Nangis

Nangis is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called Nangissiens.

Geography

Nangis is located at the center of the Brie and the Seine and Marne, between Melun and Provins.

It is the place chief of canton (17 communes) of the district of Provins.

Distant of 70 km Paris, the city has all the advantages of one city to the countryside with its aspect close to nature (a very beautiful small park, pleasant forests…) and the quality of its services, its trade, its many equipment (cultural, sporting, station…).

History

Set up downtown in 1544 by François Ier.

The Russian were beaten there the February 17th 1814 by François Etienne Kellermann and Jean-Baptiste Girard.

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History of the birth of the town of Nangis

birth of Nangis

Of Gallic and the Romans

One meets traces of Gallic stations neither no vestige of the druidic religion on the territory of Nangis, neither even no currency, nor no remains which can be attached at that time. Under their domination, the Romans had to follow the attended road going along left bank of Yonne and the Seine, then went along Right Bank to take by storm mélodunum (Melun) and to subject Lutèce overflowed. To penetrate more in north and to gain the valleys of the Marne and Oise. Labiénus, lieutenant de César, made open, by its legions, a military main road through the high forest which recovered this immense region. This way crossed, on a bridge, the Seine with Jaulnes close to the Bray-on-Seine and moved in straight line on Meaux. With the Middle Ages, it took the name of Facing and was used as limit between the Mons one and the Brie Frenchwoman with the Brie Champagne. The populations of the area, little submitted, made dangerous the crossing of the forest. The Romans had to create the military station of Riboe (today Châteaubleau). In this true strengthened city, fed of water by lines of well, they established there a permanent garrison and a governor. Two strengthened stations were created more in the north, the Small one and the Largeone (today Orbies) which preserved its Roman name of origin and the form of plural. A farm dating from the end the Roman period was discovered during recent work.

Chastel… first seigniory of Nangis

Until the Middle Ages, the territory of the commune of Nangis was entirely covered with a dense forest. At this period, in order to allow the merchants of Paris to go to the large fairs of Brie and Champagne, with Provins or Troyes, one builds through the forest a road. For the safety of the travellers, a fortress was created to be used to them as refuge and to place a garrison. Such was the origin of Châtel, first seigniory created on the territory of Nangis. So that the fortress of Châtel can extend its action of protection, it was raised, on the roadside, on the right and on the left of the keep, the strengthened outposts: in direction of Layered branches “Small Bertauche” and for Paris “Large Bertauche”, then Bailly and Châteaufort (current village of Grandpuits). The lord of this stronghold took the name of Chastel and the inhabitants that of Chastel-lès-Nangis. the creation of the common neighbors

Around Chastel, monks clear the forest in order to create a priory then an abbey. Gradually on the cleared territories the villages will be built surrounding Nangis nowadays.

Nangis is born from the competition of Chastel and the Mound-Beauvoir With the clearing of his fields, the lord of Chastel lives to group safe from his keep an increasingly many population and a village was created in the plain between Chastel and the Largeone which took the name of Chastel-Lès-Nangis. A church was built near the castle. The proximity of the road of Paris, traversed continuously by bands of plunderers, obliged the creation of a new stronghold more in the south whose owner made raise an extremely important castle that it called Beauvoir La Motte because of its situation and its site, i.e.: small eminence and beautiful sight. The two rival villages attracted with them the population and, in this fight, Beauvoir La Motte was to take the top: the nomads put themselves under the protection of the castle most important and pertaining to a richer family. Then, the inhabitants of Chastel and the Beauvoir Mound approached and were established near the fortress, along the way of Melun. Another shift in population enlarges the village while being established in the east, on both sides road of Troyes. The men of Chastel brought with them the name of Nangis which the village carried that they forsook and this name prevailed on that of the Beauvoir mound found too long. Such was the origin of Nangis. When in Chastel, it became nothing any more but one small hamlet; the church and the castle fell under the storm from the revolution from 1789.

Nangis… which rightly?

Nangis could be of origin and Gallo-Roman formation. The first form seems to be Nangiacus, then Nangeium, Nangeis then Nangiis. Nangis appears officially in 1157 on a bubble of the pope Adrien IV. Another interpretation breaks up the name of Nangis into two Celtic substantives: Nan (river) and Gys (dwelling), which would give dwelling of the river. Nangis is sprinkled by no river of surface but in its basement a torrent with strong flow runs, and let us not forget that before station strengthened of Large-Bertauche a small brook protected. Third assumption: translation of Nangiacus in field of Nanguis, name which was perhaps that of the first owner of Chastel. Another assumption: part of the forest of Beaver bore, close to Chenoise, the name of forest of Hogis. Perhaps the part of forest occupying the territory of Chastel bore it the name of Nangis by opposition and to distinguish it from that of Hogis.

