Rethel

Rethel is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Its inhabitants is called the rethélois.

Sub-prefecture of the department of the the Ardennes.

Altitude 74 Mr. - 8679 inhabitants.

History

Its foundation would be due to Jules César which would have established there its camp One reads in the life of Saint Arnould, bishop of Metz, that Cyriaque, his/her father, and Quintienne, his mother, gave to Saint Remi, bishop of Rheims, all that they had in villa Reistete , to obtain to sky a son of his prayers.

The small city belongs then to the Abbey of Saint-Remy cheese of Rheims and is managed by solicitors. One of them, Manassès {{Ier}}, is entitled count de Rethel. The city is then the seat of a county set up in Pairie (1405), in duchy (1581) and which became in 1663 the Duché of Mazarin. ( to also see: List of the counts then dukes of Rethel)

“Rethel gracefully spreads top of a hill until on the river of Aisne…” Victor Hugo (the Rhine 1836) … This river whose passage was the cause of many battles (1411, 1543, 1650, 1814, 1870, 1914, 1940)

In 1814, the Spanish prisoners of war import the Typhus in Rethel. Jean-Baptiste Riberotte-Labesse lavishes his care with the soldiers who are reached. In 1832 and 1849, the Choléra bursts in Rethel; in 1839, it is the Typhoid fever which makes enormous devastations with Barby, deaths amounted per about thirty each day.

City council man since 1830, to advise district, assistant with the mayor during 20 years, general adviser to the war.

In 1869, Mr. Riberotte was named mayor of Rethel.

Administration

Great dates related to the commune

Personalities related to the commune

Celebrities

Rethel is the birthplace of:

Jacques Butcher of Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788 - 1868), Geologist and Paleologist
Louis Christophe François Hatchet (1800 - 1864), editor
Henri Jadart
Jean-Baptiste Riberotte-Labesse (1794-1875), doctor-doctor, mayor of Rethel in 1869 and 1870, chevalier of the Legion of Honor, officer of Academy.
Maurice Shirt, Movie actor.
Sorbon is a village, in the vicinity, which gave its name, thanks to the Chanoine Robert de Sorbon (the name of the village was often transformed into family name with the Moyen-âge), with the Sorbonne (Université of Paris).
Charles Constant Noblet

Rethel is the old place of residence of:

Theodore Karcher
Benjamin Lemaire, Realizer
Louis Jouvet, actor, passed his childhood there (his/her mother being originating in the city).

Rethel was represented with the House of Commons by:

Louis Mortimer Ternaux

Culture

Rethel is the " capital européenne" White pudding.

Sport

Rethel accommodates a team of Roller in line hockey called RHRA (Roller Hockey Rethel the Ardennes) whose team of N1 is champion of Europe, of France and the cut of France.

Places and monuments

the museum of Rethelois and Porcien
the church Saint Nicolas's Day de Rethel
the walk of Isles
the view-point
the cross of Ardalu

See too

Rethel is a stage of the Route of Porcien.

External bond

Site of Roller Hockey Rethel the Ardennes
the life rémoise

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