Orgon

Geography

Orgon is a village of the Rhone delta located at the north of the department and the foot of the solid mass of the Alpilles. Orgon is to 25 km of Avignon, 40 km of Aix-en-Provence, and with 60 km of Marseilles. It counts 2700 inhabitants approximately.

History

Urgonum, Castrum of Urgone in the texts of the Middle Ages of 1183, is one of the top-places of Provence.

Of many vestiges of Neolithic age was found in the small valley of Lavau and it is probable that a Oppidum celto-Ligurian exitait on the hill of Montsauvy (Mountain of Salviens).

As for the traces of Roman occupation, they are very numerous mainly in the district of Saint-Veran where one exhumed burials, currencies and statues.

Residence of Templiers and hospital of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem in the districts of the manurings and the needle, Orgon begins its history with the Middle Ages with its castle, fortified town and prison, which plays a big role as from the 13th century.

in 1204 Alphonse Count de Provence gives the castle to Guillaume Count de Forcalquier in guarantee of a treaty and Raymond Béranger will give the same pledge in 1228.

on May 1st 1303, Gabriel Salvagi of Genoa receives the castle of Charles the Lame. In 1338 the seigniory is between the hands of Raymond d' Agoult.

After the donation of the queen Jeanne in 1379 of other concessions will take place in 1424, 1435, 1438 to this king Rene included/understood it in the dowry his/her daughter Yolande of Anjou married to Ferry II of Lorraine, Count de Vaudémont and of Guise.

the house of the Own way-Lorraine will preserve the seignery of ORGON lasting more than three centuries until the revolution of 1789.

the castle will be demolished first once by the lord of Baudricourt on order of Louis XI in 1841. Then rebuilt, it will be again cut down at the time of the destruction of the feudal castles by Richelieu.

In 1562, the baron of the Adrets confusion the parish church, profanes the sanctuary of Our-Lady-with-Beauregard and precipitates in the vacuum the venerated Madone which one will collect intact.

During the league, the troops of the Duc of Savoy will not attack the city, which will avoid, in spite of the fortifications of the hill, démentélement of the vault which would have obstructed military operations.

In 1594 take place of the skirmishes between the troops of Lesdiguières and those of Épernon to the doors of Orgon.

In 1653, commnauté of Orgon receives Henri de Guise “the islands, accréments and alluvial deposit” of the Durance and the January 15th 1660, at the time of the passage of Louis XIV, profits from a tax reduction.

the revolutionary period is very agitated. Jean Charles Soulier president of the club " Freedom and the equality” are assassinated during the reaction Thermidor ienne the February 16th 1795.

Orgon is the fatherland of the poet Antoine Pomme 1620 of the soldiers of the empire Colombet, Rimbaud, Brémond of the painter Louis Espérandieu 1787-1857, of the bienfaitrice of the poor, Madeleine Laugier 1801-1880 and of the ancestors of Edmond Rostand, author of “the Eaglet” and “Cyrano of Bergerac”.

the armorial bearings of the city evoke the enthusiasm which, during the centuries, will animate Orgonnais for Our-Lady-of-Beauregard.

The blazon carries forward: “CASTRUM OF URGONE VIRGINI VOTUM”

What it is necessary to see too

ruins of the castle of the duke of Own way.
Church our-Lady of the Assumption.
Statue out of wooden of the virgin.
Vault Notre-Dame de Beauregard. (built July 1638 in April 1660).
Vault saint-Gervais.
Vault saint-Roch.
Vault saint-veran.
Oratorical XVI centuries.
Oratorical of the Madeleine.
Oratorical Michel saint.
Door of Hortet.
Door of the Angel.
Door Holy-Anne.

External bonds

Tourist office

Internal bonds

Calcareous Urgonien

To read

Orgon monograph of Rene FAGES and Louis TERTIAN published in March 1989

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