Revin

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

Its inhabitants is called Revinois.

Total population (2006) 8.089 hab.

Geography

3rd city of the Ardennes Revin is registered, in the Valley of the Meuse. If its old frame attaches it to the point of Givet, its industrial character attaches it to the " country of Labeur" who court of Nouzonville to Laifour. At the bottom of a valley dug in the of the Ardennes schistous solid mass, Revin is in the middle of the meanders of the Meuse. It is located at the confluence of the latter and the Faux.

The city is the junction point of two secondary roads:

the RD 988 which, since Cliron, led to Givet,
the RD 1 which, coming from Rocroi crosses the commune in direction of Monthermé.

The commune extended, in several periods, on three meanders of the Meuse in six districts:

the old center,
the Countryside,
the district of Bouverie,
the district of Sartnizon,
the district of Bryas Wood,
the district of Orzy.

History

Revin, an old frank ground

The traces of Revin in the writings dating from the Antiquité are rare. However, it is refers to a named village Ravinium (due to the enclavement of the city in a ravine) in Latin texts. At the end of antiquity, it is mentioned the presence of an abbey which was devastated by the Vikings who descended the course from the Meuse. After the foundation of the Abbey of Prüm by the Bertrade queen in 760, Pépin the Brief made the donation at this young community of a whole of grounds of which those corresponding, today, with the communes of Revin, Fumay and Fépin. Also, in order to represent it on the spot, the Lord Abbot will indicate, to represent it and protect his grounds, a Solicitor whose load will be transmitted by heritage or sale. The place and the growing role of the Solicitor will lead to the signature of payment of avouery which, fixing the rights of the two Lords, also inform us of the daily life of the inhabitants which also see themselves granting the statute of middle-class man. This particular status and this management style will be one of the bases on which will be pressed the Kingdom of France and the Netherlands in the control of the border zones of each of the two States. This fight will be completed by the fastening of these boroughs in France during the signature of the Treaty of the Limits of 1769.

Revin, of the forestry borough at the industrial town

In the beginning, Revin saw primarily sylviculture whose productions are conveyed by the river. One also raises several forging mills along the valley of the Forgery and the brooks of the locality of the Small Commune, close to the commune of Laifour whose origin goes back to the XVIIe century.
En 1840, the installation of the secondary roads, in particular the current RD988, roads is accompanied by the construction of the two bridges located, the first between Bouverie and the old center, the second towards Bryas Wood. The installation of the railway of Charleville to Givet, the construction of the railway station in the district of Bouverie, inaugurated in 1862, are the catalysts of the economic advancement of the city, which concentrates at the beginning on this sector of the commune. The day before the Great War, one counts 21 factories in the commune. 3000 workmen work there. Let us quote, shovel-mixes: Martin, Faure, the foundry E. Hénon, the establishments Mauguière wire and Béroudiaux, Lebeau and Co, etc. Those, after the 4 years of war, and of the German occupation, are at the origin of an important population increase. Also, it is between the two wars which see the day the Faure cities in Sartnizon. The Second world war will stop any activity and will remain marked by the tragedy of Manises where 106 resistant will find death “in atrocious circumstances at the time of the extermination of the Maquis of Manises”. The Thirty Glorious ones see the activity of Revin and its demography to increase. It is housing construction in the Countryside, of the HLM of Orzy and Wood Bryas, city at the origin of the Porcher establishments. The crisis of the iron and steel industry will strike the city and the area of full whip, involving a continuous erosion of its number of inhabitants. Today, the city, by the development of new activities, like tourist animation, a cultural activity around the room Jean Vilar and its associative fabric, bets on its future. With the industrial sphere, the Ardam-Electrolux companies and Pig-keeper-Sanifrance remain the principal local employers.

Administration

Demography

Animation

Festivals and local demonstrations

Several festivals animate the commune each year:

Fête of the Bread (Pentecost)
Festival of Smuggling
Go of the Image
Fête of Nature (July)
the annual stock sale,
secondhand trade. (July)

The house of the social dialog

This site shelters the seat of several associations, of which the Youth hostel and the AREL (Association Revinoise d' Education and of Leisures).

