Maffliers

Maffliers is a common French, located in the department of the Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France. Its inhabitants are called Maffliérois (be).

Geography

The commune is located at approximately 30 km in the north of Paris, with orée of the Forêt of Isle-Adam. This old aristocratic village has beautiful fields of huntings and charming manors.

The commune is served by a station located at Montsoult.

History

The name comes is Germanic lar , moor, and of farmhouse , mount; or perhaps of maf , mount, and of flare , sheets or flowers.

The place is mentioned in a charter of 832 like property of the Abbaye of Saint-Denis. Bouchard V of Montmorency founds there in 1163 the priory Grandmontain de Merret-les-Maffliers which knew the decline and was removed in 1772, then, sold and transformed. In 1602, the ground becomes the property of Jean Forget, president of the Parlement of Paris, and the seigniory is set up in baronnie. Since the years 1960, the village becomes gradually rurbain, but preserves farms. The village was illustrated by the painter Madeleine Luka who was born to with it.

Heraldic

Administration

Maffliers belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Écouen, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Monuments and places of visit

The church Our-Lady-of-fields was built at the 15th century and was rebuilt in 1554. The current Chorus of style of the second rebirth is allotted to Philibert Delorme Tomb of Jean FORGET baron of maffliers 1611 Rule of NR D of the Fields out of Wooden of XIVe century

Famous characters

  • the father Joseph (1577 - 1638) founder of the girls of the Martyrdom 3eminence grise of Richelieu was lord of Maffliers
  • Madam de Staël, girl of Necker minister of Louis XVI lived a middle-class house with Maffliers where she wrote Delphine
  • Benjamin Constant very often remained in her friend Mrs. de Staël
  • the Duchesse of Berry took refuge in Maffliers with the Castle of the Talleyrand-Périgord]] 1832 * [[Duchess of Abrantès|Laure Junot-with Abrantès]] wife of general JUNOT also remained with the castle of Maffliers where it met [[Honore de Balzac|Balzac]] which helped it to write its MEMORIES * [[Honore de Balzac|Balzac]] remained in [[1829]]. It locates the intrigue of '' at it [[Good-bye! (Balzac)]] '' ([[1830]]). It wrote '' there [[the House of the cat-which-ball]] '' * A Goriot family whose representative was city council man inspired [[Honore de Balzac]] for the novel '' [[the Goriot Father]] '' * Madeleine Lukas painter lived there all his life * Michel Legrand type-setter ('' [[umbrellas of Cherbourg]] '') remained a few years there to ==Voir aussi== ===Liens interns=== * [[Forest of Isle-Adam]] * [[Common of the Val-d'Oise]] ===Notes, sources and références=== ===Liens externes=== * [http://maps.google.fr/?t=h&om=1&ie=UTF8&ll=49.074766,2.313137&spn=0.04588,0.117073 Maffliers seen of the sky (Google Maps)] {{Gate Val-d'Oise}} [[Category: Commune of the Val-d'Oise]] [[ceb: Maffliers]] [[of: Maffliers]] [[in: Maffliers]] [[it: Maffliers]] [[nl: Maffliers]] [[pl: Maffliers]] [[vo: Maffliers
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