Montsoult

Montsoult is a commune of the Val-d'Oise located at hillside at orée of the Forêt of Isle-Adam, dominating the flat of France, and with approximately 20 km in the north of Paris.

Its inhabitants are Montsoultois (be).

Geography

The commune is bordering on Maffliers, Attainville, Baillet-in-France, Chauvry, Villiers-Adam and Nerville-the-Forest.

History

The name of Montsoult probably comes from Latin Monticelis , deterioration of Montis Cellariensis , mount relating to the storeroom of the monks, or perhaps of anthroponyle Assembles-Ceodi, knight of 1233.

The village is mentioned for the first time in a diploma of Charles the Bald person in 862. Towards 1275, the seigniory is divided between a branch of the family of Montmorency and the family the Tail. The two fields are joined together in 1744 per Geoffroy Macé Camus de Pontcarré, baron of Maffliers. The population rises with a little more than 400 inhabitants at the 19th century.

With arivée of the railroad in 1875, the commune knows slow demographic trends and extends towards the station, located in the plain. A first wave of allotment begins in 1926 causing an important surge from population. In 1940, the castle is requisitioned by German; the town hall arranges a boarding school in 1943 there then resells it in 1945 with the embassy of the USSR. Bars of buildings are built in the Années 1960.

Heraldic

Administration

Montsoult belongs to the jurisdiction of authority of Écouen, and great authority as well as trade of Pontoise.

Demography

Transport

Montsoult is served by the station of Montsoult - Maffliers, on the network Transilien Paris-North, branches Paris-North - Persan-Beaumont/Luzarches. The station is served at a rate of a slow train to the 1/4 of hour in off-peak hours and by 8 semi-direct trains/peak hour, in alternation a semi-direct train to the 1/4 of hour is (ominibus of Paris with Sarcelles - direct Saint-Brice then) and another semi-direct train (direct of Paris with Sarcelles - Saint-Brice and slow train then) to the 1/4 of hour.

The service road is reduced to a slow train to the 1/2 hour in evening (after 20:30). It is necessary from 26 to 31 mn of way starting from the station of North.

Monuments

Church Saint-Sulpice Built at the 16th century with the site of a more important building of the 13th century, perhaps destroyed by English during the Guerre One hundred Year old the church was restored of 1967 with 1976. The weapons of the Connétable Anne de Montmorency are engraved there at multiple places. Chorus with flat bedside, and the bored square bell-tower of bays geminated, raised on the northern side, are modern. A wrought iron cross on a pedestal Rebirth, is drawn up in front of the church.

The Villa Béthanie , old seminar oratorien, rises since 1889 with the site of the old medieval castle of the Foot-of-Iron, destroyed in 1875.

There exists a hike which passes through the city and shows the most beautiful trees of the commune.

See too

Internal bonds

Forest of Isle-Adam
Common of the Val-d'Oise

External bonds

Official site
Montsoult seen of the sky (Google Maps)

Notes, sources and references

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