Montfort-l\' Amaury

Montfort-l' Amaury is a common French located in the department of the Yvelines and in the area Île-de-France.

The inhabitants are the Montfortois .

Geography

The commune of Montfort-l' Amaury, located at approximately 20 km in the north of Rambouillet, is located at the south of the flat which bears its name, in a zone of slopes in the north of the main forest of Rambouillet. The city is located around a rocky outcrop of 183 m altitude.

It is bordering on Méré in north, of Bazoches-on-Guyonne in the east, the Mesnuls in south-east, Saint-Leger-in-Yvelines in the south and Grosrouvre in the west.

The lanes which connect it to the other cities of Yvelines are, in north the secondary road 76 towards the station with Méré, the Trunk road 12 and the direction of Thoiry, in the east the secondary road 13 towards Maurepas, the Trunk road 10 and beyond Chevreuse, in south-east the secondary road 155 towards Mesnuls, in the south the secondary road 138 towards Saint-Leger-in-Yvelines, in south-west the secondary road 112 towards Gambais and beyond Gressey, in the west the secondary road 172 towards Grosrouvre and in the North-West the secondary road 155 towards Galluis.

In the railway plan, it is served by the Gare of Montfort-l' Amaury - Mother, located at Méré.

History

Montfort-l' Amaury took the name of Amaury I {{er}}, the first count de Montfort.

It is the king Robert II (972-1031) which made build the castle-extremely in 996 on the hillock of Montfort.

Montfort-l' Amaury was the stronghold of the family of Montfort since the beginning of the 11th century with Guillaume de Hainaut. It is his/her son, Amaury I {{er}} (1028-1053), which made build the ramparts which one can still see vestiges.
The Seigneurie of Montfort-l' Amaury is set up in county with the profit of the son of Simon IV (1165-1218).
During the War One hundred Year old (1337-1453), the strong Château will be destroyed by the English.
The county of Montfort was related to the Duché of Brittany following the marriage of Yolande de Montfort with Arthur II of Brittany in 1364. It will return to the crown of France in 1547 during the final meeting of the Duché of Brittany to France by the accession to the throne of France of its last duke Henri II after Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) married successively the kings of France Charles VIII and Louis XII and that his/her daughter Claude of France (1499-1524) married François I {{er}}.

Demography

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Culture

Monuments

Ramparts of the S of which there remain only some vestiges and the Bardoul door.
Castle of Montfort, also called Tower Anne-of-Brittany: built at the 12th century, destroyed during the War One hundred Year old, there remains about it only the ruins of the keep which made build later on Anne of Brittany.
Saint-Pierre Church: church of the S, an impressive and rare size for a small city, built by Anne of Brittany instead of a medieval church of the 11th century.
Cemetery of 15th and 16th centuries, surrounded by galleries, similar to that of a Cloister, having been used as mass graves for the burial of the withdrawn bodies of the old cemetery with the site of the church.
Castle of Groussay, the 19th century, private property.
the house of Maurice Ravel, the View-point , is a residence of the 20th century which is with the foot of the ruins of the keep and which overhangs the south of the city. Maurice Ravel lived there of 1921 with his death in 1937. It was transformed into museum.

Personalities related to the commune

Louis Groult of the Rivers, general-count, deceased the November 3rd 1832, 89 years old, in its house of Montfort-l' Amaury.
Septime Pippre, grandson of the precedent, painter, Painter in watercolours and soldier, born the February 13rd 1833 in Montfort-l' Amaury.
Jean-Antoine Roucher
Victor Hugo
Georges Bizet
Maurice Ravel
Jean Anouilh
Florent Pagny
Marcel Herrand
Didier Barbelivien
Johnny Hallyday
Charles Aznavour
Jean Constant which lived in Montfort-l' Amaury at the 20th century was one of the benefactors of the commune. Very attached to the public service of education, he was a pioneer of the school restoration. The municipal canteen of Montfort-l' Amaury bears its name.

Twin towns

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Economy

Common residential
Tourism

See too

Common of Yvelines
Counts de Montfort-l' Amaury
Louis Groult of the Rivers

External bonds

Montfort-l' Amaury, official site
Tourist office of Montfort-l' Amaury
Practical informations on the city
Montfort-l' Amaury on the site of IGN
Montfort-l' Amaury on the site of INSEE
Seen air of the commune of Montfort-l' Amaury on the site of the Iaurif
Montfort-l' Amaury on Google Maps:

Situation and plan
Seen satellite

Plane of intendance of the parish of Mont-Fort on the site of the files of Yvelines
Photograph gallery on the site Montjoye.net
the “View-point” of Maurice Ravel on the site of Montfort-l' Amaury
a page on the castle of Groussay and its “madnesses”

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