Nangis of war the One hundred Year old to the First Empire

During the One hundred Year old war, Nangis is saved of accuracy. Jeanne d' Arc' has just made crown Charles VII in Rheims, on July 17th, 1429. July 25th, the duke of Bedford, regent and uncle of young king d' Angleterre Henri VI, sends reinforcements to Winchester, an army of 10.000 men goes on Corbeil, Melun. Ghost of Rheims towards Paris, Charles VII camps in Provins and dislodges the English garrison. This one is folded up on Nangis and flaring, with the passage Sognolles, Lizines, Landoy and Vanvillé. Under the influence of the Virgin, Charles VII goes until Nangis to the meeting of English. In front of this demonstration of energy, Bedford refuses the combat and is withdrawn in the plains of Brie

1560, Charles IX, wire of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis is king at 10 years. His/her mother ensures regency. The wars of religion burst. In 1560, the church of Vanvillé is burned by the Protestants. In 1562, the prince of Condé burns Cucharmoy and Saint Just. In 1567, the Protestant army plunders Montereau, Bray and Nogent-Sur-Seine, devastates Chalautre-the-Small and Chalmaison. A group of huguenots camps with the Cross-in-Brie which it puts at plundering. The passage of the royal troops is as harmful as that of the Protestants. August 9th, 1574, the troops of the queen mother, going to the meeting of Henri III ghost of Poland, plunder Rampillon, Vanvillé and Landoy. Then, on November 25th, 1576, the Protestants plunder, once more, Rampillon, the church is ransacked. In 1592, a band of vagrants plunder Villeneuve-the-Border, the church is burnt. In fact, each time, the troops are accompanied by plunderers. The inhabitants of Nangis, thanks to the ditches which impose on the bands plunderers of them, can cross this long period of disorders without suffering too much.

1747, on February 6th, day of jubilation in Nangis and great reception with the castle. Madam the dauphine Marie Josèphe of Saxony, girl of king de Pologne, goes to Paris where must take place the festivals of its marriage with the dolphin of France, wire of Louis XV and father of Louis XVI, it stops in Nangis. It is claimed that the dolphin, come incognito with Nangis, disguised on page served his future wife during the banquet.

1759, on February 27th, the prince of Bourbon, count of Walk, prince of blood, marry in the vault of the castle of Nangis the princess Fortunée Marie of Is, girl of prince Marie of Is, prince de Modène and of the princess Charlotte Aglaée of Orleans, princess of blood.

1767, another princely marriage, on January 31st, Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas de Bourbon, prince de Lamballe marry the princess Marie-Therese Louise of Savoy de Carignan. Widow on May 6th, 1768, the unfortunate princess perishes struck and decapitated in 1792 during the massacres of September. One of its geôliers tears off the heart to him to eat it and transports the body under the windows of the queen Marie-Antoinette of which it was the friend and the confidante.

1814, France is invaded and Nangis sees the various armies with the catches on its territory. While the Prussians operate towards the Marne, the Russian and Austrian army, advancing behind the Seine, crosses this river with Montereau and in Bray then the body of the marshals Victor and Oudinot pushes back who had been withdrawn behind the Yerres river. Napoleon, who has just collapsed the Prussians with Montmirail, runs to the help of his lieutenants to reject the enemy beyond the Seine and to cut the bodies of troops which had ventured until Fontainebleau. The Gerard general surprises the enemy avant-garde which was established in Mormant, the hunting of this city the sword in the kidneys and rejects it on Nangis which is occupied by a Bavarian body. The combat continues in the vast plain between Mormant and Nangis, the always pushed back enemy is driven out of Nangis and is rejected on Montereau. Bavarian division Lamotte, joined between Valjouan and Villeneuve Border them by the troops of the Gerard general, is put in rout and is sabred. They are these precursory facts of the battle of Montereau that the history called the combat of Nangis on February 17th, 1814. The mill Cleaned Top (the Sand pit), located on the nipple which dominates Nangis is reversed by artillery. Napoleon stops with the Hut, with the entry of nangis. From there, it gives its orders to the troops which ravel in front of him, directing the body of Oudinot on Provins, that of Macdonald on Donnemarie and the Victor marshal on Montereau. The Old guard bivouacs in the park of the castle and on the boulevards. The emperor harassed with tiredness, spends the night to the castle. It is there that he writes this letter, dated February 18th, with the ministry of Caulaincourt to withdraw its full powerss to him.

Text of the Official site of Nangis: http://www.ville-nangis.fr/nangis.htm (Web page consulted the 6/7/06)

Famous characters

Pierre Perret, composer-songwriter of songs.
Adrien Jean-Baptiste of Bosc, born in Nangis the November 12th 1760, is a general of empire under Napoleon.

