Moissac

Moissac is a common French, located in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne in area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Moissagais.

Heraldic

Mouths with the cléchée emptied cross of money gold pommetée of twelve parts, with the chief of azure charged with three flowers of gold lily.

Geography

The commune is located on the Tarn and the Trunk road 113.

History

In 1622, during a new war of religion, the city is taken by Louis XIII.

The commune also known by the name " city of the Chasselas " (of the name of a Grape of table, classifies in AOC, cultivated around by the farmers of the canton) was during the Second world war, a refuge for the important community of the scouts Jews of France (EIF). These last refugees with the Moulin of Moissac remained there during almost where left the occupation thanks in other to the kindness of the municipal authorities and the population.

Administration

Demography

Culture and inheritance

; Abbey Saint-Pierre:

Church Saint-Pierre, old Abbey church with the gate (1130), one of the chiefs of work of the Romance sculpture .
Cloister (fine of the 11th century), one of preserved best Christian Occident.

; Tubular bridge of Cacor: 356 m length, the east of Moissac, it allows the side channel the Garonne to cross Tarn.
The side Channel in the Garonne, crossing the departments of Lot-et-Garonne and Tarn-et-Garonne, built in 1847, 183 km length. It finds its origin in Toulouse and is completed with Castets-in-Dorthe. It prolonged the Canal of the South which existed between Montpellier and Toulouse. It is used today more for tourism with the batellerie.

; The Museum moissagais: It is installed in the old home of the abbots, imposing flanked construction of a crenelated tower. Two charts make it possible to appreciate the radiation of the abbey to the Moyen-âge. In the vast object, stair-well related to the history of the abbaye.
The regional art lovers will push their rise to the stage in order to discover ceramic, especially Auvillar, pieces of furniture regional of XVIIe and 18th centuries, caps moissagaises or the reconstitution of a kitchen of bottom Quercy at the 19th century.
The high vault is devoted to the religious art.

; The Markets, places of Récollets: Built in 1891 by the Architect municipal Jean Rouma, the building, inside and around the weekly Marché is held, associates with elegance hones, brick and cast iron, and its decoration of Céramique praises already the products of the soil.

; The Napoleon bridge: Decided by Napoleon ler and finished by Napoleon III, there is a sight on the quays and the Saint-Jacob bridge: heir to a medieval work, if it is not Roman, this one was arranged in revolving bridge to allow the passage of the barges formerly.

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

Moissac is on the Via Podiensis Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle.
One comes from Lauzerte. The next commune is Auvillar, famous for its round market and the Saint-Pierre church.

Leaving Moissac by the Saint-Jacob door, some jacquets crossed the Garonne out of vat with the Point, in direction of the Saint Nicolas's Day priory of the Low register. So of others preferred to cross water with Malause, all found themselves in Auvillar.

The pilgrims

the reception of the pilgrims: if they had not found place with hotel trade, they could count on the maladrery of the abbey, located close to the Saint Martin's day church, or on the other hospitals of the city moissagaise, from which one was placed under the term of Saint-Jacob.

the brotherhood Saint-Jacob de Moissac.
Moissac is one of the rare cities of via Podiensis where one finds mention of a brotherhood of Saint-Jacob. This association appears tardily, in 1523. At that time, mentalities are not any more what they could be in the middle of the Middle Ages, when the fellow-members founded or managed hospitals.
The fellow-member-pilgrims of Moissac seem folded up on themselves. Their essential activities are the celebration of the Saint-Jacob, mass, procession and… banquet, as well as the assistance with the funeral of the fellow-members morts.
Moissac, like Cahors, had remainder a parish dedicated to the apostle. For five years, an international center of lodging has accommodated more than 5.000 pilgrims per annum. It is about Carmel, historical building flanked in overhang of the city, entirely restored and entrusted for its management by the city to the Alpin club. There they find rooms common or independent, rooms of rest and meeting, services (wash-house), a kitchen equipped common. The price of day is modest.

Of the church Saint-Jacob , medieval, only the name remain. The current building, of the 19th century, was arranged in museum of the craft industry.

Tourism

Hotel the mill of Moissac , overhanging the Tarn since 1474.

Twinning

The Town of Moissac is also twinned with the Town of ASTORGA (Province of Leon), another stage city of the ways of compostelle important in Spain.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Delbrel (1764 - 1846): lawyer
Alfred Roques (1925 - 2004): player of Rugby to XV
Jean-David Levitte: Ambassador
Christophe Rinero: Cyclist
Slimane Azem (1918 - 1983): Chanteur kabyle buried has Moissac.
Richard Maggiore: Poet

See too

Common of Tarn-et-Garonne
the Grape Chasselas gilded: the moissac ; production: more 18 000 tons, largest French production of table grapes. This fruit profits from the Appellation of controlled origin.
Moissac, with the thousand faces : text dedicated to the city writes by Richard Maggiore , writer and poet French born in Moissac the October 20th 1973, President of Association “Lira under Warheads”, affiliated with the Bibliothèque of the city moissagaise and member of the “Company of the Writers of Tarn-et-Garonne”. This Poème composed at the request of the Library Municipale was officially chosen by this one like text of reference of the edition 2006 of the Printemps of the Poets; it is also available on CD-ROM “Moissagais Routes” carried out by the elementary school moissagaise Louis Gardes, recited by children of the school complex. In 2007, it is another of its poems, heading “Soul mate”, that the Library of the city retained for the edition 2007 of the Spring of the Poets. Richard Maggiore takes an active part also in the review " Wind of Southerly wind poétique" , published under the aegis of the delegation the Midday-Pyrenees of the Company of the Poets and Artists of France (the SPAF); and is also the author of a collection of poetries entitled " Memories of shades and lumières".
the abbey and cloisters of Moissac, Ernest Toff, Paris, 1897
the Abbey and cloisters of Moissac, Ernest Toff, 1981 (republication)

External bonds

Official site of the town of Moissac
Country of Moissac: gate of the country of Moissac Castelsarrasin
Page of the Library of Moissac
Re-examined regional history Arkheia
Moissac on the site of the national geographical Institute
Moissac on the site of INSEE
Moissac on the site of Quid
Localization of Moissac on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Moissac on Mapquest

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