Culture

Civil buildings and monuments

The Rocheteau park, and its house of Master, are old properties of the Faure family. The site shelters the municipal files today, a contemporary art gallery open all the year, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, proposing a regular cycle of exposure and the Hearth of Old

The Spanish house, registered with the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings, is one of the construction emblématiques of the commune. It is about a half-timbered house, probably built in XVIe century and property of a merchant. “As for the origin of its name, it is undoubtedly about the memory of the Spanish occupation which Revin undergoes whose neutrality was many times violated as well by the troops of the Kingdom of France as by those of the Empire. ” The Spanish House accommodates the Tourist office of Revin as well as a space museographic devoted to the metallurgy revinoise. Space also proposes, during the summer period, of the temporary exhibitions.

the room Jean Vilar, of a capacity of 400 places, was inaugurated in 1985. This room, located in limit of the old center and the district of the Countryside, accommodates programming of spectacles throughout the year (to be consulted on the official site of the town of Revin), of the companies in residence as well as temporary exhibitions.

June 13rd, 1944, the S carried out in the forest of Despite everything, 105 resistant, including 73 revinois. On the road known as of Despite everything, which leads to High-Ridged, was inaugurated, on June 27th, 1948 an imposing memorial, carried out by the sculptor Henri Louis.

The old school Jean Macé which is next to the church and the court of the convents.

Religious buildings

the parish church Notre Dame

In the beginning, the Notre Dame church belonged to the various buildings of a convent the Dominican ones. Its origin goes back to the XVIIe century when, in 1642, several nuns came to base a house of the order on the authorization of Claire-Eugenie d' Aremberg, Princesse of Chimay, and lord of the place. Bad relations with the inhabitants caused their departure and, in 1649, Philippe, Prince de Chimay, made them replace by Valencian monks Dominicains coming from . In addition to the church, rebuilt in 1706, the convent also included/understood a college, founded in 1774. The community was dissolved with the French revolution. In 1791, the old vault of Dominican became the new parish church of the borough, the building making function hitherto having become too decayed. The old dependences of the monks were transformed into public school. A big fire, in 1886, destroyed most of the old convent and church, which was partly rebuilt. In a niche of the frontage of the building, one can observe a cast iron Virgin, gift of the Faure family. This one was restored with the beginning of the year 2000 by the sculptor Herve Tonglet. The building, as well as part of its furniture, are registered with the Additional Inventory of the Historic buildings.

Higher education and research

College Jean Moulin (LEGT and LEP)

Personalities related to the commune

Birth of Charles Rene Billuart in 1685, monk of the Convent of the Dominican ones. Its effigy, in the shape of a statue, is visible in the heart of the parish church Notre Dame.

To go further

Regional bibliography

Ardouin Dumazet, Voyage in France, 2nd series: High Picardy, Champagne rémoise, the Ardennes , Levrault Shepherd, 1899.
Jean Hubert, Department of the Ardennes, historical and geographical dictionary , Editions LMBO Universis, 1991. Republication of 1855.
Firmin Lentacker, the Franco-Belgian border, geographical study of the effects of an international border on the life of relations , Walloon Printing works Morel and Gorduant, Lille, 1974
François Lorent, Notre-Dame de Revin in Ardenne n°105. 2nd quarter 2006
Albert Meyrac, Illustrated Geography of the Ardennes , Edouard Jolly Editor, Charleville, 1899.
Close Leon, Salte quarries of Ardenne , editions Of the Ardennes Grounds, Charleville-Mézières, 1987 (ISBN 2905339063).

bonds Internet

Official site of the Town of Revin
site of the association of local history Ardenne Walloon
site devoted to the massacre of Manises
http://perso.orange.fr/arel/accueil_historique.htm Site of association AREL
http://www.fmr-arel.com the site of the " Fantastic Revinoise" Pack; (theater)

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