Marle

Marle is a Ville of France, located in the department of the Aisne.

Geography

The surrounding area is called the Marlois. The city is also called Marle-on-Greenhouse. Marle is surrounded by fields, Non far from there is Pierrepont with its pond S, the rivers the Vilpion, and the Serre pass by Marle.

Demography

Administration

History

Hamlets, places and monuments

Gothic Church
War memorial the, surmounted of a cock
Museum of Cruel Times over the period mérovingienne.

the museum is located in a zone of mills dating from the Moyen-âge. It is open the afternoon for the period of the beautiful days. It is located in an archaeological park where were reconstituted a farm mérovingienne and a village frankly. The farm as well as the necropolis are reconstituted starting from excavations carried out during 25 years on the site of Goudelancourt-lès-Pierrepont. The reconstitution of the frank village was carried out starting from excavations led to Juvincourt-and-Damary. The team of the museum applies the principles of the experimental Archéologie. This work of reconstitution was completed under the control of a scientific committee chaired by Patrick Périn, Conservateur as a Chief of the Musée of national archeology of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. The museum organizes several demonstrations: Days Mérovingiennes (reconstitution of various activities of Country S at the time mérovingienne) and a Festival of Alive History in June which gathers troops of reconstituteurs of various times.

Buildings

the house of city

Old town hall located close to the church until 1921, it was moved on the place of the mound to release the church and to create the place of the war memorial 1914-1918. Built in 1628, the building was certain architectural, one admired there a beautiful pediment of style Louis XIII. It was Jean Pierre Faucheux who gave this house to the city. An inscription pointed out to this gift “Mr Jean faucheux Pierre, alderman, remaining with the attic with salt made build says it town hall 1739”. Here the term should be taken to build in the direction to increase or repair since the building existed for a long time. Unfortunately, there does not remain large any more thing of the beauty of this house, it was broken after the second world war to install there the vehicles of the body of sappers firemen.

the Town hall

Old room of district court was built in 1851. The Mayor of the time, Mr. Desains made take on September 6th, 1850 by the municipal council a deliberation for the construction of a court for the district court to build on the site of the attic with salt, in consequence of the displacement of the house of city after the 1st world war. The low part of this building was used thereafter for the current town hall (room of the marriages and the council more of the contiguous offices). The high part was used a long time as village hall. This place was called before place of the attic with salt, then places market at the horses and finally place François Mitterrand. One can also suppose that the old medieval market burned by the Spaniards at the XVIIème century was at this place.

the Old people's home or hospital

With the Middle Ages the leprous ones were isolated with the MALADRYE or MALADRERIE at the end from the suburb St Martin (after the new landscape cemetery). This establishment was founded about 1250 by Enguerrand IV of COUCY. By order of Louis XIV this leper-house was united with the hospital held by the “girls excessively pious women of Saint Benoite” street of the castle in 1702. The municipal council took on July 13rd, 1846 on the initiative of Mr. Desains, Maire and doctor of the hotel God, a deliberation giving an favorable opinion for the emergency construction of a new establishment on the site of grounds to acquire apart from the old city. It is the current, increased and humanized old people's home, later, under the mandates of Paul Brucelle and Pierre Touron.

the recreational center Jean Mermoz called versatile room

commonly

Construction decided in 1969, rue René Toffin, the unit Jean Mermoz is made up with rez of roadway of a building sheltering the barracks of sappers firemen, of the room of the club of judo, a meeting room called Pierre Brasseur and several parts reserved for the service of maternal protection and infantile. On the floor, is the big room of the festivals of the commune called room Simone Signoret and her dependences (kitchen, cloakrooms…) as well as a small room of meeting called room Louis Jouvet. It was inaugurated on February 8th, 1975 by Paul Brucelle, Maire of Marle and his municipal council in the presence of the deputy of the district Robert Aumont and the general adviser of the canton of Marle Henry Loncq. (see photography of the inauguration)

the public swimming pool
the barracks of gendarmerie
the house Victor Hugo

Places

the place of the mound

It is on this place located in front of the strengthened door of the castle-extremely that the Lord of Marle made justice “high” (charter of 1174). Low justice was reserved to the mayeurs, to aldermen and jurats. Uhlans in 1914 made gather the population on this place to inform it of the restrictions of freedom and other instructions of the Prussian army. In 1940, their fathers made in the same way at the same place.

