Rochemaure

Rochemaure is a common French, located in the department of the Ardèche and the area the Rhone-Alps, in the old historical area of the Vivarais.

Geography

Administration

Rochemaure belongs to the community of communes of Bars-Coiron.

Demography

Places and monuments

Places:

the peak of Chenavari is a basaltic peak, remains of old a Volcan, easy of access, which offers a very wide sight on the the Rhone, low the Ardèche, the Baronnies and the Vercors.

Monuments:

the castle of Rochemaure of the 12th century is in ruin.
the district of the castle is next to it.
the old bridge is old a Suspended bridge which crosses the the Rhone. It is not any more in service since 1982.
the Château of Joviac is in fact a contemporary agricultural vast domain with Olivier de Serres (1536 - 1616). It presents a remarkable hydraulic system in perfect state which one can follow until the stopping.

Economy

The village counts some trade and artisanal companies, of which an exploitation of the source of the Priory. It profits from the proximity of Montélimar and the Nuclear plant of Cruas.

Events

The has ssociation for the P romotion of the S pectacles with the C hâteau of R ochemaure presents each year in July a popular son et lumi2ere display to the castle of Rochemaure, which has a promotional Internet site. The recent spectacles had as a title:

2007: " The crown of satan"
2006: " The voice of the ombre"
2005: " The black book of Maspertus"
2004: " Tears of Aliénor"
2003: " The legend of the wood of Val"
2002: " The fabric of Galaad"
2001: " Light of pierre"
2000: " Greenhouses of the temps"
1999: " Graal"
1998: " Wolf-garou"
1997: " Way of repentance"
1996: " Sortilège"
1995: " Witch in vivarais"
1994: " Révolution"
1993: " Crusade of the enfants"
1992: " Légendes"
1991: " Fresco historique"
1990: " The Rhone and Chenavari"

Personalities related to the commune

The Adhémar de Monteil, lords then barons de Rochemaure, maternal ancestors of the House of Rohan Lévis-Ventadour, whose last representatives of the branch of Soubise were barons de Rochemaure during the major part of the XVIIIe century.

Louis de Lévis, duke of Ventadour, baron de Rochemaure, deceased on September 28th, 1717, husband of Charlotte-Eléonore-Magdeleine of the Mound-Houdancourt, father of AsGeneviève of Lévis-Ventadour (below).

Louis Jules François de Rohan, prince de Soubise, duke of Rohan-Rohan, (January 16th, 1697 - Paris, May 6th, 1724), baron de Rochemaure which belonged to the dowry of his/her mother of [[Hercules-Mériadec de Rohan, prince de Soubise], duke of Rohan-Rohan (1669-Paris, Midsummer's Day parish in Strike, January 26th, 1749), governor of the provinces of Champagne and Brie, married on February 19th, 1694 with Anne-Geneviève of Lévis-Ventadour (February 10th, 1673 - March 21st, 1727), lady of Rochemaure, Controlling royal children.

Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, duke of Rohan-Rohan, (Versailles, July 16th, 1715 - Paris, July 1st, 1787), friendly close friend of Louis XV, par and Marshal of France, baron de Rochemaure of the month of May 1724 until April 1784 - date on which it yields the baronnie to Claude Garnier-Deshières -, count of Tournon and Voulte, captain lieutenant of the gendarmes of the Guard of the king, governor of the provinces of Flandres and Hainaut. Wire of Louis Jules François de Rohan and Anne of Melun d' Épinoy, he successively marries, in 1734, Anne-Marie girl of Emmanuel-Théodose of the Tower of Auvergne, duke of Bubble (from where a girl, Charlotte-Godefride, wife of Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, prince of Condé); in 1741, Therese of Savoy-Carignan (from where a girl, Victoire, duchess of Rohan-Montbazon, princess of Guéménée); finally, on December 24th, 1745, AsVictoire of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rothenburg (without posterity).

