Poncins

Poncins is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Village located at the center of the plain of the Drill, Poncins is located at the confluence of Vizezy and of the Lignon of Drill. Its territory is very mainly occupied by farms.

History

Poncins is a site inhabited since of unmemorable times. One finds vestiges Gallo-Roman on the commune. Poncins seems parish since 984. The inhabitants of Poncins are the poncinois.

Administration

Demography

Traditionally agricultural village, the choice of the successive local governments was to develop the residential capacity of reception: Today, the majority of the inhabitants works in external communes: Feurs, Montbrison and even Saint-Etienne.

Places and monuments

The church of the village, devoted to Saint Laurent, review entirely at the XIXe century, guard an element extrèmement interesting: it is one of very rare in France to have kept a bell-tower out of wooden. Its chorus is of XIIIe, its apse of XVe.

Personalities related to the commune

Marguerite Gonon

She was born with Saint-Etienne in 1914, obtaining her certificate of study at one time still unfavorable to the girls, she was teacher, researcher then engineer with C.N.R.S.. Doctor be-letters, historian, for a long time living of Poncins it is died with Feurs in May 1996; author of many work in particular relating to the history and the patois of the Drill. Recognized Medievalist (in particular for his native area of Drill), it is the author of a DVD on the Middle Ages where it tells with passion the daily newspaper of the inhabitants of Drill at that time.

Charles Beauverie

It was born in 1839, It was pupil of the Imperial École of the Art schools of Lyon. It is registered with the workshop of Gleyre, one of the most famous workshops of Paris (it paints the forest of Fontainebleau then). After the war of 1870, the School of Barbizon attenuates, and Beauverie painted the banks of Oise, the gleamings of water. It wishes to reside at Poncins, on banks of the lignon, close to Feurs. It dies there in 1923.

See too

  • Common of the Loire

External bonds

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

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