Quincampoix

Geography

History

Origins: first occupation of the ground

Except a stone raised in the wood of the fields, the territory of the commune of Quincampoix does not carry a visible trace of an old occupation. However some vestiges raised in the common neighbors give rise to think that the plate between Cailly and Robec densément was rather densément populated at the time Roman.

Life and Organization of a rural community; Community structures

Until the Revolution, the church was the only public building. Its role was not limited to the celebration of the worship. At the conclusion of the parochial mass or vespers, were held of the deliberative assemblies, or were made to with it decisions which engaged the life of the community.

Place of worship and meeting room, the church was the property of a moral person, the Factory, more commonly called the Treasury. To the church two appendices were added: the cemetery and the vicarial house. The presbytery enjoyed a special statute. The priest and the Factory returned consents separated in 1774. The Factory took care of the menus work to the church, maintained the house the vicar and covered the expenses of worship.

The management of the funds from day to day was entrusted to a treasurer in load. One year in advance, the assembly of the parishioners designated her successor: the treasurer of the Dish of the Departeds. As its name indicates it, it collected the funds intended to make say masses for the late ones. The functions of the treasurers ended the Whit Sunday.

In each parish, the cashing of the tax was done under the responsibility of an occasional tax collector, the building drain of the sizes. This work was not based on voluntariate and one carried out it in turn.

The priest and the parish are subjected to a monitoring supported on behalf of the religious authorities. The register of the factory announces the frequent passage of the archdeacon or, with his defect, of the senior of Cailly.

In November 1688, an ordinance of Louvois had creates provincial militia. It established the principle of an obligatory military service, to which were likely compelled beings the rural single people from 20 to 40 years. The equipment and the maintenance of the militiamans were paid by their community of origin.

The service of the militia was always regarded as a calamity in the campaigns. One hastened to celebrate a marriage to escape from it.

The priest intervenes like relay between the government and the local population. Situation ambiguity which did not shock anybody in a country or Catholicism was religion of state. The confusion of the kinds was the rule. In 1695, Louis XIV ordered the construction of cross to the crossroads. Quincampoix had two martyrdoms of wood which were maintained until the Revolution.

With the imitation of the lord who had his bench appointed with the church, the noble families of the parish, in the last quarter of, are made concede reserved places.

Charity was an association which existed in the majority of the parishes and of which the mission was to deal with the funeral of the faithful ones. It held at the same time of the company of undertaking and the supposed brotherhood to contribute to the construction of its members. It was placed under the protection of the owner of the parish church, to which other saints were added. Following the example our modern associations, each Charity was equipped with statutes approved by the authority diocésaine.

A village under the Revolution

Constitutional monarchy (1789-1792) with Convention

The recasting of the administrative organization of the Old Mode resulted in the creation of new districts: departments, districts, cantons and communes.

The district of Rouen counted 9 cantons, among which appeared Quincampoix, Saint-Jacques-on-Darnétal, Cailly and Montville.

The department division was altered in 1800 pennies the Consulate and the districts disappeared. They were replaced by 5 districts: Rouen, Neufchâtel, Dieppe, Yvetot and Le Havre.

The chart of the cantons was redrawn, Quincampoix was attached to the new canton of Clères. Decision which should not surprise; Clères was number of the 7 localities of the district of Rouen which had a market, a right inherited the Old Mode.

The removal of the canton of Quincampoix had already been considered at the end of the Directory, with the great agitation of the elected officials. To avoid its disappearance, they had proposed its extension to the detriment of the neighbors.

Of Jeanne d' Arc with Henry IV

After, in 1429, having released Orleans and makes crown Charles VII in Rheims, Jeanne d' Arc fails in front of Compiegne in 1430.

Captured, it is directed towards Rouen to be judged there. Supply under escort with Bosc-the-Hardware, then Cailly, it was to necessarily pass to Quincampoix on December 24th, 1430.

At the time, two possible ways to join via Wood-Guillaume and the door Bullfinch, the fortress of Rouen: the current street of Cailly or, by Fountain-the-Borough, a road replaced since by the current road of Dieppe, about on the same layout. One leans for the current street of Cailly, which crossed inhabited places, of which Quincampoix. The other route skirted and even crossed the forest. Times were difficult, of the groups of partisans haunted wood and the possibility of releasing Jeanne, at the very least to draw ransom from it would not have failed to attract the partisans of the king and even brigands.

During the One hundred year old War, the area has to undergo the passage of people of war: English, French, Flayers, Large Companies…

Then they are the wars of religion. Henry IV operates in the area: 1589, Arch; 1590, Ivry; 1591-1592, head office of Rouen.

From 1580 to 1592, the country is devastated once again. The troops of Philippe II, king d' Espagne, ordered by Prince Farnèse, station in our area and cause many damage. The castle of Bucaille is flaring.

