Pujols

Pujols is a common French, located in the department of the Ariège and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called Pujolais.

Geography

History

After having been a possession of the County of Foix, Pujols belong to XIIe century with the Seigniory of Mirepoix (then in Languedoc). Its church remained related as for it to the Saint-Volusien abbey of Foix. At the time of the War One hundred Year old, the Borough and more precisely its castle (disappeared today) were the camp of truck drivers who ransacked the neighborhoods. The city is taken again by Arnoul d' Audrehem, then Marshal of France, in 1363. It gives it to the Lord of Mirepoix, without omitting to make him pay the expenses of war, and especially to impose a fine to him not to have defended the country.

At XIXe and the beginning of the XXe century, one manufactured in Pujols of the tiles and bricks.

Nowadays, the village has an Aerodrome. Created in 1976, it forms pilot, acrobats, parachutists, and is the place of construction amateur. This aerodrome is managed by the Chamber of commerce and of industry of Ariège.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

strengthened Church Saint-Blaise:

The Wall-bell-tower, crowned of 9 crenels, goes back to 1333. The gate of the church (on a side of the building) also goes up him in XIVe century (former to 1350). It is red sandstone, with three archivolts in gothic arch. This inscription there is read: " Renaud IV of Pons, son-in-law of the duke of Lévis (1296-1335) ". Are also visible the weapons of the consulate of Pujols and the escutcheon of Renaud IV of Pons (known as Rudel) which had built the bell-tower at the end of XIIIe century. To understand, it should be noted that this gate would go back to a former sanctuary (which was plundered and set fire to by the bandouliers in 1293

The church in it even completion date of XIIIe or the beginning of XIVe century.

Fountain: realized in 1893 by the architect Emile Sauret (who in other carried out the fountain-laundrettes of Country house-with-Lordat, Saint-Tinder and Saint-Paul-with-Jarrat)

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Ariège

External bonds

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

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