Nouzonville

Nouzonville is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

History

In the beginning, Nouzonville was called only " Nouzon". A local history tells that it is very a long time, on the edges of Meuse where currently the commune is, a fisherman lived. When it was asked to him whether it had fished something in the course of the day, it answered, in local patois: " Us ons of the pechon" (we have fish). By pronouncing the connection, that gives " nouzon of the pechon". It is in this particular way to speak that the name would come from NOUZONville.

Administration

Successive mayors:

Charles Jeunehomme-Rousseau (1827-1877), mayor of Nouzon in 1870.

Demography

Places and monuments

Station of Nouzonville

Personalities related to the commune

Franz Bartelt

Of origin poméranienne (Poland), the Bartelt family settles in the Ardennes, the area of Arthur Rimbaud. A place predestined for the Franz young person who learns how to read in the detective novels that his/her mother devours, and starts to write at the thirteen years age. One year later it leaves the school and earns its living by connecting the odd jobs. At nineteen years, it enters a factory of paper transformation, another symbolic system place for the writer who it is on the way to become. In 1980, it settles in Nouzonville and is devoted to the writing. During five years of labor at the rate/rhythm of the three-shift working, it aligns two volumes per annum without worrying to be made publish. It is starting from 1985 qu ' it makes writing its single means of subsistence. Poet, short story writer, playwright and feuilletonist, it also gives eight plays to France Culture and of the estival chronicles to the Inhabitant of the Ardennes. From 1995, he knows the dedication with the publication of his novels, all applauded by the critic and some selected for the literary prizes, ( Been engaged of the paradise , Hunting for the large monkey , the Costume , red Boots , the Large Fold and Terrine Rimbaud ).

He wrote to the walkers of which here an extract:

" I am of a country built by silence. And which assembles, valley against valley, other old countries and lointains.
My youth was burned in the plain. I have only memories of full été."
" I from would go away well, certain days, about this time without nobility, which goes. I from would go away well, certain days, with the front of tirednesses of freedom, about these mornings of sun fogs harnessed, towards these green shores that the wind pushes in the sea, towards these towns of russet-red brick and cold, posed on landscapes more luminous than the sky. Certain days, I from would go away well for me in aller."

See too

Common of the Ardennes
Station of Nouzonville
Marcel Trillat, realizer of documentary the " Silence in Vallée" on the large last forges of Nouzonville (2006)
working Désarrois, families of metallurgists in the industrial and social changes (1987) edition the harmattan, investigation into the territory of Nouzonville realized by the sociologist Michel Pinçon.

External bonds

Nouzonville on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nouzonville on the site of INSEE
Nouzonville on the site of Quid
Localization of Nouzonville on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Nouzonville on Mapquest

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