Nérac

Geography

flowered City : located in the department of Lot-et-Garonne and the Aquitanian area on the Fall in Country of Albret.

It is the chief town of a district covering the south-west of the department.

History

A villa Gallo-Roman located at Garenne was excavated there in 1832 under the direction of the Sculpteur - forger Maximilien Theodore Chrétin, who assembled the fable of an imperial city of the time of the Tetricus with the complicity of Toulouse Of Mège.

Apogee of city locates at 16th century, when the Seigneur S of Albret, which had settled there towards the XIe century (coming from Labrit, in the Landes) become Kings de Navarre following the marriage of Jean III of Albret with Catherine de Foix only daughter of Gaston Phébus, in 1484. A little later their son Henri II of Albret wife in 1527 Marguerite of Angouleme, sister of François I {{er}}, one of the first writer be in French language ( Heptaméron ). It attracts in Nérac of the humanistic and the writers (Lefèvre d' Etaples, Marot). His/her daughter Jeanne d' Albret wife Antoine of Bourbon (1548) and converts with the Protestant religion.

In the Years 1530 and following, under the influence of Jeanne d' Albret, the population of Nérac converts with the Protestantisme, to be entirely huguenote at the beginning of the wars of religion.

Charles IX passes in the city at the time of royal sound Tour de France (1564 - 1566), accompanied by the Cour and Large by the kingdom: his/her brother the duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, cardinal of Bourbon and Lorraine.

In 1572, Jeanne d' Albret and Catherine de Médicis, respectively queen of Navarre (Protestant) and queen of France (catholic) marry their enfants : Henri III of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois ( Queen Margot ). Died not very front, Jeanne does not attend these " weddings of sang" . It is possible that Catherine ordered the massacre of the Protestant chiefs the day of the Saint Barthelemy benefitting from their arrival with Paris but this assumption is prone to controversy. After this disastrous event, it retains her son-in-law with the Louvre until in 1576.

Released, it returns in Nérac and holds in 1578 to with it - 1579 with Catherine de Médicis the conferences from which the edict left Nérac.

Later, Henri III of Navarre-Bourbon-Albret becomes king de France under the name of Henri IV, after Henri III died without descent (1589). The formula of the intéressé is known;: " Paris is worth a messe" well;: when the doors of Paris opened in Henri, those of famous were closed again for Nérac.

The city revolts under Louis XIII and is taken by Henri de Mayenne in 1621 and its fortifications raséees.

With the XVIIIe century, she knew an economic prosperity thanks to the trade of the flours-minots in direction of the " Isles d' Amérique" (St-Domingue). With the XIXe century, she sees the beginnings of the Baron Haussmann which is sub-prefect of 1832 with 1840, of the écrivaine George Sand and Armand Fallières which was Maire, General adviser and Député of Nérac in the years 1871 - 1880.

Heraldic

Blasonnement of the traditional weapons of Nérac:

“Of azure, with the gold sun. ”, accompanied by the currency: Ground justitiæ Christus.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Agriculture: field crops (Oleaginous Cereals, ), melon S, strawberry S…

Industry: Babcock-Wanson (Boiler S industrial).

Tertiary: sub-prefecture, colleges.

Craft industry: Artisanal chocolate factory (Artisanal the Cicada).

Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Lot-et-Garonne.

Monuments

Castle of Nérac the Castle-museum of Albret
the church St Nicolas
the House of the Conferences
the House Sully
the Bridge - Old
Quays of the Fall
the walk of Garenne
the Old man Nérac
the island close to the Bridge Old
the View-point
the Monastery of Clarisses
the Convent
the Street Puzoque
the current Town hall and the street of the old Town hall

Celebrities

List of the lords of Albret
Marianne Alespée (XVIe century), mistress of Henri II of Albret which made renovate for it the Château of Lagrange-Monrepos.
the Baron Haussmann (1809-1891) was sub-prefect of Nérac before becoming later prefect of the Seine.
Armand Fallières (1841-1931), mayor of Nérac, deputy of Lot-et-Garonne, minister then president of the French Republic.
François Darlan (1881-1942) known as the admiral Darlan, French politician, born with Nérac, wire of a mayor of Nérac.
Michel Polnareff, Song writer and performer, born in Nérac on July 3rd, 1944
Michel Montallier, Song writer and performer
Jacques de Romas, Physicist, born in Nérac on October 13rd, 1713. June 7th, 1753, it made its first electric experiment of Cerf-volant on the road of Mézin.
Annie Grégorio, Actress
Rene Leon Bourret: Geologist and Zoologist
Victor Griffuelhes: Trade unionist, born in Nérac in 1874
Michel Francoise: Author, type-setter, interpret

Twinning

(May 6th)

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