Jemappes

Jemappes is a section of the Belgian city of Mons located in Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut.

''' Jemappes, Jemmappes, Jemmape ''' or ''' Jemappe ''' is also the name of one of the nine joined together departments (1795-1814).

Etymology

This village found its name in the special situation which it occupies on banks of the Haine and of the Trouille. It is indeed, in the center of its territory, that the two rivers meet. As of VIIe century, the village is indicated under varied terms, but having a whole an identical origin. One said: Gamapium, Gamapia, Gemapna, Jemappes, etc, terms in which one finds two similar radicals, Gam, Jem which want to say gemelli, Gemini, twins and appia, appe which means water or better water. The union of the two radicals wants to thus mark double water, two water. The history knew several orthographies before determining the current one which is Jemappes: Jemmape, Jemappe, Jemmappes, Jemmappe, Jemapes… The French always write it with two " m" with the result that they pronounce it " jémap".

History

Jemappes formed formerly a Seigneurie which was allotted to the Count de Hainaut as secular abbot and high solicitor of the chapter of Holy-Waudru. Jemappes formed a hereditary town hall which belonged to the families of the Mound of Jemappes, Beaurieu, Vertaing, Griffon, Masnuy, etc the charter of franknesses and freedoms of Jemappes dates from the April 16th 1328.

The battle of Jemappes

The November 6th 1792, the common one was the theater the Bataille of Jemappes, famous in France for the victory of Dumouriez.

See also: Battle of Jemappes

At the edge of Hatred, French soldiers covered with let us haillons, fanaticized by the enthusiasm of their revolutionary convictions run to the attack of the Austrian cuttings off howling to full lungs the anthem of the Marseillais. The bayonets étincellent with extreme rifles; the standards in scraps claquent with the wind frisquet morning; the drums rageusement beat the load; the guns inlassablement spit their grapeshot boxes, of the columns of bitter smoke gently float in the serene sky. Irresistibly, the French collapse the enemy rows, terribly decimate them, finally reject them on the other side of the hill in a beautiful precursory disorder of a retirement as lamentable as pitiful. The Austrian duke of Saxony-Teshen, the Belgian generals Clerfayt and Baulieu undergo, in Jemappes, one crushing demolished; the doors of the provinces '' Belgium '' are opened with the revolution.

In independent Belgium

In 1857, Jemappes was the theater of particularly violent riots following the vote of the “law of the convents” by a room mainly catholic. The opponents with the law expressed then violently in all the country (Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Liege), but it is in Jemappes that the most serious incident took place: the demonstrators ransacked then reflect fire with the convent of brothers of the Christian doctrines and the monks had to flee to escape popular anger.

End of the 19th century, Jemappiens are assembled towards Mons with forks to protest against the statute of the workman. They were received by the Mons civic guard at the level of the Tubular bridge, near the current roundabout of Large-Near. Forks against rifles, one includes/understands easily who gained… This fratricidal riot gave its origin to the ancestral hatred of Jemappiens towards the Mons, blurred nowadays with the young generations. It was often materialized by inscriptions brancardées in the village such as " Nuts in Mons! " (especially when one spoke about the fusion of the communes) or celebrates it " Lives of Jumap', with-low the Mons! " whose song was written and who is still sung in the mediums or pure and hard families of Jemappiens, once again, seldom old of less than 50 years…

Curiosities

A monument, the Cock of Jemappes, commemorates the battle. It is about a Obélisque, surmounted metal Statue of a cock, high several meters. It was inaugurated in 1911, at the time of the Mons congress of association the French Friendships . The cock, turned towards the East, nargue the Germanic tribes which lost the battle. A gun of the battle is very close to him. A city was built all around the monument.

N.B.: The cock is a French cock because it has the two feet on the ground. The Walloon cock always has a raised leg.

One of the war memorials is King Albert 1st Helmeted, located along the Avenue which bears its name. Because it is out of bronze, it was stolen in the night from Friday the 18th to Saturday, May 19, 2007. Probably melted to bring back a few euros in this metallurgical crisis period, it made the happiness of a scrap merchant but the indignation of all the population.

Cavalcade of Jemappes

Definition

Folk demonstration more than centenary, it acts of a procession currently made up of two processions: one carnavalesque, cavalcade, the other of Gilles. The date changed much through the centuries and it is only into 1906 that the date was fixed at the Pascal weekend. She thus celebrated her centenary in 2006 at the time of a demonstration enriched by tens of groups in all kinds, coordinated by Yves Coumans, the realizer of Zinneke Parade of Brussels. It is called " cavalcade" because there were in the beginning enormously horses, which is again respected since the hundredth.

Participating companies

The companies of Gilles, which contain in all and for all more than 500 Gilles, are, by order of seniority: the royal company of the Gilles de Jemappes (called " Cagniots"), the royal company of the Gilles tradesmen (at the origin, tradesmen of Jemappes exclusively), the juniors Gilles de Jemappes (at the origin, children of the Tradesmen), Buddies and Jovial fellows. It should be noted that a company of Peasants, coldly created in the years 2000 was dissolved in 2007, that the Sailors (as in Binche) made an appearance in the Nineties, than the Bitches (company of women in light behavior launching of candies in crowd kept by police chiefs of group as a rower) appeared for the last time in 2006 and than a group of harlequins would be in preparation.

Festivities

Fatty Monday, day of the carnival, the companies leave: it is the first soumonce. The second and last take place Palm Sunday. The Tradesmen leave third once, between the two soumonces official. Easter Sunday, the companies leave as a transvestite, the Easter Monday, it is the day of the gille and of the cavalcade and Tuesday, it is the " raclot" or the last exit. This day is chosen by Cagniots to burn their bumps, the Juniors burn a gille illustrated by a mannequin and the Tradesmen finish the carnival towards 2:00 of the morning by dancing the " pierrots" (on the first topic of the " basic passage " , the Gilles and the public hop on the spot in an excellent environment).

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  • Jemappes is the third carnival of Gilles after Binche, inevitably, and Louvière.
  • All the photographs of the cavalcade (more than thousand) are available on the site of Jemappes, spaces galleries, which constitutes an enormous work supported by only one person, the webmaster.
  • After one dark period, the cavalcade knew a bienfaitrice rebirth thanks to its 100e birthday, facilitating the impulse of the Town of Mons and a dynamic team.
  • It is the Carnavalcade Committee which took again the organization of the demonstrations.
  • Under impulse of UCI, union of tradesmen and independent of Jemappes, brotherhood of Captains and Ladies of Place (innovation which takes again in fact an old tradition), the afternoon of Saturday of Easter animates while moving in all the city in music and tie of the blows of gun. It is besides about the name of the drink which they offer to taste. They are equipped out of tricorn and jacket or cantinières, faithful to the costumes of the " Battle of Jemmapes ".
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Anecdote

In the Letters of my Mill , Alphonse Daudet, evoking the mill of Valmy, names it by error mill of Jemmapes . Is this really error? In Paris, the Quays of Jemmapes and Quai of Valmy face on both sides channel Saint Martin.

Twinning

Jemappes is twinned with the common Frenchwoman of Briare, at the edge of the Loire, in Burgundy. Common point: the two communes have a " Bridge-Canal".

Personalities jemappiennes

Gallery

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