Lapeyrouse-Fossat

Lapeyrouse-Fossat is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Garonne and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Lapeyrousiens.

Blazon

Blazon: Party: with the first of azure to the letter P capital of money, the second also of azure with besant of gold, constant of a money crescent; the summoned whole of a bent chief of mouths charged with three gold stars.

Geography

The commune is located geographically between the highways A62 connecting Toulouse to Bordeaux and A68 connecting Toulouse to Albi, and is close to RN 68. With the periphery of the large Toulouse metropolis (14 kilometers) it knew to preserve a framework of life of an unquestionable quality, thanks to the families present here since several generations as at those which have come to settle there for a few decades. In north, the primarily agricultural zone equipped with great land and buildings and grounds of good agronomic value, corresponding to the alluvial plain of the girou. In the south, the undulating sector of the communal territory gradually urbanized around old the Hameau X (Belloc, Engorp, Fossat, the village), and along the principal transportation routes. There remain some agricultural enclaves disseminated on compartmental very small.

Its altitude is of 213 meters. The temperature is soft there. The winds which dominate there are those of Autan and the North-West which blow there sometimes in storm.

History

Lapeyrouse-Fossat is an old village since already mentioned in 1254 like Fief of the Baronnie of Castelmaurou, instituted by the bishop of Toulouse in favor of Raimond de Castelnau. The village has a double origin. It was formed of the words Lapeyrouse and Fossat, which formerly formed two distinct communes, but which were joined together into only one on January 1st 1836. It remains little of vestiges of this time, except two Château X of style modern, of which one of the XVIIIe century.

To note the Archaeological existence of three sites S listed to date by the regional service of the archeology and for which a protection in their actual position is justified. It is about the station Gallo-Roman of Barranquet: a significant concentration of ancient Mobilier was raised in this place. The many fragments of decoration and structural components let foresee an important rural establishment; Gallo-Roman station of Stuffed: an ancient station characterized by brick S, tiles with edge, marl hardcores and many fragments of Ceramic; Gallo-Roman indices of Jouaninet: to the North-West of Jouaninet, a piece delivered bricks and some Tegulae.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The church of the Assumption 1516 and XIXe century

This church was rebuilt on the vestiges of an older church. Its first bell-tower goes back to 1530. During 270 years no notable maintenance of the building was carried out. After the revolutionary disorders, an overall restoration was essential. It was concluded, in a very slow way, between 1829 and 1848. It constitutes a quasi-rebuilding. This building is built out of red brick of the area.

The Castle of Lapeyrouse

(XVIII and XIX century) the castle is built in an immense planted park of Arbre S with the varied gasolines, comparable with those of the Jardin of the plants. To the XVIII and XIX centuries, the castle occupies an essential place in the life of the village and constitutes the head of an exploitation of several hundred hectares which largely exceeds the limits of the commune, with three roughly similar units: the Lapeyrouse-Castelmaurou group, the whole of Buissaison in the north of the communal territory and the field located on the commune of Bazus. In 1901, Mr De Bazelaire acquires of it. The castle is the property of his/her small son, Mister. De Rimonteil De Lombarés until 2006.

Personalities related to the commune

Philippe-Isidore Picot of Lapeyrouse (1744 - 1818) is Toulouse and resulting from a middle-class family enriched in the trade which reaches the nobility while becoming Capitoul. Philippe Picot inherits the field and the castle of Lapeyrouse-Fossat by his uncle. After a rather short career in the magistrature, he becomes naturalist and publishes ``the shortened history of the plants and the Pyrenees''. Professor at the Central School of the Haute-Garonne, at the École des Mines of Paris (1795), senior of the Faculty of Science and perpetual secretary of, the inscription Academy of Science and humanities of Toulouse, it also approaches the political life. He becomes the first president of the General advice of the Haute-Garonne in 1800 - 1801, mayor of Toulouse of 1800 with 1806 then appointed during the hundred days in 1815. He founds the future Natural history museum of natural history in the old monastery of the exposed Carmes and he is at the origin of the opening of the college of boys in 1806. This year there, Napoleon appoints it Baron d' Empire. His/her son, Isidore, became mayor of Lapeyrouse-Fossat in 1819 during ten years.

Toponymy

See too

Common of the Haute-Garonne
Philippe-Isidore Barb of Lapeyrouse

External bonds

Lapeyrouse-Fossat on the site of the national geographical Institute
Lapeyrouse-Fossat on the site of INSEE
Lapeyrouse-Fossat on the site of Quid
Localization of Lapeyrouse-Fossat on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Lapeyrouse-Fossat on Mapquest

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