Herdsmen

Geography

The origin of the name of the hamlet, would be the herdsmen who made a halt there while going from Normandy to Paris to sell their animals. The pond located in the center of the hamlet, opposite the bar-restaurant made it possible oxen to be watered.

Herdsmen occupies a plate with approximately 160 meters of altitude, then is deeply notched by the valley of the Bièvre which separates it from the plate of Satory. The valley of the Beaver is protected by a site registered since May 4th, 1972 and a site classified since July 7th, 2000.

The source of the Beaver is in the hamlet of Herdsmen to 134 meters of altitude.

To the exit of Herdsmen the course of the river crosses the four ponds of the Mine: the pond Directs, the pond of the Fox Mill, the pond of the Mine and the pond of Valley-in Or.

History

The site of Herdsmen was already inhabited with the Neolithic , approximately 4.000 years before JC. These first inhabitants left hundreds of vestiges such as arrows, flint scrapers, polished axes, knives… These parts were discovered in 1952, in edge of Satory. Certain parts are preserved today at the museum of national archeology installed in the Château of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.

According to the abbot Jean Lebeuf (1687 - 1760), the inhabitants of Herdsmen, far away from the church Saint-Victor of the Center Village, obtained on May 2nd, 1553 of the priest Geoffroy Barbereau, to build with their expenses a vault. That Ci will be devoted to Notre-Dame and holy Barbe. Geoffroy Barbereau gave his agreement subject to a share not to sing there the office which the day of Holy-Bores and in addition that the inhabitants of Herdsmen come to Saint-Victor, at the time of great religious holidays. The Lebeuf abbot announces that there remain only ruins of this vault, and a place says “the field of the vault”.

The firm Herdsmen belonged to the Collège of Walk, then it was sold with the Collège of Montaigu. During the integration of Guyancourt in the park of Versailles, it became a Royale farm. Those are then farmers of the King who manage it: Thomas Piot in 1707, Charles Thomas Piot in 1750, Jean Thomas Piot in 1782 then Louis Bedier in 1783. During the Revolution, the Oberkampf industrialist repurchased the farm, in September 1795, in order to control the source of the Beaver. After the bankruptcy of Oberkampf, the farm is sold. One finds between 1861 and 1872, Ferdinand Lebeau as farm which was also mayor of Guyancourt. It is in 1987, that the exploitation ceased, Mr Hue in was then the owner. Today in 2007, the buildings are rented at a private company of park

The underground aqueduct connecting by gravity the pond of Saint-Quentin to Versailles crosses the hamlet of Herdsmen. During work of the footbridge pedestrian, in the years 1990, connecting the districts of the Willows and Herdsmen, that Ci was updated. Besides this explains the name of the gardens of the acqueduc located just after the footbridge in the district of the Willows.

The Battery of Herdsmen, was built in 1879, in the vicinity immediate of the hamlet. This battery accommodated approximately 200 soldiers between 1889 and 1933, then the cigognards i.e. the factory workers Hispano Suiza installed in the enclosure of the old battery and the grounds bordering between 1933 and 1990. The hamlet of Herdsmen will always receive in its trade, whose celebrates it grocer bar, these soldiers and workmen.

Personalities related to Bouviers

Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738 - 1815), was a naturalized industrialist of German origin French. There remained famous to have founded the royal manufacture of printed cottons of Jouy-in-Josas where the fabric of Jouy was manufactured. The 26 Fructivor of year III, Oberkampf became purchaser of the old royal farm Herdsmen, his objective being to control the water quality of the Beaver whose source was on the grounds of this farm.

Jean Roger Allviger and Jean Lanot ; in Robert wood, a Stèle is set up in memory of Jean Lanot and Jean Roger Allviger shot on August 23rd, 1944 by the Nazis. This place of memory is located at the site where were summarily carried out these two resistant members of the French Forces of the interior. Jean Lanot had 22 years and Jean Roger Allviger 25 years. The towns of Guyancourt and Paris were released two days later on August 25th, 1944.

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