Jacques Ier d' Hilaire de Jovyac (Vans, v. 1565-Rochemaure, castle of Jovyac, v. January 1632, buried in the church NR. D. of the Angels of Rochemaure, vault Holy-Anne), knight, lord of Jovyac, Plans, Peyroles, Faysses, Cheyroux and other places, governor of the city and the castle of Rochemaure in May 1592, captain of one hundred men-at-arms, convert to Catholicism, author of eleven or twelve works in favor of the Catholic religion, on the subject of which the king Henri IV wrote to him: " You avès faict cognoistre that you scavès according to the tems aussy well Mestre the hand with the feather that with the espée". The king granted to him, on February 8th, 1610, an ordinary patent of gentleman of his room. April 3rd of the same year, the pope Paul V sent a brief to him to tell him the great joy which it tested of his conversion. Jacques de Jovyac is the author of the currency of his family, which evokes violent criticisms of which it was the object on behalf of the Protestants, her former co-religionists, at the time of her conversion with Catholicism: " Fay well and lets say! ". One even says that he had initially written, with a small point of mischievousness: " Fay well and leaves braire! ". (Sources: Baconnier canon: " Family and castle of Jovyac" in Re-examined of Vivarais, divides into volumes LXXI, n° 2 1967, p. 74; particular documents).

Jacques III of Hilaire de Jovyac, great-grandson of the precedent, wire of François and Louise de Sauzéa (Rochemaure, castle of Jovyac, July 26th, 1655 - Castle of Jovyac, January 1723, buried in its vault, in the old church of Teil (Teil - Ardeche), first marquis de Jovyac, lord of Teil and the Viscount of Mélas by contract of acquisition signed to Grenoble on June 6th, 1717, at the price of 42.000 books, of the marquis de Forbin-Janson, widower of Justine de Prunier of Saint-Andrew, colonel of the regiment of his name, knight of Saint-Louis. Initially cornet in the regiment of Pracomtal-cavalry in 1677, lieutenant in 1679, captain-major then lieutenant-colonel with the regiment of Vogues the March 4th, 1689 and April 12th, 1695, he became colonel of the same regiment on March 28th, 1696, during the stay of this regiment in Savoy. April 16th, 1696, Mr. de Vogüé having left the regiment, this one took from now on the name of Jovyac. At the time of the stay which accomplished in Chambéry Mr. de Jovyac, during this same year 1696, it an incident " produced there; who highlighted confidence, the consideration and the influence which it had been acquired by his merit. It rose between the inhabitants of Chambéry and three French regiments which were in garrison in this city, a sharp argument, which degenerated into tumult général". Mr. de Jovyac having intervened " with wisdom and fermeté" , the calm one and peace were restored in little time. " With fires of joye that it was made by it by all the city to celebrate this reconciliation, all resounds of the cries of joye of: Savoye and Jovyac live! ". Mr. de Gaut, first president of the Senate of Savoy, by pointing out this glorious episode of the life of Jacques d' Hilaire de Jovyac, " excel it memory enjoyed to attest which the city had preserved of this brilliance officier". At the end of 1696, the regiment of Jovyac left for Catalonia and in this occasion, Mr. de Jovyac " could inspire with its men a so admirable entrain" that Mr. of Grignan, governor of Provence, son-in-law of Madam de Sévigné, wrote qu'" to him; he had given an account of it with pleasure " with the king. September 30th, 1697, little before peace and the signature of the second Treated of Ryswick, Louis XIV in person expressed with Mr. de Jovyac his satisfaction of the beautiful control which its regiment during the program had held. To this occasion, the king gave the order to the ten companies composing the regiment of Jovyac to leave the Catalogne to go to the Pastel, to Languedoc, and to place themselves at the disposal of the count of Broglie. In exchange of his regiment, which was laid off, colonel de Jovyac obtained the rank of general inspector of the militia posted on the the Rhone, the Ardèche and the Chassezac. In 1702, it chaired the States of Vivarais, like having been appointed of the nobility of the province at the preceding assembly of the States of Languedoc. During this same year 1702, he was colonel of the regiment of the militia of Vivarais and of 1703 with its death, he was " commander-in-chief of all the old women and new troops of low Vivarais" , and often even of those of high Vivarais which entrusted to him Mr. de Courten, their general. During the Plague which prevails in 1720 and 1721, it ordered the Régiment of Auvergne " posted on the Rhone to protect the entry from Vivarais" , also directing the medical cord to the surroundings of Langogne and Pradelles. " One can say that colonel d' Hilaire had been born for the command. Its high size, its beautiful imposing presence, its at the same time good, firm and honest character, its sharp intelligence, its wise decisions and practices gave him an authority without question - written of him one of its biographers, the Baconnier canon, who is not always to however tend with regard to the other family members -. Also the long services which it provides to its country he were always appreciated… ". In the many letters of praises attest which it accepted throughout its existence, of the king himself first of all, or characters as various as the Duc of Maine, governor of Languedoc, marshals of Broglie, Montrevel and Roquelaure, the marshal Duc of Villars, Jacques Fitz-James de Berwick, another, count Marshal of France of Grignan, governor of Provence, the Gualtiero cardinal, vice-legate of Avignon, Nicolas de Lamoignon de Basville, intendant of Languedoc, etc . Of his marriage, with Fish ponds, on February 5th, 1687 (signed contract with Jaujac) with Francoise Lasniel, girl of Antoine, Co-lord of Valvignères, and Magdeleine Herdsman, the marquis de Jovyac had nine children, of which a son and eight girls. (Sources: Baconnier canon: " Family and castle of Jovyac" in Re-examined of Vivarais, divides into volumes LXXI, numbers July 2nd, 3rd and 4th - September and October-December 1967; particular documents).