The conversion of Henry IV (1591), his entry in Paris then the peace of Vervins (1598) will put an end to this turbid period, and Quincampoix can live again.

The civil statue

In 1539, François Ier signed the ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts which, inter alia regulations, made obligation with the priests and vicars to hold a register of the baptisms by them celebrated and written in French.

In 1579, a new ordinance supplemented these provisions by the obligation to note the celebration of the marriages and the burials, and to hold the registers in double specimen, of which one would be transmitted to the end of each year to the bailliage (royal administration).

These documents concerned obviously only the followers of the Catholic religion and are called of this fact registers of catholicity. They constitute the ancestors of our current civil statue founded by the Revolution, supplemented by various indications of which that, invaluable, of the profession of interested which was previously optional and often absent.

The installation of the registers of catholicity took a few years. In Quincampoix, the first register goes back to 1604.

Files

If the civil statue of Quincampoix is well preserved, the municipal files (deliberations of the municipal council and mail of the mayor) suffered from the war. The town hall was occupied by the German army, transferred during one moment to the school road from Neufchâtel. So reports of the time of the Revolution are well indexed with the departmental records, there remains no administrative document between this period and 1840.

To 1754 construction goes back from the royal road of Rouen with Saint-Omer, who became imperial road, trunk road but, for the buildings, will be always the road of Neufchâtel.

From 1840 with the Great War

In 1853: creation of a gendarmerie squad to horse and construction of quartering: brick building, of two stages to the angle of the place of the Town hall and the road of Neufchâtel. In 1887, the gendarmerie will become with foot and current quartering will be built in 1908. January 1st, 1863, construction of a post office. It will be equipped with the telegraph in 1907. 1863, Plantation on the place of 15 chestnut trees and limes, spaced enough not to obstruct the inhabitants. July 1st, 1863, Estimate for construction of a church and, October 7th, decision to build a church to replace current, extremely dilapidated. The first stone of our church was posed on June 12th, 1865, and the inauguration took place on July 13rd, 1868. The cemetery which surrounded the church was judged into 1695 of a “remarkable extent”: 1 acre and half, is 80 to 85 ares. In 1868, land surveying indicates: 30 ares and 85 centiares, without counting the site of the church. The cross of the cemetery was set up between 1560 and 1580. In 1870, construction of the school of the girls, current pharmacy.

The road of Neufchâtel

In 1900, the road of Neufchâtel is animated by many attachments: farmers selling their products in Rouen, wood merchants, cider apple delivery at the season, goods transport various. When they arrived very early at the New World, the carters claquaient whip, awaking the café owners who lit fire at once and heated the coffee.

Quincampoix was the usual pause with its coffees, its marshal-shoeing which one awoke in haste if a horse lost an iron. The horses also benefitted from the pause: bucket of water and oats haversack. Then, comforted, one set out again towards the city.

In 1910, the cultural life and festive is active in Quincampoix. One notes the Lyric Circle, the Philharmonic Union, the Circle of Dance, the Truck, of the annual meetings, in addition to the traditional employers' festival of the Holy-Marguerite, take place in the districts, the High Pear trees, the Norman Valley, the Hamlets. Mr Choquet, with his violin, animates balls assembled on a barrel that jokers one day, décerclèrent, precipitant with ground the violonist. The hard daily life was forgotten in these assembled strapping women or one went in family.

In 1913, Formation of sporting companies: The Merry Pedal and the Shooting club.

Inter-war period

In 1920, a subject will divide the commune: the war memorial of 1914-1918. The war veterans, who were to be “plain as with the face”, separate in two associations. The ones want the monument in the cemetery with a religious ceremony, the others want it on the place. After dissolution of the committee, referendum, refunding of the subscribers, the monument will anyway be set up in the communal cemetery, but two rival associations war veterans persisted until the end of the War of 1939-1945, or all met finally.

It is in 1923 qu' takes place the plantation of limes on the place. There remains only the alley of the Church about it.

In 1930, Henri Spares, harness-maker with Quincampoix and curious about local history, had been pilot discovery, with the farm of Houssaye, old tombs which had seemed to him to be burials mérovingiennes. To prevent that these discoveries do not obstruct the ploughing of its field, the Clavel farmer balanced the whole in any fill!

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The famous racing cyclist Jacques Anquetil lived there, a commemorative stele is in good place in the center of the village.

And too

The Quincampoix is a river of Ille-et-Vilaine.

See too

Common of the Seine-Maritime

External bonds

the Site of the Town hall of Quincampoix
Quincampoix on the site of the national geographical Institute
Quincampoix on the site of INSEE
Quincampoix on the site of Quid
Localization of Quincampoix on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Quincampoix on Mapquest

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