Louvergny

Louvergny is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne. The inhabitants of Louvergny are Marinettes.

Geography

Louvergny is located at the borders of the Argonne on prejurassic peaks which separate the department into two geologically. A large forest extends between Louvergny with the south and Omont and Vendresse in north. Territory, which counts a great number of sources, including two laundrettes in the village even, is sprinkled by the brook of the Meadows which feeds the Lac of Bairon in the south-east of the village.
Louvergny is to 5 km of the Chesne, 8 km of Tourteron and 17 km of Pitch-Terron.

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1851 & 1866-1999

History

Some indices let think that the village has a rather high antiquity, would be this only the Gallic root * vern- (the Aulne) that some find in its name. Others proposed to form the toponym starting from the Germanic name Leubrannos followed by the suffix - iacum. It is possible also that the Villa Loeium mentioned in an old charter of the county of Rethel indicates Louvergny. But they are only assumptions. The village really enters the history only to the whole beginning of the 13th century. The Latinized form of Louvergny is then variable from one document to another. At the 17th century, a local scholar, Dom Ganneron, will propose to restore Luperniacum , but this erudite repair is not nowhere attested in documentation.

During more than two centuries, local, vassal lords of the counts de Rethel, bear the name of Louvergny: Jean de Louvergny in 1234, Raymond and Estevin de Louvergny in 1322, Richard de Louvergny in 1397. It is also known them that they hold the sub-fiefs of the Arbor and Sarts.

To the 17th century, the name of Louvergny passed to a branch of the Moët family which is extinct in 1797.

Priory of Saint-Guillaume

With the locality the Abbey , it remains today nothing any more of what was formerly the first foundation guillemite in France, if not a cross known as of Saint-Guillaume placed where the chorus of the abbey church was.

The priory was created in 1249 by Jehan Ier, count of Rethel, perhaps before its departure for the great crusade of Saint-Louis. The order of Saint-Guillaume then counted a great number of monasteries in Flanders and Germany, but none in France. That of Louvergny was thus the founded first in France and remained the last until in 1643. Another priory had been founded with Montrouge in 1256, which links with the Congregation of Saint-Valve starting from 1618.

In 1643, the priory of Louvergny passes to the nuns of Sainte-Marie of Mouzon. In second half of the 18th century, the buildings became a farm exploited by notable. They are still reproduced on the Napoleonean land register before disappearing.

Church

There remains nothing any more the old Romance church of the 12th century which was located at the center of the cemetery. Threatening ruin, it was replaced in 1896 by the current church, of neo-gothic style, built at the expenses of Mr. Noiret, a rich person spinner of Rethel originating in the commune, in memory of her Hippolyte son, normalien, member of the French École of Rome, prematurely deceased with Venice. The parish is devoted to Saint-Nicaise.

To the north of the village, in a thicket in the middle of the fields, a vault of Saint-Roch recalls the virtues healers lent to the water of a source which deaf with a few meters.

Variations

There exist two isolated bodies of farm: the farm of Courtesoupe in the south and the farm of Courgillots in south-east, not far from the Lake Bairon. As for the farm of Beauséjour, on old RN 391 driving with the Chesne, it does not count any more any occupant. The old body of farm was victim of a fire a few years ago.

Castle of Touly (16th century), on the road between Louvergny and Sauville, a fire in 1900 saved only the dependences and a pigeon old man of which it does not remain any more that the base. Its most famous occupant was Louis-François de Gentil, Justice of the Peace of the canton in 1793 and mayor of Louvergny, which one says that it raised the white flag of the royalty at the time of the passage of the emigrants in 1792. The small landed proprietor was saved by the 9-Thermidor.

See too

Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

Louvergny on the chart of Cassini
Louvergny on the site of the national geographical Institute
Louvergny on the site of INSEE
Louvergny on the site of Quid
the communes closest to Louvergny
Louvergny on Viamichelin

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