Mollans-on-Ouvèze

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

Geography

Mollans-on-Ouvèze is built on a rock with the foot of the hill of Chatelard at the entry of a throat considered formerly as the key of Baronnies. Occupying the center of a covered hemicycle of olive-trees, it forms the bottom of a rich person and fertile valley.

History

Of very old origin, Mollans belonged to the baronnie of Mévouillon. The baron Raymond V yielded the seigniory, the November 7th 1293 with Albert of Médicis whose family was to play a considerable part in France thereafter. Later the seigniory was divided into two parts; from there, the strong superior and the strong inferior whose ruins, still imposing, dominate the borough.

In 1560, Montbrun was beaten there by the account of Suze and had to flee with Geneva. Alternatively occupied by the Catholic and the Protestant , Mollans was taken by Lesdiguières, the February 18th 1589.

Mollans, was, under the old mode, the seat of officiality in Dauphiné of the bishop of Vaison.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

In the vault of the cemetery, exists a Glory which one allots to Bernus; but the greatest curiosity of the country is the cave of the angels, great excavation at the bottom of which is the pit, immense tank with water of a perfect limpidity.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Drome

External bonds

Mollans-on-Ouvèze on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mollans-on-Ouvèze on the site of INSEE
Mollans-on-Ouvèze on the site of Quid
Localization of Mollans-on-Ouvèze on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mollans-on-Ouvèze on Mapquest
All life on the village

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