Peyremale

Cevennes village located at the borders of Lozere and Ardeche, Peyremale is a commune located in the north of the department of Gard, between Génolhac and St-Ambroix; its inhabitants are the Peyremalencs . The village is composed of several places and hamlets, of which most important are Claux, the farmhouse Herm, Elzière, Drouilhèdes, Clamoux and Mercoire. Isolated farmhouses, often distant from/to each other, rise on all the Peyremalès , between Portes, Bordezac or Sénéchas.

The bracket with Peyremale, in 1602

An article going back to 1602, terribly entitled: “ Rectification of potances or forks pathibulayres in truth juridi (CTI) one of the S (eigneu) R of Chamborigaud to the mand (emen) T of Pieremale , found in the solicitors records, attests that formerly, about the middle of XVe century, honourable man lord Jean de Chasteauneuf de Randon, lord of Ales and Peyremale, would have made plant three forks above the rock of François to make there exert high justice”. In other words, there to make “ punyr & to carry out the délincquants dud (it) mandement of Pieremale & Chamborigaud ”.

These wood beams attest capacity of the local lord. Authorized to set up the bracket on its grounds, to carry out the true one and high justice, he enjoyed the right quite simply to pronounce the sentences of dead…

Antoine Deparcieux, the academician born in 1703

Without reconsidering the life and the career of Antoine Deparcieux - Ernest Durand and, recently, Gerard Delmas and Jacques Dardalhon very brilliantly wrote on the academician -, let us pay homage to that who was born, 300 years ago, on October 28th, 1703, with the farmhouse of Clotet de Cessoux, then hamlet of Peyremale.

When Ernest Durand completes his biography of Antoine Deparcieux, in 1903, it does not know the paternal origins of the academician, that it seeks side of Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Thanks to the marriage of his/her grandparents, in 1655, we now know that Deparcieux resulted from “ Milheri, diocèze of Lion ”, charming small village of the close area, with less than 200 kilometers (by the ways of formerly) of Peyremale. The cradle of the family is close: the village of Parcieux, to forty kilometers of Millery, is inevitably that which lent its name to make a patronym of it. In connection with its origins, we like it to imagine that Antoine Deparcieux did not leave Cessoux for Lyon, about 1723, in “the desire to only inform ”, but that he supposed certainly to find over there some support family. It should be known that his/her grandfather, Pierre, exerted certainly the trades of Master-metal worker then sergeant of the sizes, but that it was also “ regent of escolle, living place of Cessoux ”, as we indicate it two new documents. Let us understand that the vocation of Antoine was probably not born whereas it was bored to keep the goats in its mountains, but more logically is the fact of a family heritage. In Lyon, a cousin or an uncle, well-read man, could even have encouraged it to come to study downtown this. Later, Antoine Deparcieux will make well seek his Cevennes great nephews, to accompany them in the Parisian schools…

But that one is not mistaken there: if Deparcieux result from the region of Lion, Antoine is only more Cevennes by his mother, Jeanne Donzel, of Peyremale, and his paternal grandmother, Jeanne Dardalhon, of Chamborigaud. And Dardalhon are even attested in Cessoux since at least 1435, it is to say…

The flood of September 9th, 1772

Some remember strongest floods the XXe century, that of 1958, in particular With Peyremale, when Cèze goes up, the mill of the Great Turning can quickly disappear under water. It is what occurred in 1772. Absent from at his place at the time of the overflow of Cèze, it is easy to imagine the terror of the miller Paul Chamboredon, returning a few hours after the terrible one believed of September 9th, 1772. In this drama, “ it had misfortune to lose his wife with five children whom water involved with the most stage of the known as mill and all its effects, by means of what it is reduced in the saddest state & a dreadful mandicity ”. Paul Chamboredon had held the mill in infeodation for several years.

If its name were forgotten since - following the example mill of Deneyriel to the Farmhouse Herm -, it was called really mill of coste (side) or mill of Malpas, bad step , place by where it is dangerous and difficult to pass. Built at the beginning of the XVIIe century, it belonged then to Haut and powerful lord Lord Anthoine Hercules de Budos, Marquis de Portes , which leased it in Yzac Jaussal. In 1630, the Marchioness of Doors Louise de Crussol, widow of her husband killed the previous year with the seat of Deprived, promised “ to make acomoder and to return to it (known as) mill coiling and beating ”, expect that if “ by flooded (Ti) water one & devastations led (it) mill viendroit to fall or desmolir themselves in bloct or partly, ledict Jaussal will not be held in aulcune faisson damage and loss of icelluy ”. Admittedly, one was not unaware of the consequences of an extraordinary rising…

Creation of the Town hall of Peyremale, in 1830

The shortly after the Revolution, Peyremale is brought to be attached to the municipality of Doors. Part of Peyremalencs dissatisfied leagues to require the distinction of the village of the common neighbor, asserting that: “(…) since too a long time, the community of Peyremale had misfortune to be joined together with that of Doors for the fact of the impositions, that since too a long time also Portes was inhabited by the noble ones, lords and people of businesses which had known to create and preserve a preponderance and a domination on the shy persons inhabitants of Peyremale of which they made most abusive and more blâmable use with respect to those. ” With this petition, written on April 17th, 1790 by the notary Joseph Jaussaud, the members of the Directory of the Department of Gard will bitterly compromise, informant “ null and like nonavenue the municipality formed in the place of Peyremale ”.

Resigned, the inhabitants of Peyremale will have” to thus go up” to Portes to declare the births of their children, the deaths of their close relations, like marrying civilly. It is indeed only on July 27th, 1830 that the village will be finally set up in commune. The first mayors will be François Régis Jaussaud, wire of the notary mentioned above, then Balthazard Draussin which, as of on January 1st, 1831, will record the births of Filipino Alix Dugas and Joseph Julien Plato, respectively born with 8:00 and 11:00 from the morning in Drouilhèdes, this first New Year's Day…

Demography, of 1962 to 1999

Current administration

Sources

Pascal Jaussaud, “Peyremale, Peyremalencs, Peyremalès”, Newspaper of Peyremale

See too

Common of Gard

External bonds

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

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