Lalinde

Lalinde (in Occitan Linda ) ( it is necessary to pronounce Lolïndo ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Dordogne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Surface of the commune: 2770 ha, Altitude: 47m. Population 2966 h.

In 1794, the communes of Drayaux and Holy-Dove amalgamate with Lalinde .

The canton of Lalinde includes/understands 14 communes: Baneuil, Cause-of-Clérant, Couze-Saint-Face, Lalinde, Lanquais, Liorac, Mauzac, Pressignac, Saint-Agne, Saint-Capraize, Saint-Felix-in Villadeix, Saint-Marcel, Varennes, the Verdon.

History

The town of Lalinde was identified as being the antique station Diolindum of the table of Peutinger. Recent studies still strengthened the thesis of the historians of Gaulle who placed this " mansio" with Lalinde. In XIe century a parish will be created in edge of the Dordogne river, which will bear the name of Linda . In 1242, for the first time in the texts a lord of the place appears, Geoffroy of Lynde. A few years later, in 1267, a country house will be built by the king of England. It is an English knight whose ancestors had emigrated in England at the time of William the Conqueror, who will have the load of the construction of this city. It bore the name of Jean of Lynde, and this homonymy with fact of believing for a long time that this character had left his name to the city. Since the research carried out with the English files in 1990, by a local author, we know that the family of Linde lived forever on the ground périgourdin. This family appears in the county of Dorset since XIe century, it had enormous fields there.

The antique Diolindum station

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

• the current church, built between 1899 and 1902, replaced an old Romance church of XIIe century.

• Of the old country house, it does not remain any more that the door known as of Bergerac, wrongfully called carries Romaine, which dates from XIIIe century, and some fragments of the old rampart side river.
• the oldest church of the commune is located at Sainte Dove, old parish connected to Lalinde with the Revolution. It dates from XIIe century, and its cupola is the certified copy of that which the old church of Lalinde had.
• the city had a castle in its enclosure. It was completely remade to nine at the beginning of the XIXe century.
• Castle of Laffinoux or Castle of Finou, 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century, in Lalinde Holy-Dove, classified. Belonged to the XIXe century with the tragic actor Hilarion Ballande, who made there build a theater of outdoor.
• the Castle of the Moors, 17th century 18th century, with Lalinde Holy-Dove.
• the Castle of the Street, 13th century 15th century, classified, with Sauvebœuf, another section of Lalinde. Its tower is 15th century, built on an artificial feudal mound.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Lafon (Lalinde 1773 - Bordeaux, the Gironde 1846): tragic actor.

Born on September 1st, 1773, Pierre Lafon was in his time one of the most venerated tragic actors of Paris. " Beautiful Lafon" as it was called, will make shade in large Talma which will be very affected in the first times. The physical beauty and the talent of actor of Lafon, were worth innumerable successes to him near the women and in particular at Pauline Bonaparte. The last appearance of Pierre Lafon on scene goes back to 1839. It is withdrawn in Bordeaux in his daughter. He dies in 1846.

Jean Auguste Hilarion Ballande (Cuzorn, Lot-et-Garonne 1820 - Holy-Dove, auj. integrated into Lalinde 1887): tragic actor.

Hilarion Ballande was the son junior by Antoine Ballande and Elisabeth Dabland, paper maker and ironmaster in Pombié and Libos. His/her Antoine father settles in Couze in 1841, and exploits the mill of Bayac. Member of the French Theater until 1853, Hilarion resigns and leaves in round in the troop Miss Rachel.

In 1867, it creates the Company of the unknown dramatic authors which must facilitate the young authors in the representation of their works. Attempt which remains without a future. In 1869, it puts at execution the idea which will illustrate its name: Literary Mornings of Sunday . They take place with the Theater of Cheerfulness. In 1876, it takes the direction of the Dejazet Theater, and 1880 to 1883 that of the Theater of the Nations. It is withdrawn then at the age of sixty-three years in its castle of Finou to deal with vine growing and to reconstitute its vineyard destroyed by will phylloxéra. He dies at the age of sixty-seven years, on January 27th, 1887. Hilarion rests in Couze in the family vault Ballande.

the General of Riols de Fonclare (Lalinde 1859-?) : soldier.

Born on January 16th, 1859 in Lalinde, it enters to Saint-Cyr military school in 1876 when it makes career in the infantry and takes part in the campaigns of Tunisia and Tonkin. Named brigadier general on December 18th, 1914, it receives the command of a division of infantry. In 1916, it is made commander of the Legion of Honor in reward of its brilliant led to Verdun, and becomes major general on December 31st, 1916. A little later, it is high with the dignity of large Officer of the Legion of Honor.

Jean-Baptiste Lemire (Colmar, Haut-Rhin 1867 it Arrow, the Sarthe 1945): leader in this commune and type-setter.

See too

• the Dordogne (department)

• Périgord
• Common of the Dordogne
• Old communes of the Dordogne
• Castles and residences of the Dordogne