Montagney-Servigney

Montagney-Servigney is a common French, located in the department of the Doubs and the area Franche-Comté.

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Blast furnace installed about 1500, it takes importance by the manufacture of ball of guns about 1689. The forging mill belongs to the Marquis of the Balsam-Montrevel then. The Masters of this forging mill in 1789 will be Nicolas Gauthier then, when in 1808, after the Marquis de Grammont became owner about it, it is the son of Nicolas, Joseph Gauthier, known as the " Napoleon of Forges" who will become in 1820 the new ironmaster of Montagney. The decline starts about 1842 and in 1850, any activity ceases. shortly after the workshop will become a mill. Today the buildings are visible. That of the blast furnace is in the course of restoration like various points of run and work of metal, the trip hammer, this long very heavy mass, driven by a paddle wheel, and intended for the hammering of metal to drive out gases of them. The buildings of the personnel, the house of the Director and especially, the superb residence of the Ironmaster (old return of hunting of the marquis de Choiseul) are in an excellent state and make it possible to imagine the organization of a forging mill to the XVIII eme century. Animations intended to explain the forging, since the manufacture of wood, the extraction of the ore, the rise in temperature and casting are proposed on the site. See also a superb collection of castings: balls, ustensils and especially, a great number of cast iron furnaces manufactured on the spot since the origin of the forging mill.

Personalities related to the commune

Nicolas GAUTHIER: born about 1753, will be at the same time a maïtre of effective forging mill because resulting from the medium from the forgemen and the founder from a line from ironmasters. - his/her son, Joseph GAUTHIER, called " Napoleon of Forges" the productivity of the forging mills will acrroitra which it managed until 1839. Then the decline of the metallurgy will lead this ironmaster to the faillitte, with an exile in Algeria where it undergoes a new failure in the exploitation of iron mines.

- " Clarisse": girl of Nicolas GAUTHIER. Claire known as " Clarisse" born in 1789, married a clothier of Besancon, VIGOROUS Pierre. Journalist and écrivaine of quality, it was one of the followers active of Charles FOURIER and the egery of his son-in-law, the Victor CONSIDERING, one of the disciples most known of Community socialism utopian rested by FOURIER. She wrote some works: " Words of Providence" in 1834, With CONSIDERING, Clarisse ruined itself to try to found an industrial community, a " phalanstère" according to FOURIER. These Phalansteries échouerent, including in the attempt known as " REUNION" a test of phalanstery tried in Dallas in the USA by Clarisse, Considering and Julie, the wife of this last and slips by of Clarisse. " REUNION" was a failure, in spite of the remarkable men who followed Considering through the ocean and the USA, because that started in full American Civil War. This added to the incapacity of Considering, rather a thinker theorist, with correctly structuring the phalanstery which can explain the failure. Clarisse mouru in misery with San Antonio in 1865. Today Dallas preserved a monument pointing out this episode of the history of Dallas and the scientists and Inhabitant of Franche-Comté craftsmen who accompanied Considering remained famous. One was a famous botanist who made school, the other founded one of the first breweries American.

- Clarisse COIGNET-GAUTHIER, born in 1823, Girl of Joseph Gauthier, the " Napoleon of the forges". She also was a moralist and écrivaine of quality. Very near to his/her aunt, the other " Clarisse" . Feminist, it took part in 1870 at a commission of teaching intended to open public education with the girls. It will publish its " Mémoires" published in 1899 and one great number of works

- Victor CONSIDERING, husband of Julie, the girl of VIGOROUS Clarisse, even if it is not Montagney were a friend of the GAUTHIER child and frequently remained in the house of the Ironmasters. He was " poussé" by the women of the forging mill of Montagney towards the utopism of Fourier of which he became a major disciple then towards the delegation.

See too

Common of Doubs

External bonds

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

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