Jean-Antoine d' Hilaire of Toulon of Holy-Jalle, third marquis de Jovyac, grandson of the precedent and wire of Jacques IV of Hilaire of Toulon of Holy-Jalle, second marquis de Jovyac - heir to the family of Toulon to Holy-Jalle -, and of Anne Marie Josèphe Francoise de Moreton of Chabrillan (Montélimar, October 17th, 1731 - Rochemaure (Priory), June 17th, 1802, buried with the cemetery of NR. D. of the Angels). First of all cornet in the regiment of his/her uncle, the marquis de Chabrillan, he became captain with the regiment of Marbeuf-Dragons on July 14th, 1751. It is in this quality that in 1758, at the time of the descent of the English, it took part in the defense of Saint-Cast where it accepted a light wound. Colonel of the regiment of Pomegranates of France on December 1st, 1762, colonel of the provincial regiment of Anduze on August 4th, 1771, he became then successively colonel as a second of the regiment of the Lyonese (on April 18th, 1776), colonel of the provincial artillery regiment of Fère (on March 1st, 1778), sergeant (on March 1st, 1780), colonel of the regiment of Royal Pomegranates of the Lyonese (on April 13rd, 1780), finally marshal of the camps and armies of the king, on December 5th, 1781. February 1st, 1763, on the proposal of Etienne François de Choiseul, count de Stainville, future duke of Choiseul and Secretary of State of the War and the Navy, it accepted the cross of knight of the Ordre of Saint-Louis. The general of Jovyac withdrew service in 1786 and then lived on his grounds. Member of the assembly of the Nobility of the Vivarais, held with Villeneuve-with-Berg in 1789, it was elected appointed substitute for the nobility of the province to the General states of 1789. He left Jovyac on October 19th, 1791 to go to Lorraine, in the general-count de Rougrave-Salm, his father-in-law, then from there, emigrated successively in the Brabant and with Coblentz where he joined the army of the princes. In 1796, the general-marquis de Jovyac and his family lived Freiburg. In 1798, they remained with Münster, in Westphalia. " They lived there very modestly. The marchioness of Jovyac did work of seam and the parents remained in France sent sometimes subsides". During their emigration, their goods were confiscated. The castle of Jovyac, in particular, was sold like good of emigrant and was acquired by a shoe-maker rupismaurien named Marc Blache, who tried to start again the old activity of grinding there. At the time of the Consulate, the marquis de Jovyac, who languished far from his country, benefitted from the first amnesty to return. He and its family settled initially in Paris where they thought of being able to remain in a certain anonymity but soon, Jean-Antoine de Jovyac, patient and eager to re-examine his province, left with Pont-à-Mousson his wife and his children, requesting authorities a pass to go to take water with Saint-Laurent-the-Baths. This one was granted to him by the Parisian municipality on Thermidor 7 year X (July 26th, 1802), with faculty to go to Montélimar to make there to visit with his/her still alive brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, the deprivations which it had endured during its emigration, united with the emotion to find in Vivarais its dispersed goods, its tested and aged family, were right of its health and it died in Rochemaure, in the night from June 16th to 17th 1804, at the time of a visit which it returned to his cousin, the canon of Chabrillan, which lived withdrawn in the old priory Benedictine of Saint-Pierre of the Font. He had married with Villers-under-Prény (Meurthe-et-Moselle) on March 14th, 1769 (contract signed to Pont-à-Mousson on March 6th, 1769) Pierre Marguerite of Rougrave-Salm, countess of the Holy roman Empire, girl of Philippe Bernard Charles Theodore of Rougrave, count de Salm and of the Holy roman Empire, lieutenant-general of the camps and armies of the king, commander about Saint-Louis, and of Barbe Gabrielle de Gomberveau. Marguerite de Rougrave, deceased with Villers-under-Prény on April 3rd, 1833, at her grand-daughter, Mrs Bailly, had, says one, given the day to nineteen children of which two only arrived at the adulthood, both born in Lyon whereas the marquis de Jovyac, her husband, ordered the provincial regiment of Anduze: Filipino Gabrielle Jacqueline Barb , baptized with Lyon, parish Saint Martin's day d' Ainay, on December 4th, 1772, marries of the Pichon captain of which it had two children, then of the captain François Maxime Bonvalet (without posterity of this second marriage), and Hyacinthe Theodore Jacques Alexandre Joseph d' Hilaire of Toulon of Holy-Jalle, fourth and penultimate marquis de Jovyac, born in Lyon on April 6th, 1775, baptized the following day in the parish Saint Martin's day d' Ainay, deceased in Rochemaure, with the castle of Jovyac, on December 20th, 1852, buried in the church NR. D. of the Angels of Rochemaure, vault Holy-Anne (today Notre-Dame de Lourdes), general adviser ofArdeche, chief of the first troop of pomegranates of hunters of the Legion of Drome, chevalier of the Legion of Honor and about Saint-Louis, married in 1812 in Antoinette Pauline of Hautoy (1789-1831) including two children: Alfred Marie Therese Charles Joseph (1813-1881), fifth and last marquis de Jovyac, general adviser of Ardeche, chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and a girl, Louise Joséphine Delphine known as Pauline (1814-1887), marchioness of the Tower of the Pine-Montauban and Soyans then viscountess de Sieyès. (Sources: historical Service of defense (SHD), Vincennes; Baconnier canon: " Family and castle of Jovyac" in Re-examined of Vivarais, divides into volumes LXXI, numbers July 2nd, 3rd and 4th - September and October-December 1967; particular documents).