the place of the church in the past place of the market

It is there that were held the fairs, markets and frank markets granted by special privileges delivered by the kings of France. There was on this place a large stone cross (the cross of the market) moved with the cemetery St Martin on the tomb of the priests of Marle.

faucheux the Ernest place

Point out the former mayor of Marle (1925-1940). On this place the " was; Français" coffee; (see old postcard)

Roads

the avenue Charles de Gaulle

In the past street of the suburb St Nicolas, leading to this avenue, we find: - the street of the pit of the huguenots, outcome to an old career where people were buried belonging to the religion reformed at the XVI century. - the street of cold banks, it is a cliff which was attended as of highest antiquity by the men of prehistory. One found there some tools and of the weapons out of cut flint, axes, punches, arrowheads. - the dead end of the red bridge, obligatory crossing point to cross Vilpion, on the bridge of the same name. The princess of Lamballe in escape, failed to drown little time there before being cut the throat of by the revolutionists of 1789. The suburb St Nicolas (or Neuville Soubz Marle) contained the church St Nicolas destroyed with the Revolution in 1793 as well as an old cemetery contiguous to the church.

the street of the feeding trough or the prison

It is located at the foot of the tower of the mutte dating from the fortifications of Enguerrand II about 1225. The feeding trough was located meadows of the old mill. According to the legend, the prison was located between the lane of the sighs and that of the repentances.

the street of the lease

Draw its name from a ground called “lease”; it was reserved for the “esbatements children”. This street located apart from the enclosure of the city and built in all its length drawn from the ditches during its digging.

the street of the block

Point out the pilori where one exposed the criminals, the defrauders, the smugglers and false-sauliers. It was a stone bench (located at the angle of the old post office, destroyed by fire in 1918) known as house of the alderman.

the street Mud pit Jean Louis Andre Bourbier

Pierre Louis Andre Bourbier, general of Empire, born in 1774 in Marle, killed with the battle of Eylau to the head of its regiment the 11th dragons. Its house was at the end of the street, behind the current town hall (old Painvin house). This street was called before street of the Bério well.

the street of the vault St Nicolas
the street Debrotonne

Point out Albert Debrotonne, born in 1792 in Malaise, close to Tavaux. He was a long time mayor of Marle, general adviser, president of the agricultural meeting, appointed into 1846,1848,1849,1852,1857. He is deceased in 1858. One of its ancestors had built the post office building of the suburb St Nicolas (vis-a-vis the Faucheux place).

the street Desains

Must its name with Antoine Desains, Doctor of medicine, doctor of the epidemics. Vice-president of the Council of District during 21 years, Maire of Marle of 1831 to 1854 goes back to his death. One owes him the widening of the streets of the city, the establishment of a plan of alignment, the construction of the current town hall, the construction of a new old people's home and the establishment of a market to the grains (in importance, the second of the department).

the street of the ditches

With a similar origin, it is out of the enclosing walls.

the street of the huchette

Close to pharmacy, a retaining wall contained stones appearing to be remains of the door Our lady. Their section represented parts of posts or blind arcades of style XIII or XIV century.

the street Lalouette

And not street of the lark, commemorates the memory of Mr. Lalouette Fossier which made important gifts with the commune, like for the martyrdom St Nicolas, the vault St Nicolas and the release of the place of the monument.

the street Lehault

Evoke a family of notaries which resided during several centuries at Marle. One of them held a kind of newspaper of the facts to the 17th century. It is a historical mine of information for the researchers.

the street Cyrille Liébert

Old street of the mill of the plain, bears from now on the name of Cyrille Liébert, former mayor of Marle deceased in 1956.

the street of the suburb St Martin

Located out of the walls, it is an old parish distinct from that of the city. It appears in the weapons of the city in the shape of a tower, like that of the neuville under Marle called later suburb St Nicolas. The suburb St Martin included/understood the MALADRERIE (asylum for the leprous ones) the church St Martin in the old current cemetery, the community of the abbey of Foigny the BRIDGES of the Madeleine. The vault of the cemetery St Martin destroyed by French artillery during the release of the city in 1918 was the old heart of the church St Martin.

