Omois

Omois is an area of the extreme south of the Aisne.

It is with Castle-Thierry, birthplace of Fabuliste Jean of the Fountain which begins the tourist road from the Champagne.

The thirty six villages which profit from the name of controlled origin are present on this course.

HISTORY:

Its history is lost in the mists of time and taken its roots in Tardenois, where traces of human presence were discovered (9000 - 4500 Av. J.C.)

In 1872, is updated on the site of Caranda (Candles), 2600 Gallo-Roman burials. Another site of the Roman occupation, still visible traces of a oppidum on the Hillock of Beaumont close to Cop-in-Brie, towards Montlevon. In Castle-Thierry, the Gallo-Roman occupation consisted, in a large village, of a surface of 5O hectares located on the hills of Vaucrises as well as the presence of a necropolis Gallo-Roman at the place known as " Praillons" and of constructions to the district of the " Hérissons".

Attila, king of Huns, did not leave of his passage in the city of Otmus (current Castle-Thierry) only of the ruins… In 720, Charles Martel, makes build the first castle for Thierry IV, young 7 year old king who will give his name to the city in the form of Castrum Theodorici: the castle of Thierry. It is in the same castle that will be locked up Charles the Simple decree by Herbert de Vermandois, Count of OMOIS. The OMOIS, left " Principauté" , included the south of the department crossed by the valley of the Marne and whose Castle-Thierry was the center of radiation. The limits of this small area will be maintained jusqu with the revolution. Year 988, will be marked by the invasions and will see the arrival of the Vikings by the Marne…

The Marne

Castle-Thierry accommodates Jeanne d' Arc in 1429, of return of the sacring of Charles VII in Rheims. The English flee with his approach

Louis XIII invests our area for the pleasure of hunting (Mazarin often consulted it).

In February 1814, the Countryside of France passes by the south of Aisne (of Go-in-Brie with Castle-Thierry). It is with the " speed of the éclair" , that Napoleon will carry out his " Marie-Louise" on the road des" 4 victoires" to try to pare out of our Russian borders, Prussian and Austrian. These victories will be the triumph of the intelligence on the number

The two great world wars of the 20th century against Germany largely wounded the OMOIS, that of 14/18 particularly violent and bloody barrel. One remembers the two battles of the Marne which were fatal.

LANDSCAPES AND CONTRASTS:

The OMOIS, a geographical identity which is combined with diversity:

- In the North-East, Tardenois. Old region, where the heavy brown grounds of the cultures and pastures flirtent with the planted sandy extents of pines and giant rocks tended towards the sky like a memory of Coincy prehistory, Fère, Cierges). Further, the corrugated plates are capped with wood (Saponay, Rognac, Meunière, the Small tower) and with forests (Fère, Nesles).

- Beyond Dravegny, on the field of Montaon, one guesses behind the main forests, the Abbey of Igny, place of contemplation and inspiration for the Huysmans writer.

- In the south-east of Castle-Thierry, to the extreme southern point of our territory, is posted the Galveuse Brie. This soil, with the harder geographical features, has the castle of Cop-in-Brie one of the florets of our local history. With its vast formerly strengthened farms, like only obstacles with the wind (heurtebise), it was made tame by the man to become ground of culture and breeding with a marked presence of the vineyard in the valley of Surmelin.

- Like " gracious a balafre" the Valley of the Marne is stretched of Is in west to the great joy of the vines and orchards which it sprinkles!

- Here, Reuilly-Sauvigny or " the time of the cerises" , there, the Charly-on-Marne, venerating Emile Morlot for his name champagne! … Yes, you are also and especially in the country of the Champagne tradition and the vine. The " wine gris" canons of Essômes levelled the gosier of kings François Ier, then Henry IV… the " King Champagne" , as for him, the 17th century will wait to reign on the Valley. A Valley which one can taste plenitude with the wire from the points of view and tables of orientation: of Nipple while passing by the Mount of Bonneil, course on the heights between Nogent-l' Artaud, the Chézy-on-Marne, Mount-Saint-Father and coast 204, place of the memory and plate dominating the castelle city.

Champagne vines of Bonneil and the Mount of Bonneil

The OMOIS, OF the RIVERS:

Cop-in-Brie, with horse on Dhuys, is the center of a multitude of charming villages supervising the valley of Surmelin. There, the OMOIS is " like water, it is like water vive" … An invaluable richness which the town of Paris very early coveted.

Thus in 1862, it channeled the water of Dhuys (Pargny-la-Dhuys) and Surmelin joined together, in an underground aqueduct which crosses five departments (131 km) to join by gravity the tank of Ménilmontant. The whole of this route is synonymous with walks and greenery. A marked out path (GR. 14) accompanies it with hillside. The Aqueduct, work of art of 19th, always supplies the drinking water capital. One tried more once to poison his water or to bombard his drains at the time of the great conflicts of 1870,1914/1918 and 1939/1945.

Hyphen of 11 km between Viffort and Azy, the Parer fed formerly more than six mills. It sprinkles Essises, Montfaucon and the Chézy-on-Marne where its banks are an appreciated place of walk of the flâneurs.

The Parer with Chézy on the Marne

Ourcq is stretched on 85 km and occurs in Tardenois. Channeled in Ferté-Milon, its water awakes each morning the streets of the capital.

Small picturesque brook, Ordrimouille, with its name which tickles curiosity, walks its water between Trugny and Armentières where they marry with those of Ourcq. It draws its name with odd consonance from the monks of Coincy which at the time of the abbey, " mouillaient" their linen i.e., washed it in this small brook (order-there-damping).

See too

District of Castle-Thierry

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