Jean-François Régis Privat says Privat-Lachamp (Rochemaure, June 23rd, 1759 - Torgau (Prussia), March 6th, 1814), soldier with the regiment of the Gardes-Françaises on June 7th, 1785, sergeant on September 1st, 1789, second lieutenant with the 102e regiment of infantry on February 16th, 1792, lieutenant on March 10th, 1793, associated provisional with the general adjudants on September 22nd, 1793, associated with the general adjudant Simon the 11 vendémiaire year IV, aide-de-camp of the general Hoche, whom it had met with the Gardes-Françaises and of which it was one of the friendly close relations, 5 messidor year IV. During the forwarding of Ireland, it was temporarily named major, by the general Hoche, the 26 frimaire year V. Aide-de-camp of the general Augereau the 12 brumaire year VI, it was promoted adjudant-general, chief of brigade and chief of Staff of the 10th military division the 12 fructidor year VII. Member of the Legion of honor in very first times, by decree of January 17th, 1805, it died of disease, in Prussia, at the time of the seat of Torgau, leaving two children of Angélique Magdeleine Verdun, of Thionville, which it had married in 1793. (Sources: historical Service of defense (SHD), Vincennes; " An aide-de-camp of the General Shakes, Jean-François Privat, known as Lachamp, of Rochemaure - 1759-1814" in Re-examined of Vivarais, divides into volumes V, numbers 1,2,3,4 and 5 1897).

