Mandailles-Saint-Julien

Mandailles-Saint-Julien is a common French, located in the department of the Cantal and the area Auvergne.

Geography

The commune occupies the top of the valley of the Jordanne in the middle of the circus of Mandailles. It is surrounded by the puy of Bassierou, Cabrespine, the puy Chavaroche, the Puy Mary, the breach of Roland, the puy of Peyre Arse, the puy Bataillouse, the Puy Griou, and Élancèze.

One reaches it by three secondary roads:

D17, it starts from Aurillac, crosses the valley of the Jordanne to join the Pas Peyrol with the foot of the Puy Mary. This road is an access road towards Falgoux, Dienne, Cheylade. For wintry time it is closed with circulation.

D46, of short distance, it connects the Croix of cheules, intersection of five destinations, the road of the peaks, Velzic, Saint-Cirgues-with-Jordanne, Marmanhac.

D317, hyphen enters the valleys of the Jordanne and the Cère, more particularly, Mandailles and Saint-Jacques-of-Blats the. It passes by the Col of Pertus to the foot of Elancèze. Until 1979, it was only one local road connecting the villages of Larmandie and Fournol, but also various pasturages and mountains of the commune. After the study of the Bridge-and-roadways and the financing of the General advice of the Cantal, D317 was built by stages, making the communications much easier between the two valleys.

The commune is made up of two principal boroughs, Saint-Julien-of-Jordanne (893 meters) and Mandailles (924 meters); but also of several villages, hamlets and localities spreading out on the side of the mountains. ( See Villages and hamlets of the commune)

According to secondary road 17, the Jordanne the cross-piece. The river takes its source on the heights of the commune, more precisely with the collar of Pulls up. Jordanne passes Mandailles and Saint-Julien leaving a trace to his toponym.

History

The commune of Mandailles-Saint-Julien is relatively young, it was born on December 1st, 1972 by order of the prefect, fusion of Mandailles and Saint-Julien-of-Jordanne.

The borough of Mandailles dates from the 12th century; it concerned the monastery of Aurillac. The territory of the commune is occupied in entirety by farms, more particularly the breeding of bovines and some rare dairy productions. During very a long time, the principal income of these exploitations was the cheese-making production; the manufacture of the Cantal. The circus of Mandailles is spotted many Burons more or less maintained pilot this prosperous surface. On the commune, there is an important forest field composed of beeches, ashes and some oaks, medium which one sees leaving the most gigantic rocks.

With the S, its population emigrates towards Paris, delivering mainly to industry metals and hotel trade, which brings in the commune, more particularly with Mandailles, a certain ease. At the time of walks in the borough and the villages of Mandailles, it is frequent to observe splendid masonries. The example is this imposing house at the entry of the Farmhouse, moreover the inhabitants call it “the castle of Cheylus” of the surname owner until the end of the years 1990.

The inhabitants do not have really a name. All at least in French, because in patois they are masonries. In Mandailles are the " Mandaillaïrs " and in Saint-Julien " Los pèquas the moon " , in French " moon fishermen ". This name their comes from the toponym of their village. Jordanne crosses the borough and forms under the bridge a small reserve (in patois a gourgue ). The fallen night, in water reflects the moon and says being fished, from where the name of the inhabitants.

During decades and transmitted generations in generations, was present a certain competition between the inhabitants of Mandailles and of Saint-Julien-of-Jordanne. Being able to be a scene of the film the War of the buttons , oldest can tell this anecdote. The children of the two villages met in the convent of Mandailles to receive catechism. At the exit, the Mandaillaïrs accompanied back with stone " blows; Los pèquas the moon " to the bridge of Garnerie, old limiting of the two communes. Today, is well far this animosity. But nevertheless, the municipal council takes care well not to derogate from these habits, to name an assistant of the mayor in each village and to take care of an equity in his decision makings.

During very a long time, the hard winters returned the valley of the Jordanne in cul-de-sac and this insulating fact of any communication the inhabitants of the commune returning being wary them… Also far is the family ties where geographical distance, the native will be always welcome, but station with him, “the foreigner” who wants to settle; he will have to prove reliable.

