Peyresq

Peyresq is a village of the Thorame-High commune of , perched to 1528 m of altitude on a rocky outcrop of the Alp-of-High-Provence.

History

Peyresq gave its name to famous humanistic the Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc which was the lord, but put however never the feet at it.

After the French revolution, the village of Peyresc takes a new orthography: Peyresq. The common one amalgamated in November 1964 with that of the Adhesive-Saint-Michel. The new commune thus created was called Saint-Michel-Peyresq; this common was absorbed in March 1974, by Thorame-High.

Demography

Rebuilding and rebirth

In 1952, Georges Scrap, director of the Academy of the Art schools of Namur, which sought in the area a project for its students, discover Peyresq then almost entirely abandoned and the majority of the houses in ruins. Fallen under the charm from the village, it decides to rebuild it with its image of antan. His/her friend Toine Smets, real contractor of Brussels, decide to finance the project. According to the historian Louisette Sgaravizzi, in 1953 out of 53 houses 24  % were livable, 40  % to be restored and 16  % in ruins (majority being on what is called today the Court of the Trades).

In 1954, a young architect, Pierre Lamby, joint with the project. In the same way, Toine Smets makes discover Peyresq with Lucien and Jane Jacquet, with which it founds association Pro Peyresq, join thereafter by Jacques Waefelaer and his Jacqueline wife, respectively treasurer and person in charge of the intendance (stewardship).

The goal of association, as wrote it Toine Smets, is " to learn with young intellectuals the value, satisfactions and tirednesses of manual work: to attach to a task which can inspire to them by the enthusiasm, which requires devotion and solidarity and urges them to be essential a discipline. Then, to get to them at the same time the occasion of a stimulative cure in a very healthy climate, as well physically as morally, and in a merry atmosphere; their to give the opportunity to test itself with the techniques of the trades of art: pottery, ceramics, ironwork, spinning, weaving, painting, decoration, work of wood, the stone… (Finally), to give again life with picturesque local activities. By bringing together in a hard and imposing site university and student students of the Art schools, various disciplines, linked by the effort in a common goal, " Pro Peyresq" create favorable conditions with exchanges, and brings a corrective measure to the partitioning created by the studies spécialisées".

Other universities repurchase houses: the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles, but also those of Liege, Mons and Gembloux. Pro Peyresq becomes a federation of owners groups of their house to be restored or their ruin to be rebuilt, the rate/rhythm adapting to the possibilities of each one, following the plans of Lamby. Between 1953 and 1956, one equipped the houses with Running water, of electricity and the access road to the village was tarred. Pro Peyresq financially helped the involved in debt municipality.

Peyresq becomes little by little a vacation village when interfere themselves French resulting from the families origin, estivants come from the coast and especially from the Belgians, students and persons in charge of Pro Peyresq. Some tensions were born between two nationalities because the mayor had blocked the sales with French families with the profit of Pro Peyresq. But with the courses of the years the problems were solved little by little. November 1st, 1964 the commune amalgamates with that close to the Adhesive-Saint-Michel under the name of Saint-Michel-Peyresc. And on March 1st, 1974, the new entity is attached to the commune of Thorame-High.

In 1980, the second price of the " Chiefs of work in péril" is allotted to Mady Smets and Jane Jacquet for the restoration of the village of Peyresq, as well as the price " Europa Nostra" hands of Lord Duncan Sandys.

Houses

The majority of the houses bear the name of a scientist, humanistic or a Western artist, of ancient Greece at the time contemporary:

one finds there too

  • the center A.W. Smets (in homage to former president de Pro Peyresq) and where the library as well as the reception of Pro Peyresq is,

  • the UAE,
  • Solidarité peyrescane (more often called Clatot house),
  • Maison of Ceramics,
  • Maison of the Roundtables,
  • Maison of the Cross-country race,
  • Estello

The houses of the French families (except Estello) do not bear a name.

Activities

  • the bar Victor Jara, reserved to the members of Pro Peyresq, organizes sometimes a " apéricon" , kind of Questions for a champion with the peyrescanne mode.

Each summer, twinned associations ASBL Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc and Peyresq Foyer of Humanism organize conferences between academics there.

See too

Articles of Wikipédia

External bonds

  • Pro Peyresq asbl
  • * * * ASBL Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
  • ALTER-Net School of summer 2007

Books

  • Louise Navello-Sgaravizzi " Peyresq, the extraordinary destiny of a village of the Alps Provençales"
  • Paulette Borrely-Pin and Lucie Imbert " Peyresq, a destin"
  • Mady Smets "The Architect and Berger"
  • Louise Navello-Sgaravizzi " Discovered of a seigniory: Peyresq"
  • Louise Navello-Sgaravizzi " Peyresq, the extraordinary destiny of a village of the Alps provençales"

Sources

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