Ribérac

Geography

Commune located on the Drone

History

In 1793, the commune of Faye amalgamates with Ribérac .

In 1851, part of the commune of Ribérac was dismembered to create the new commune of Saint-Martin-with-Ribérac.

Ribérac is old a Sous-préfecture, removed by Order in Council of September 10th, 1926.

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

Arnaut Daniel, one of most famous the Troubadour S, born in Ribérac about 1150; the college of the city bears its name
Jean-Pierre Escalettes, President-in-Office of the French federation of Football, was English professor with Ribérac
Pierre Courtens born with Brussels in 1921 lived and deceased in Ribérac in 2004, third generation of painters with his brother Jacques Courtens, wire of Hermann Courtens, small son of Franz Courtens
Francisco Contreras Valenzuela, poet, critical, essay writer and Chilean writer, born in Quirihue in 1877 deceased in Paris in 1933. It was one of the most important ambassadors of the American literature latino in Europe and inspired good number of famous authors of America of the South. Father of Mundonovismo, it collaborated regularly in the sides of Valette and Rachilde to Mercure de France. Married with the ribéracoise Andréa Alphonse (which settled in Chile in 1936 until its death in 1991), they opened each Tuesday their living room of the street the Glassmaker in Paris with the cultural and political personalities. Thus, they attended the prince of the poets Paul Fort, Paul Léautaud, Picasso, Dali, Einstein or Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov says Lénine. Reached tuberculosis, Francisco Contreras died in 1933 was buried in Ribérac in the family vault of his wife Andréa Alphonse. Its ashes were transferred to Chile in March 2007, in accordance with its wishes and thanks to the joint action and voluntary of Carlos Munoz Nunez of Santiago and Nicolas Plato of Ribérac.This occasion of the homages were returned to him at the National library of Santiago, the house of the writers founded by Pablo Neruda and in its birthplace of Quirihue where it rests, after 73 years of total lapse of memory, near its wife and of her son. At the time of the return of its ashes Corporación Cultural Ribérac was founded by Luis Will counter Jara, Carlos Nunoz Munez and French Nicolas Plato. By greeting the gesture carried out by this last, the national congress of Chile decided to finance a monument with the memory of the poet writer essay writer.
Alexandre François Xavier Moreau, abbot, born in Ribérac 29 02 1816, died in Gradignan (33) 04 02 1897, cleaned with Rauzan (33) chaplain with the Montaigne college of Bordeaux, founder of the Mutual Help of Xavier Arnozan, director of the agricultural orphanage of the field of Monjous (for 200 children) with Gradignan (33)

Monseigneur Maxime Charles (born in Ribérac in 1908, died in Paris in 1993), priest of the diocese of Paris, was the chaplain of the Sorbonne of 1944 to 1959, founder of the Richelieu Center and the Résurrection review in 1956.

He played a determining role in the pastoral revival which preceded the council the Vatican II, in particular by his precursory role of the apostolate of laic, while being pressed on the militant students to make Center Richelieu hearth of a theological and liturgical reflection, which was essential at the time like the single alternative to the Marxist organization of the student trade unions for the Parisian students. The divergences appeared quickly between the JEC and the Center Richelieu, Mgr Charles estimating as of 1948 that “the JEC takes too many risks with the Communists”.

After its departure for the vice-chancellorship of the basilica of Montmartre, in 1959, Mgr Charles was replaced in the Richelieu Center by the abbot Jean-Marie Lustiger.

Mgr Charles was according to the Cardinal Daniélou “the man of action more the theologist and the theologist more the man of action”, able as well to mobilize more than ten thousand students in Sorbonne for the pilgrimage of Chartres to draw from the Bible and the Fathers of the Church to renew the eucharistic worship.

See too

Common of the Dordogne

External bonds

Ribérac on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ribérac on the site of INSEE
Ribérac on the site of Quid
Localization of Ribérac on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ribérac on Mapquest
At the beginning of Ribérac, of the activities in all Périgord: Sporting, cultural, festivals, art galleries, markets, guided visits…

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