining itself in front of a tomb. The last plate, as for it, watch a section of machine gunners placed out of left bank of the river and looking in direction of Haybes. Work is signed L. Rauner.

the Field of Moraypré

The field of Moraypré, property of an Educational Medical Institute, is an old field including/understanding an old company of tannery and a house of Master built in 1870. Property of the king of the Belgians, the site accommodated, in the years 1900, of many artists and made function, during the Second world war, of German military hospital.

In the old park of the property, one can still observe a pond as well as a restored mill being used as lodging of groups for the CLIP (Recreational center and of Initiation Permanent) also installed in the vicinity.

The park also shelters, but buried for questions of conservation and safety, an old blast furnace dated from XVIe century and classified with the Historic buildings.

salte quarries

As for Fumay, Haybes counts at the same time exploitations having employed few workmen with several tens with the example of Beautiful Rose or Hope, like some people. The most modest exploitations developed, generally, in geological sectors more constraining with schist levels of quality less the site following the example of distributed along the valley of Mohron, arranged in hiking trail.

One quotes, hereafter, the names of exploitations which reached us by the files and the popular memory: Old Hope, Beautiful Merry, Beautiful Rose, Folemprise (new), Folemprise (old or “Pit of the 17”), Union, the Providence or Pit of Isle, Charnois, Liémery, Montauban, New Hope, Raymond de Bellevue, Holy Antoine, Holy Jean or Inhabitants of the Ardennes, Holy Lambert, Saint Pierre, Saint Paul or of the Fund of Oury, Holy Roch (Fund of Morhon), Holy Roch or Hole Trotte or of the Fish pond, Holy Wladimir, Holy Beard, Holy White of Landenelle or Hole Solomon, Holy Marguerite, Davreux Hole, Evrard Hole, Fouday Hole, Hole Leg.

the oldest exploitations on the territory of Haybes are dated from the XVIIe century. So entries remain visible, even accessible, one will disadvise to the walkers venturing there, these sites being potentially dangerous.

sites and legends

the Rock of Madam de Cormont

Madam de Cormont is a personality of Haybes having lived with horse on XVIIe and XVIIIe century. Of Cormont, land big landowners, remained in a castle, now disappeared, located on the heights of the borough. One morning, the Lord de Cormont, contrary to its practices, proposed with his wife a ride in wood. But, hardly it under the carriage door of the castle passed that it éperonna the horse which took them along, making leap the animal. Madam de Cormont, who did not have time to drop, violently struck the metal beam of the postern and crumbled. Her husband, as for him, disappeared. Madam de Cormont returned to the life thanks to the care lavished by the inhabitants. Also, when she died, in 1729, she bequeathed her gold to the poor of the commune, her grounds with the Jéroministes monks of Fumay. The latter set up to him, in forest, a vault on the path still called path of Cormont today. The building was burned with the Revolution. The legend tells that, “during the fire this engraved on a rock, dealing with vault, the figure of Madam de Cormont who protested thus, against this odious vandalism”.

source: Meyrac, Albert. Traditions, habits, legends and tales of the Ardennes. Editions of the Large Fountain. 1997 republication of the original edition of 1890.

the Saint Martin's day stone

The legend tells that one asked Saint Martin's day, passing by Haybes, to go to Charleville to go to seek bottles and nuts. With the return, a violent one storm struck it the heights of the village, scattering and destroying the goods. Seeing a warning of the celestial power there, Saint Martin fell to knees on a stone and cried seven years lasting. Today, have can still see, on this stone, the print made by the knees and the elbows of the Saint, and also the small cavity dug by its tears which, night and day during these seven years, did not cease running.

source: Meyrac, Albert. Traditions, habits, legends and tales of the Ardennes. Editions of the Large Fountain. 1997 republication of the original edition of 1890.

Personalities related to the commune

Marie Louise Dromart

Marie-Louise Dromart, born Sandstone, is a recognized author of poetry. Born in Haybes on July 29th, 1880, it publishes its first work, heading the Veiled Face, in 1912 afterwards of the studies to the college Sévigné de Charleville.

During the First World War, its heroic attitude will be worth to him to be decorated with the Legion of Honor to the “danger of its life”. It will be also quoted twice with the order of the Nation and will receive the medal of the French Recognition. In 1925, it receives the price Archon- Despérouses decreed by the French Academy, for “the Beautiful Summer” and, in 1928 for “on my pipeaux flowered”.

She dies in Paris on October 23rd, 1937. She will be buried in the cemetery of Haybes on October 26th, in the presence of a many crowd and of Henri Dacremont, representing the Company of the Of the Ardennes Writers which will pronounce its funeral praise.

Works:

1912: The Buckled Face
1913: The sheets fall
1920: On the way of the martyrdom
1925: The beautiful summer
1928: On my pipeaux flowered
1929: In the wake of the white bird
1929: In the slipper of Cinderella
1930: The alley with the phantoms

Louis Adolphe Hamaide

Louis Adolphe Hamaide (1833-1905) is one of the first French doctors to have studied, in the details, the symptoms of the disease of the slaters, that Doctor Debieuvre will call, in his thesis supported the shortly after the Second world war, the schistose (form of silicosis). He published his first work in a work published in Paris in 1861, entitled “Of the influence of the morals causes in the diseases”. It will be also noted that the family of Hamaide is one of the most important families of Haybes.

See too

Common of the Ardennes
Station of Haybes

External bonds

official sites

Official site of the town of Haybes
Official site of the firemen of Haybes and Fumay
firemen of Fumay and Haybes, with cards of local history
Haybes on the site of INSEE
Site of the IME of Moraypré
Site of the CLIP of Haybes

sites of impassioned

site on the history of Haybes and the family Hamaide
a site perso on the commune
Internet site of the circle of history of the valley of the point and the Grounds Bordering
the old factory on the pyroligneous products
baths in Meuse
the legend of Pierre Saint Martin's day

any other business

Haybes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Haybes on the site of Quid
Localization of Haybes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Haybes on Mapquest

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