Mirmande

Mirmande is a common French, located in the department of the Drome and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Located in a landscape of hills, Mirmande is a typical perched village of Drome.

Botanical village with its flowers of rubble, Mirmande counts among the 100 more beautiful villages of France.

History

Mirmande finds its origin of " mirus" (marvellous) and " mandare" (to charge with).

Called Mirmanda at the 12th century, Castrum Mirimandae at the 13th century, Mirimanda and Miremande at the 16th century and finally Mirmande with the XVIIe century.

Mentioned as of 1238, the village is an old property of Adhémar which yielded it to the bishop Valence. In the middle of the 14th century, the borough develops and a second rampart, still visible today, delimits it. The 17th century sees the village increasing out the walls, but it is at the 19th century that Mirmande develops with the sériculture (culture of the worms with silk) which makes live nearly 3.000 people.

With the decline of this economy, the village knows difficult hours: the 20th century sees the abandonment and the collapse partial of the Holy-Foy church. In addition, a law exonerating of taxes the houses without roof, of many owners who left the village make discover the houses that they still have there, so that they fall quickly in ruins. When they are repurchased, the price is fixed according to the number of tiles remained on the roof.

The village will reappear thanks to the many artists who settle there more or less durably. Andre Lhote (1885 - 1962), painter cubist and writer, contributes to the revival of Mirmande. (See below the heading " Personalities related to the village").

Today Mirmande counts 522 inhabitants.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

In 1924, the painter André Lhote discovers the village then about abandoned. The majority of the houses are in ruins. Lhote will acquire of the one of them, still in good state, and will come every year to install a " there; academy of été". It will contribute to the rebirth and the safeguard of the village. During the occupation, many painters, among whom one counts Marcelle Rivier, Alexandre Garbell, Pierre Palué, found refuge at André Lhote and Mirmande became a very alive place of contemporary artistic creation. In 1948, André Lhote will succeed in making register the Holy-Foy church with the inventory of the historic buildings.
Marcelle Rivier as for it, settled in Mirmande definitively and lived there nearly 50 years. It is buried there.
Haroun Tazieff, celebrates it volcanologist, was the mayor of Mirmande of 1979 with 1989. Under its impulse the classified village profits from a protection zone from the urban architectural heritage and landscape (ZPPAUP). Extensions of the classified site take place in 1975 and 1976.

See too

Common of Drome

External bonds

Mirmande on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mirmande on the site of INSEE
Mirmande on the site of Quid
Localization of Mirmande on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Mirmande on Mapquest
Tourist bureau on Mirmande

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