Lyons-the-Forest

Lyons-the-Forest is a common French, located in the department of the the Eure and the area High-Normandy. It counts among " Most beautiful villages of France".

Geography

History

The Middle Ages

936 First mention of a ducal residence with Lyons
1135 Died of the king of England, Henri Ier Beauclerc, with the castle of Lyons differently called Saint-Denis-in-Lyons
1189 First court of Christmas of the king Richard Ier of England
1193 Philippe Auguste occupies the city and its castle
1194 Rentré of captivity, Richard Lion-hearted obtains the restitution of Lyons
1194 - 1198 Nombreux stays of Richard in his residence of Lyons
July 1st 1202 Philippe Auguste definitively seize the strengthened city
of 1202 with 1298, Nombreux stays of the kings of France in Lyons. 3 stays attested for Philippe Auguste, 4 for Louis IX and 10 for Philippe Beautiful the. Impassioned of hunting, the kings capétiens then regard the forest of Lyons as one of most beautiful of the kingdom.
1359 - 1398 the châtellenie of Lyons belongs to the douaire of Blanche of Navarre, widow of the king Philippe VI of Valois
1403 - 1422 Douaire of Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of France
1419 the English seize Lyons

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999

Places and monuments

Vestiges of an old rural theater of Roman epoch (private property)
Vestiges of the old strengthened residence of the kings of England and kings of France of Philippe Auguste with Philippe Beautiful the (ISMH, private property)
Church Saint-Denis (ISMH) 15th century with elements XIIe /16e century. Frontage and nave in flint and sandstone checkerwork
Old hotel of the Constabulary XIIe-XVIIIe centuries (ISMH, private property being pressed on the old door of the castle of Lyons (XIIe century, ISMH) and preserving the vestiges of the old rampart (XIIe century, ISMH), to see above)
Old convent of Cordeliers 17th century: conventual building and cloister (ISMH, private property)
Town hall (ISMH) rebuilt at the end of the 18th century on older foundations sheltering the dungeons of the city formerly. With the stage, old courtroom of the bailliage.
Markets (ISMH) 17th century, restored at the end of the 18th century by the last lord of Lyons, the duke of Penthièvre

Personalities related to the commune

Henri Ier Beauclerc, king of England and wire of William the Conqueror, dies there on February 1st 1135
Enguerrand de Marigny. Resulting from the family the Gatekeeper who during the 12th century held the hereditary guard of the door (still visible vestiges on the " motte") ducal castle of Lyons.
Isaac de Benserade (1612 - 1691), poet and member of the French Academy
Maurice Ravel lived there in the years 1917 - 1922 (It completed there the Tomb of Couperin and worked there the orchestration of the Tableaux of an exposure, of Moussorgski).
Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann lived there during the years 1910 - 1930 its property was always called and is called the pasture which one finds described in several books recalling his life and his work, in the principal house a gangway is resembling a gangway of boat. It makes build on the property two other houses of which one is called house of the fisherman " with the truite".

Lyons-the-Forest accommodated the turning of film of Claude Chabrol Mrs Bovary

External bonds

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

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