Some traditions percists, the common one counts two churches, with Mandailles and the other in Saint-Julien. When an inhabitant dies out, at once the learned news, the bumblebee is sounded. Then each day, until its ground setting and with highest of the mountains, the bells with any flight will be fairont to hear. Still after the second world war, if the late one were owner of a farm, the men made mourning, but also the animals. The Salers cows of the farm, carrying sonnailles, saw themselves removing the leaf; and the bees locked up in their buckled hive of a black crepe.

Administration

After the fusion of the two communes, the Town hall was instituted in Mandailles within a single building with the old school. To Saint-Julien is also present a single masonry gathering old the town hall and school. On the frontages, the inscriptions of the republican institutions recall to the memories. Today the two courses of school are quiet. In Saint-Julien the children joined Mandailles in 1987 to be definitively transferred to Lascelles about 2005.

The Farmhouse, it is allowed to observe the old office of the stations, a house on floor, property of the commune, supporting in frontage an enamelled plate which points out the surface of postal and telecommunications authorities. At the same time as the teacher, the receiver deserted the village. Very a long time an agent of the stations, office distributer of Lascelles, carried out the reception of the office, then with the wire of time it became a permanence of two afternoon per week. In 2004-2005, Mandailles does not have escaped with the reorganization of La Poste. After this closing, the single grocer of the village is given the responsability to manage the post office.

After his election in March 2001, the municipal council of the time proposes his adhesion with the Communauté of agglomeration of the basin of Aurillac (CABA) which was quickly accepted.

Lascelles, bond: Lascelle (error of drafting of the toponym)

Demography

In 1874, Mandailles and Saint-Julien counted almost 1.100 inhabitants. Like the whole of the department of the Cantal, these two communes knew an emigration. Especially towards Paris, inflating the quota of the Auvergnats of Paris, for one seasonal period then final returning to the country only to seek women and husband, but reforwarding children within the feeder family until her adolescence.

At the beginning of the century, all the houses and until after the second world war, are inhabited. The schools gathered each one more than 50 children and a couple of teachers.

The First World War unfortunately did not forget these two villages. The war memorials, supporting their sad list, upright at the edge of the secondary road call with its memory.

The " Baby-boom " according to war a renewal with the population gives again, but this generation leaves Mandailles and Saint-Julien to settle, as a majority, in the basin of Aurillac.

Today remains nothing any more but one generation born of the years 1930 to 1940. It is deplorable to notice the major part of the closed houses. In wintry time, where the " Tiple " blow, hamlets are desert.

Villages and hamlets of the commune

alantours of Mandailles , its borough with the Farmhouse, Bardugué, Massoubro, Louradou, Larmandie, Fournol, Lasteyrie, Liadouze, Benech, Raymond, Rudez, Lajarrige, Lacoste .

alantours of Saint-Julien , his borough, Boudie, Felgeadou, Aubusson, Garnerie, Talabre, Anterieux, Curadit, the Dirty ones, Perruchez, Laveissière, Lesveissière, Lestival, the Field, Reveilladie .

Economy

See too

Common of the Cantal

Sources

Our ancestors auvergnats, immigration auvergnate in Brittany , Serge Duigou, Editions Undertow, Quimper, 2004. migratory movement which left the Cantal towards Brittany to the {{sp-|XVIII|E|and|XIX|E}} S - and in particular of Mandailles with Benech, Chapsal, Estival, etc

Guide of the traveller of the Cantal , Henri DURIF, Chantillian Library, republication of 1874.

Cities & villages of Cantal 1900-1930 Memories of Yesterday , Louis TAURANT, Editions Of Borated, 1999.

Cantal formerly , Christian MARCHI, editions HORVATH, 1993.

With reading

people of the valley , Georges RIBES, Edition De Borrée, 2002.

External bonds

Mandailles-Saint-Julien on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mandailles-Saint-Julien on the site of INSEE
Mandailles-Saint-Julien on the site of Plane Quid
of Mandailles-Saint-Julien

District council of Auvergne
General advice of the CANTAL
the Community of agglomeration of the Basin of Aurillac (CABA)
" Passion" cantal; '' Site of information on the Cantal ''
Site of information on the Great site of Puy Mary
Géoportail, cartography and photography by satellite

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