the street Louise Michel

Louise Michel (May 29th, 1830, Vroncourt-the-Coast, Haute-Marne - January 9th, 1905, Marseilles), alias Enjolras, is militant an anarchist and one of the major figures of the Commune of Paris. First to raise the black flag, it popularizes this one within the anarchistic movement…

the street of the mound or street of the castle and the old Hospital

The hospital was transferred for a time in the house of teaching of the hospital from the sisters from holy Benoîte in 1717 place de la mound. The hospital is the one of oldest institutions marloises, as of the Middle Ages, of the bequests were made to him.

the street of the mills

It extends under wood from the brothers, it relates to two very old seigneuriaux mills on the greenhouse.

the street Notre Dame

It is one of oldest of the high city, it owes its name with the piety of our ancestor and also with the old strengthened door which defended laccès on this side. A statue of the virgin had been placed on the high part. To enter the city by this door Notre Dame, the drivers of the heavy vehicles and of fit with body were to call upon remounts being given the stiffness of the slope. These horses rented themselves with the inn of the gold sun, located at the site of the farm which is with the bottom of the street Notre Dame.

the street Furrier in the past street of the postern

Point out a large benefactor of the country, Louis Nicolas Pelletier who made important gifts at the city, the schools, the sappers firemen, the church, the hospital; he bequeathed his rich person library to évêché of Soissons. He is deceased in 1869. Street of the postern: On the ramparts the place indicated where this one opened: west coast of the defensive wall, with the top of the wood of the brothers (currently filled rubble).

the street of the door Marie

Its name must with the door which opened on the old way of Laon. The vestiges are still visible as well as the rampart and the old covered way which ended in it.

the street Sérurier

Its name must to the Count Louis bores Charles Sérurier, cousin of the Marshal, Pair of France, extraordinary envoy and Ambassador plenipotentiary of Napoleon 1st in the United States, then sent in the courses of Belgium and Holland, large Officer of the Legion of Honor, born in Marle on April 7th, 1775, deceased in 1860.

the street of Signier

Evoke Alexandre de Signier, governor of Marle which was distinguished with the seat from our city by Spanish on January 27th, 1658. The defendant was congratulated by the king and the queen. The Notre Dame church preserved her epitaph traced on a black flagstone in the low southern part against the wall.

the street of tombelle the

Evoke the Celtic hillock and also the detached stronghold of the field of Marle; it had its own territory and also a vault dedicated to St Anne. The cross of tombelle was the usual appointment of the procession of the rogations. One made there a prolonged station accompanied by a pastoral lunch on grass.

the street of the precision balance

Its name must with a trap door which defended the entry of the Notre Dame door. This street was prolonged in the current street of Signier.

Personalities related to the commune

Thomas de Marle
List of the lords of Coucy
Thévenin, celebrates botanist of the 14th century.
Jean Garbe, doctor of the king, died in 1300.
Jean Clement, senior of the medical college of Paris in 1396.
Jean de Marle, another doctor of the king in 1382.
Henri Corgne, the chancellor of Marle, also called Henri de Marle , massacred in the prisons of Paris in 1418.
Jean de Marle (the uncle), general Abbot of Prémontré in 1381.
Jean de Marle (the nephew), general Abbot of Prémontré in 1424.
Jean of Marle (the uncle), general Abbot of Prémontré in 1381.
Guillaume de Marle, senior of the church of Senlis.
Robert de Bar, general and minister of Charles VI. He perishes in Azincourt in 1415 when it ordered the rear-guard.
Jean of Luxembourg, one of the principal characters of the court of Burgundy, killed in Morat in 1476.
Jean Dagneau, said the captain Pin, it made Talbot captive with the battle of Patay.
Mathieu Beuvelet, author of several writings estimated for the instruction of the ecclesiastics, died in 1656.
François Wiard, founder of the seminar St Nicolas of the Hanging-post in Paris, died in 1664.
Claude Wafflard, doctor and prosator of the 17th century.
Jean Louis Andre General Bourbier, of Empire.
Emile Coët, Historian.
Felix Witkowski, Footballer.
Jean Pierre-Bloch, General adviser.
Jacques Chaurand, professor with the Sorbonne.
Rene Toffin, historian.
Sebastien Cauet, Animateur of TF1 lived part of its youth in this village; its family always lives there.

Associative, sporting and cultural activities

Marle links its sports associations under the name of " Marle Sports" , under a single color, Orange. Marle Sports includes for example: " Marle Basket" and " Marle Football"

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