Montéléger

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

Geography

History

With the Middle Ages, the Tabellion S indicated Montéléger of the name of Montislagérii, which evolved/moved in Montélagier and Montélégier. The village will be conceded with the bishops of Valence in 1157. The village and its grounds are properties various lords among whom one can retain Bertrand de Villars or Jean de Mayauds… Montéléger passes through all the religious crises in 1640, it is a certain Just-Henri de Tournon who is lord of Montéléger.

- In 1654, the Ventadour family succeeds Tournon… - In 172], Claude Buisson, rider, takes possession of the grounds of the seigniory. - In 1742, Mrs. Marie-Claire de Bernon becomes owner of the seigniory and its rights. - In 1793, Montéléger is a flourishing village, the statistics summarizes its state thus: canton and district of Valence, Elementary school, perception and post office of Star, Fair saturdays of the octave of Easter and on June 15th. These statistics recognize 644 inhabitants to him.

The castle of Montéléger was built towards the end of the XVe century or in the first years of the XVIe century. The Count de Montéléger, one of the last owners of the castle, endeavoured to restore it and embellish it.

The celebrity of the building comes from various incidents: it supported two seats, taken by the huguenots and was taken again by the catholics. The room of the kings devotes a royal visit, that of Henri III going up Comtat during the seat of Livron. A small piece of furniture points out that which the young lieutenant of the garrison of Valence used when it came to meet one of his conquests. This young lieutenant was to become, a few years later, Empereur because already " Napoleon bored under Bonaparte".

Today property of an institution, the Castle shelters a house for elderly under her terrace, from where one can admire in the south the countryside of Montéléger. Immense rooms with openings in arches give a majesty particular to the building.

Drawn from: Historical note on MONTELEGER, by Abbot A. VINCENT (1864)

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Bernard Cathelin (1919-2004) is a French painter who was very attached the area drômoise and it immortalisé it in many paintings. He lived several years with Montéléger and is buried there. The village hall of the village of Montéléger was famous, in its honor, space Cathelin .

See too

Common of Drome

External bonds

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

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