Neuville-the-Ladies

Geography

Between the area of the Dombes and that of the Bresse, Neuville-the-Ladies benefits from best from the two influences to propose a slightly undulating and moucheté landscape of ponds.

History

Until the Revolution, the history of Neuville merges with that of its priory, and it is well rightly that one preserved at common his name of Neuville the Ladies. According to the tradition, the first village, which was called Luyseis, was located on left bank of the Reputation, with a few 600 meters of the village current. Completely destroyed by a fire, it was rebuilt with the site which it occupies today and took the name of Neuville: Nova.
villa On a not specified date was created a monastery Benedictine of women depending on the monastery of men of Saint-Claude. This monastery received only noble girls. In 1775, the priory itself was secularized. From now on, it was not occupied any more by nuns, but by chanoinesses, resulting from the more big families of France, which did not make wishes and carried out a very free life.
The arrival of the revolution put a term at this brilliant period. The very new church Sainte Catherine was demolished, as well as the bell-tower of the parish church.

Administration

Demography

Curiosities

Place of the Chapter (old residences of the Chanoinesse S)
Montedon
Church of the 19th century
canonic Houses
Mills
Street of the Bresse
Markets
Laundrette
Furnace
Castle of Chassagne
Poype

Famous characters

See too

List of the Common of Ain
to discover Neuville-the-Ladies at the beginning of the XXe century, to consult the work of Olivier Gouic , Neuville-the-Ladies, Jean-Eugene and Eugenie, a couple in the storm of the Great War , editions of Catherinette, 2006,189 p. (24 euros). The experiment of war of Jean-Eugene Rammer, trading neuvillois, and life at the village between 1914 and 1918, according to the correspondence of war of the husbands Rammer, the whole illustrated by a complete collection of postcards of Neuville-the-Ladies at the beginning of the XXe century.

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