Puiseaux

General information

Puiseaux is a common French, located in the department of the Loiret and the area Center. The inhabitants are called Puiseautin (E) S

Geography

The commune of Puiseaux is located at the North-East of the department, with a few km of the Département of Seine-et-Marne and the the Essonne. It is also located at 19 km of Pithiviers, 19 km of Nemours, 30 km of Fontainebleau, 38 km of Montargis, 59 km of Orleans, 90km of Paris. Culminating point: The Mountain (141 m)

Localities

Large Bardilly, Small Bardilly, and the Bridge (with height of the bridge on the the Essonne).

Communes bordering

Desmonts, Bromeilles, Échilleuses, Grangermont, the Ondreville-on-Essonne, the Briarres-on-Essonne, Dimancheville, Orville

History

(source: booklet published by the city and the archaeological company of Puiseaux (1999))

One finds vestiges there Neolithic S, which proves that the territory was very early occupied by the man.
About the year 1000, Puiseaux depended on the lords of Gâtinais, and was attached to the crown of France in 1062. In 1112, Louis VI the Large founds there an abbey in the honor of the Virgin Mary, one year later, it gives the city and its inhabitants to the Saint-Victor abbey of Paris. There do not exist traces going back to this foundation, the current church was built of 1200 with 1260. A fort was built at that time to protect the monks from the feudal wars.
Towards 1370, Loys de Marval , lord of the castle, took possession of the fort of Puiseaux, but the king intervened and the monks returned in their rights.
During the Guerre One hundred Year old the city was protected by its ramparts, on the other hand the surrounding campaigns were ransacked.
In 1493, the city being extended out the walls, the prior Andre de Rély (brother of the confessor of the king Charles VIII), obtained from the king the authorization to build a second enclosure much wider. One with this intention used the stones of the first fortifications which disappeared completely except for a base from turn that one can see in the gardens of the town hall. During the same period of great work, one built also the market.
on June 23rd 1502 the brothers Hutin de Châtillon assassinated the prior André de Rély , which was worth to them to be banished with perpetuity.
the walls of the city protected it during the Wars of religion, Condé, the Protestants, of the German mercenaries, all gave up attacking it, seen the solidity of its walls.
the French revolution, the wars of 1814, and 1870, passed to Puiseaux without doing too many damage there.
During the Second world war Puiseaux was occupied, but it there have neither combat, nor bombardment. The August 10th 1944, fourteen notable of the city were taken as hostages and deportees with the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dora and Elrich; only three people returned from there.

Economy

agriculture a long time occupied a dominating place, one there still produced corn, barley, beet and in a less proportion of corn, sunflower and colza. The breeding which was important formerly, completely disappeared.

Administration

|- | align=right| March 2001 || ||M.Christian Blumenfeld ||align=" center" | UMP ||General adviser of the Canton of Puiseaux

Famous characters

Birthplace of the sculptor Jules Blanchard (1832-1916).

Places and monuments

Notre-Dame church

the church of Puiseaux, built at the 13th century, has remarkable a twisted Clocher bores some, very regular, which rises with 65 meters in height, twisted of a eighth of turn. The arrow itself measures about thirty meters. It was believed a long time that it was about a work of a master carpenter, a recent study shows that it would be due to a bad wood seasoning forming the king post. There is in France a good about sixty bell-towers of this type. (to see article). In the beginning the bell-tower was surmounted by a square tower with a pyramidal roof; on a level going back to 1497 one sees that the church has a sumonté square bell-tower of a roof with four sides. It is thought that at the beginning of the 16th century, during the great work completed under the influence of the Rély prior, it was elevated of an octagonal stage with an of the same arrow forms. An engraving going back to 1612 watch the church with its perfectly right bell-tower. It is known that in 1794 a fire devastated the bell-tower. It was repaired, but the wood of the king post was undoubtedly not dry enough, which caused the torsion of the unit. A table of Paul Balze going back to 1850 watch the church with its twisted bell-tower. When the bell-tower is visited one realizes that the punch is twisted, that the tenons yawn in the mortises and that ankles were broken. The torsion of the arrow is thus quite accidental, however it is of a perfect regularity.

The central gate carries some carved elements:

on the left a vine grower cuts his vine with his billhook
on the right a vine grower collects the grape
in the center of the tympanum the Virgin nurses the child Jesus, it has one center.

Inside, the walls are still covered with paintings dating from the 19th century.

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