Plessis-Fire-Aussoux

Plessis-Fire-Aussoux is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Ansoldiens .

Geography

This small commune is located at the east of the capital, at a distance of 50 km of the Porte of Charenton. One reaches it by the Autoroute A4, left n°13 in direction Provins. The majority of the territory is occupied by arable lands. The population is gathered around the center of the village. The Yerres, affluent of the the Seine, takes its source close to here and forms the limit with the commune of Touquin. There were formerly many water mills on its course (Berneray, Galand). The GR. Pays of Yerres passes in the commune.

Localities and variations

There is only one variation: Puiseaux.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are Touquin, Vaudoy-in-Brie and Voinsles.

History

The village is quoted in a manuscript gone back to 1174, but it is probable that there existed already before, perhaps at the Gallo-Roman period, the Roman way Agrippa passer by with a few kilometers. It appears under the name of Ansoldus de Plesseio , Ansoldus being the patronym of the lord, and plesseio , become plessis, indicating the presence of a formed enclosure of piles and interlaced branches. The qualifier " feu" , meaning that the lord is deceased, appeared on an unknown date. As of 1487, the orthography is close to the current one, even if the hesitation remained a long time concerning the final letter (" s" or " x"). Official name is Plessis-Fire-Aussoux.

Until 1285, the village was located in a " go séparante" in which the inhabitants depended on the powerful count de Champagne and the King, each one having rights of justice. It will be necessary to await the marriage of Philippe IV with Jeanne de Navarre so that Plessis is attached to the crown. In 1487 the Chartreux of Paris go purchaser of most of the stronghold. With the French revolution, their goods, become national, will be sold.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

The church is quoted in 1339 like vault ( Capella de Plesseto defuncto Amxodi ); it had to be built towards 1265, when the lord made build around his residence an enclosure formed by high stone walls, of which a part is still visible. Indeed, the wall of the church side street forms a unit with the enclosing wall. Inside the enclosure (farmyard) there was a keep, home, stables and cattle sheds. It was many altered times and did not pass far from the demolition because of its outdatedness. The bell-tower has being set up towards 1802 with the site of a small cemetery. To caquetoir, kind of hood placed at the top of the gate of entry, demolished about 1920, was rebuilt in 1999. In the beginning, the owners were holy Cosme and holy Damien. As from 1680 approximately, the church will be under the term of holy Nicolas. The retable of the high altar out of carved wooden and its three fabrics (saint Nicolas, holy Pierre and holy Jean), the grid of communion out of wrought iron, as well as a Virgin with the child out of polychrome wooden, dating from the 14th century are classified with the historic buildings. The bell, melted in 1523, it was also classified with the historic buildings in 2000.

Civil inheritance

The place of the village is a vast turfed space, limes forming of the shaded alleys. The central surface is used as playing field and accommodates various demonstrations. The building of the town hall was in the beginning a school, built in 1848. During years it underwent installations, the last being construction on the back frontage of an entirely glazed rotunda giving on the place.

Famous characters

The Harpsichord ist Jacques Champion of Chambonnières (about 1601 - 1672), " father of the French school of the clavecin" , placed in the village, a property belonging to its first wife. It introduced the Couperin family at the court of Louis XIV.
Jean Gossip. French painter

References

Three recent works are deposited and consultable in the Series J with the Departmental records of Seine-et-Marne.

a village briard: Plessis Fire Aussoux
the school of Plessis Fire Aussoux. 1705-1961
September 1914. The battles of the Marne in the sector Pézarches - Vaudoy-in-Brie

External bonds

HTTP: /www.cc-sourcesdelyerres.fr/the Community of Communes Sources of Yerres

Internal bonds

Western Border of the historical Champagne county
Demography. Infant mortality

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