Constantin Félicien Cheynet de Beaupré (Rochemaure, October 10th, 1845 - Lyon, November 29th, 1921, buried with the cemetery Saint-Lazare de Valence), former student of the college of Eton (Great Britain) then of the artillery School of Fontainebleau, second lieutenant (on January 25th, 1874), lieutenant (on January 23rd, 1876), captain with the 2nd artillery-pontonniers regiment (on November 3rd, 1880), captain of staff then major, chevalier of the Legion of Honor by decree of Sadi Carnot on July 11th, 1891. August 31st, 1870, ordering a section of recognition of the 12th artillery regiment assembled, it was distinguished with Bazeilles, removing with the head of its men one fears enemy and receiving the saber, as weapon of catch, of a Bavarian officer who was cut off there. After the battle of Sedan, to which it took share, it was made prisoner on September 3rd, 1870 with the whole of the army imperial and led to Stettin (Poméranie Western). Released after the Treated of Frankfurt, signed in May 1871 between Adolphe Thiers, president of the Council, and Bismarck, it integrated the army of Versailles on June 20th, 1871, a few weeks after the fall of the Commune of Paris. Captain with the staff of the 34e regiment of artillery on July 8th, 1886, major to the 6th artillery regiment assembled on March 9th, 1897, assistant editor of the Munitions factory of Saint-Etienne since April 22nd, 1882, it refused his promotion and the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor at the time of the law against the Congregations and left the army. Commander of Saint-Gregoire the Large one by a brief of 1898, it accepted the hereditary title of Roman count on June 28th, 1904, by a brief of the pope Pie X. He had married on March 19th, 1881 Marie Henriette Louise Vinson, girl of Jean-Baptiste Mirabel known as Louis Vinson, general adviser of Ardeche, and Marie Therese Célie Mirabel-Chambaud. He had of them seven children, four boys and three girls. (Sources: historical Service of defense (SHD), Vincennes; Michel Authier and Alain Galbrun, " State of the French nobility subsistante" , Amiens, 1991; Dominique of the Bar of Raillicourt, " Authentic titles of the nobility of France" , Paris, Perrin, 2004, p. 374; particular documents).

Jean Henri Small terrace of Ferns (Beaucaire, February 20th, 1881 - Mâcon, May 5th, 1931, buried in the church NR. D. of the Angels of Rochemaure, vault Holy-Catherine), administrator of the colonies, lieutenant-governor of High-Senegal-Niger (1920-1922) then governor by interim of the French Sudan March 1920 then from August 21st, 1921 to February 26th, 1924, general governor of the French Sudan February 26th, 1924 at May 5th, 1931, Officer of the Legion of Honor, knight about black Star, officer of Academy. Married on May 19th, 1927 with Andree Joséphine Amélie Marie Antoine (from where two boys), girl of Marc Silas Antoine, former student of Saint-Cyr military school, brigadier general, commander of the Legion of honor, commander with plate about black Star, large officer of Nicham, decorated with the Belgian Francoise and Military Cross, Joséphine Boyet. An avenue of Abidjan (Ivory Coast) bears the name of Henri Terrasson of Ferns. A monument with its memory remains with Bamako (Mali), just as a college of the city, whose it had traced the plans and where it resided at the time of its death, with the palate of Koulouba, commemorated its memory until 1961: School Small terrace of Ferns by decision n° 1134 of June 10th, 1931, traditional College Small terrace of Ferns in 1946-1947, College Small terrace of Ferns of May 20th, 1950 at 1961. (Sources: Raymond E. Gervais, " Colonial state and demographic knowledge in Western Africa Française" - 1904-1960, Montreal, Center of Study on the Areas under development, Mac-Gill University; Sebastien Philippe, " Centenary of the palate of Koulouba" , Bamako, 2006; particular documents).

See too

Common of Ardeche

External bonds

Book on Rochemaure: " Rochemaure, a village of character - Routes of discovered " ISBN 2-9520197
Site perso presenting the communue: rochemaure.free.fr
Rochemaure on the site of the national geographical Institute
Rochemaure on the site of INSEE
Rochemaure on the site of Quid
Localization of Rochemaure on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Rochemaure on Mapquest

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