Rialet

Rialet is a common French, located in the department of the Tarn and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

The village is crossed by the Route of Angles in Mazamet (to 15 km).

Geography

Small mountainous commune of the Tarn, perched with 700 meters of altitude, Rialet is located in the district of Mazamet-North-Is, with the limit of the canton of Brassac, in the East of Boissezon, the North of the Vintrou and close to Anglès. Rialet makes party of the community of Agglomération Castres - Mazamet.

History

On the historical level, one raises primarily the place that the area of Rialet played during the Second world war. The area of Rialet sheltered in 1944 a hearth of resistance known under the name of Irregular force of Sidobre. In retaliatory measure to this local resistance, the Germans burned the smallholdings of PLANE SAGNE and the CATIE.

August 12th, 1944 a skirmish had place in Rialet between men of the irregular force and two groups German. The men of the maquis tackled the German detachment which was constrained to escape, by leaving behind him a wounded German soldier. This soldier, touched with the arm, was looked after by inhabitants of Rialet. Once the lavished care, the inhabitants informed the headquarters of Mazamet to come to seek the casualty.

In the course of the day, a group of three Germans thus went to Rialet to seek their companion. But while going down again towards Mazamet, were attacked by the men of the maquis, who had remained embusqués in the vicinity. An exchange of shots resulted in the death of the one of the Germans, and the wounds for the other member of the group. They were constrained to turn back and to seek refuge and care in Rialet.

Informed this second attack in the same day, Mazamet dispatched a more important military detachment composed of several small armoured tanks. According to local sources, the Germans hesitated to burn the village in reprisal of the attack, then ravisèrent themselves, either because of the decent treatments lavished to the casualties, or because they were in a hurry to find the authors of the attack.

Administration

Demography

With the image many rural communes of France, it was marked by the rural migration. Rialet counted 228 inhabitants in 1914. There is no more trade on the commune.

Places and monuments

the Church is dedicated to the Nativity of the celebrated Blessed Virgin on September 8th. It is a building of charm going back XIXe century formerly overcome to a bell-tower with arrow destroys by the lightning little time after its construction.

This building replaced a smaller church surrounded by a cemetery. Only remains a bell of XVIeme century

Stèle of the Irregular force of the SIDOBRE, out of granite, inaugurated on May 10th, 1980

Personalities related to the commune

Schabaver Family. Ignace Schabaver (1834-1911), industrialist of Alsatian origin acquires about 1880 a field in Rialet. He leaves major the school of the Art-and-Trades of Châlons (the " Gadzarts ") and marries the girl of an industrialist of Castres, Nestor Delpech, of which it took again the company. Associated with his Fourès colleague, it develops a series of centrifugal pumps and the Fontaine turbine, successfully, since the town of Narbonne, Monaco, the steel-works of the Jump of the Tarn were equipped by its care.

His/her son, Paul Schabaver (1869-1934) took again the company and was mayor of Rialet. The company Schabaver de Castres was sold after the Second world war, and was repurchased by a German-American group which has it still today.

Pech family This family of high-ranking magistrates succeeded by alliance Schabaver. Jean Pech (1900-1989), Officer of the Legion of Honor, was Public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Bourges

MAYORS: 1934-1971 François BERRY 1971-1995 Bernard RAYNAUD Founding member of the community of agglomeration CASTRATE MAZAMET 1995-2001 Jacques BERRY 2001 Francis BOUZAC

See too

Common of the Tarn

External bonds

Site on the history of the irregular force of Sidobre

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

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