Tourist monuments and places

SAINT-MARTIN CHURCH DATING the XIII century The church of Nangis is certainly of origin seigneuriale, because it rises close to the Castle and is separated from this last only by ditches, now filled. The date of its foundation is unknown, but one can affirm that it goes back to the thirteenth century and to allot of it the project and implementation to Pierre Britaud. The church is a monument of Gothic architecture to lancets, remarkable by its elegance, its lightness and its regularity. The arcades of the nave and the chorus are crowned of a long circular gallery, or triforium, which surmount by large windows in warhead. The vaults are out of stone. The vaults, added later, are not harmonizes some with the principal body. The church is dedicated to Martin saint and Magne saint. July 13rd, 1707, was bénite the large bell of the church. It weighed approximately 5000 pounds. It was named Marie-Marguerite. This bell was descended and destroyed during the revolution. August 25th, 1763, was bénite the bell which is always places from there, named Louise Gabrielle Lydie. This bell carries the inscription: “The year 1763, I was bénite by Mr. Charles-Pierre de Biencourt, graduate in theology, priest of Nangis, and named Louise-Gabrielle-Lydie, by very high and very powerful lord Claude-Louis-François Régnier, count de Guerchy, marquis de Nangis, knight of the orders of the King, general lieutenant of the armies, colonel-lieutenant and inspector of his regiment-infantry, governor of Huningue and ambassador in England, and very high and very powerful lady Gabrielle-Lydie d' Harcourt, his wife, represented by Mr. François-Alexandre Legrat, lawyer in Parliament, baillif and subdelegated in Nangis, and rams Jeanne-Bores Barrois, his wife, Nicolas-All Saints' day Perre and Antoine Lucian, marguilliers, Pathelin, carpenter, and Hails, bell ringer. ” The church is open Wednesday and Saturday morning and Sunday after midday. If you wish to look further into your knowledge on this church, contact Mr Henri Dallier, priest of Nangis, which will tell you in detail the past of this splendid building. Jeanne d' Arc requested there…

(source the commemorative plaque hung on the church it even)

Let us announce that the church of Rampillon near to Nangis deserves also a visit.

Culture

Sports

horsemanship

To live great adventures with back of horse, for walks, lessons of horsemanship and escapades in attachment, the riding schools “of the Vines to the Fellows”, “the conquest of the horse” and the “Pony Club of the High Meadows” await you. If you love the animals and nature do not hesitate to go up in saddle!

The conquest of the horse

20, rue de la Voie Blanche

77720 Saint Ouen-in-Brie

Tel.: 01 64 08 40 97

Pony Club of the High Meadows

Firm of Red Beugnon

77370 House in Brie

Tel.: 01 64 01 67 49 or 06 08 24 76 87

Riding school of the Vines to the Catches

the Elms

77370 Fontenailles

Tel.: 01 64 08 44 99

the excursion

In the bicycle or with foot the innumerable ones stroll are to be made around Nangis…

the swimming pool

If you wish to make meetings of aqua-gym, training, improvement, familiarisation in the aquatic environment or if you want quite simply to refresh you in summer after having crack with the sun, do not hesitate… plunge in the swimming pool of Nangis!

Swimming pool of Nangis

Road of Montereau

77370 Nangis

Such: 01 64 60 52 18

the golf

In full forest, the course of Fontenailles extends around an old castle. This splendid golf offers a wooded course of 27 holes. It is open the every day. Then, that you are player experienced or beginning, do not hesitate to come to test your skill in the field of Boudran Wood to Fontenailles.

Field of Boudran Wood - Fontenailles

77370 Fontenailles

Tel.: 01 64 60 51 52

Internet site: www.golf.com.fr/clubs/fontenailles/accueil.htm

Sporting installations

Stage

4 collective sports grounds of which a ground of honor,
1 stabilized ground,
1 additional ground (foot or Rugby young people),
1 ground of foot with 7.

Tennis

Four courts of tennis and club house.

Plates

plate n° 1: 1 ground of handball or 2 grounds of tennis shoe + 1 track of 250 meters
plate n° 2: 2 grounds of handball or 3 of volley ball or 3 courts of tennis.

Gymnasium

hand,
tennis shoe,
volleyball.

Market of sport

2 tennis courts
2 grounds of tennis shoe
3 of volleyball
1 ground of handball
1 wall of climbing.

specialized sporting rooms

1 dojo
1 room of dance
1 room of table tennis
1 meeting room for associations.

Source: official site of Nangis (see external bonds)

Twinnings

External bonds

Official site of the city
Forums of the inhabitants of the area of Layered branches and Nangis

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