Montivilliers

Montivilliers is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy. The town of Montivilliers is the second city of the agglomeration havraise by the number of inhabitants.

Its inhabitants is called Montivillions.

Geography

This commune is located on Right Bank of the the Seine, with ten kilometers of the Havre. The commune is crossed by the river the Crack. The Crack was artificially divided into two arms as of the Middle Ages, in order to multiply the mill S with corn and Tan, whose vestiges remain still nowadays. Best preserved is that of the abbey, mill with banal corn, from which the abbesses drew a great income.

The crack with the Middle Ages much broader than and less being nowadays envasée, there existed in Montivilliers a considerable port activity.

History

Prehistory

No trace was found on the site of the city, the territory of the commune at the time being submerged by the tides.

Antiquity

Some Gallic objects, hatchets of Jade and Bronze were found on the slopes dominating the city. A Roman fitted energy of Harfleur with Montivilliers was attested, it was destroyed by English in 1415.

The Middle Ages

the Abbey of Montivilliers

Old “the Monasterii Villare ” (which gave its name to the town of Montivilliers) belonged to the large monastic foundations of the 7th century in the low valley of the Seine. Between 682 and 684, during a voyage to Jumièges, Saint Philibert founds here a monastery of women at the request of Saint Ouen, bishop of Rouen. This monastery will be completely destroyed by the Vikings and will be raised only at the beginning of the 11th century, this time with men, placed under the dependence of the abbey of Fécamp. In 1035, the duke Robert the Splendid one gives his autonomy to the monastery, which becomes again an abbey of women, equipped in the area with many goods which enabled him to undertake, under the abbatiat with Elisabeth in second half of the 11th century, the building work of the large church, excel pilot of architecture Norman at the time of William the Conqueror.

At the 15th century, the parish Saint-Saver, which had received the first seven spans of the nave, made cut down his northern side, to double it with a broad Gothic vessel. Of XVIe at the 18th century, the abbey always knows a great radiation, in particular under the abbatiat of Louise of Hospital (1596 - 1643).

Given up by the nuns in 1792, the abbey sudden for the revolutionary period intense and multiform occupation (offices, prison, garrison, stores, stables, etc). Before and after their sale in 1811, the buildings were used throughout the 19th century at industrial ends (cotton-spinning then sugar refinery and finally brewery in 1857) and were converted thereafter into warehouses, garages and buildings of dwelling.

In 1975, the municipality of Montivilliers engages a reflection on the future of the abbey site which leads favorably in 1977. The first section of work will allow the installation in 1994 of the Condorcet Library in the Home of the Abbesses. The second section carried out of 1997 with 2000 allowed the restitution of spaces in their architecture of origin, the creation of the course spectacle “Heart of Abbey” and the installation of a room of temporary exhibitions in the Gothic refectory.

Saint Philibert (death in VIIe century) founds the Abbaye women of Montivilliers.
In 1202, Jean Without Ground grants a commune to Montivilliers.
In 1472, Charles Bold the besieges the city.

the aître of Brisgaret

With the Middle Ages, the cemeteries are all the more exiguous as they are planted trees (apple trees, elms, ashes); also the stay of died in the ground is it very short and the exhumations are not made wait especially in period of epidemic. The bones go then to the aître. The aître is a gallery being used as ossuary. One passes the bones there by attic windows spared in the roof. Final construction intervenes starting from 1542.

Montivilliers per hour of the Second world war

See the article Jean Prévost, resisting originating in Montivilliers.
the September 3rd 1944, the city is released from the occupation Nazi, thanks to the efforts of the Résistance.

Administration

The Town of Montivilliers, with 16 other communes, fact part of the the Community of Agglomeration of the area Havraise (CODAH).

Demography

Places and monuments

Abbey and museum " Heart of Abbaye"
Library Condorcet
Banks of the Crack
Rampart S medieval
College J. Prévost
Colleges R. Queneau and Open air
Schools and colleges Holy-Cross and Saint-Germain
Elementary schools and maternal J. Ferry, V. Hugo, J. Collet, L. Michel, Mr. Grout, C. Perrault, J. Fountain and Bridge Callouard

Personalities related to the commune

Rene Bihel, footballer born in 1916
Pierre Aubery and Emile Danoën bind friendship to it whereas they are supervisors at the higher Elementary school, at the end of the years 1930.
Raimond Lecourt, painter

Twinnings

, to see since 1963
since 2002

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