Rocroi

Geography

Rocroi is located near the border with the Belgium, with 28 kilometers in the North-West of the chief town of the department, Charleville-Mézières and to 60 km in the south of Charleroi. It has a Superficie of 5.041 hectares and culminates with its maximum with 391 meters.
The common S bordering are:

Taillette (in the east)
Ford-in Hossus (in north)
Brûly (Belgium, in north)
Fumay (in the east)
Revin (in the east)
Mazures (in south-east)
Borough-Faithful (in the south)
It Châtelet-on-Sormonne (southern point)
Sévigny-the-Forest (in the south)

Geology

Rocroi is located on a Plateau, called, in way éponyme, " Solid mass of Rocroi". It is acted in fact of a paleozoic structure, with dominant cambrienne, made up of hard stones. This structure, broad of a score of kilometer in direction NS and long of about fifty kilometers in direction EO, is recut by the border belge.

History

November 20th 1588, the city fell to the hands from the Protestants

Heraldic

Etymology

The name of Rocroi means the crossing (the crossroads) of Raoul, a former lord of the place at the 13th century. At the 17th century, when Louis XIII bought the near total of the seigniory of Rocroi in 1614, one invented an etymology in conformity with the new statute of the city, to make the Rock of Roy of it, Rock-Roy , so that under the French revolution, it was famous Rock-Free .

Rocroi until the XVIIe century

Rocroi was strengthened by François Ier and was increased by Henri II.

November 20th 1588, the city fell to the hands from the Protestants.

It is during the head office of Rocroi by the Spaniards ordered by the Count de Fuentès that the famous battle of Rocroi took place on May 19th Bataille of Rocroi}} Ten years later, the same Cop, who ordered the Spaniards then, took this city for them in 1653, but it was returned to France in 1659, by [[peace of the Pyrenees]]. ===Rocroi of the XVIII with our jours=== {{to supplement}} ==Administration== {{ÉluDébut |Titer= Lists successive mayors}} {{Elected |Début=1848 |Fin=1852|Identité= [[Gabriel Marie Auguste Gentil]] |Parti= |Qualité=}} {{Elected |Début= |Fin=|Identité= [[Theophilus Armand Neveux]] |Parti= |Qualité=}} {{Elected |Début= 1953 |Fin=1976 |Identité= [[Andree Viénot]] |Parti= |Qualité=}} {{Elected |Début= March 2001 |Fin= |Identité= Mr. Michel Sobanska |Parti= |Qualité=}} {{ÉluDonnées}} {{ÉluFin}} ==Démographie== {{Demography| 1962= 2.870| 1968= 2.997| 1975= 2.911| 1982= 2.789| 1990= 2.555| 1999= 2.420| sansdoublescomptes= 1962}} ==Économie== {{to supplement}} ===Agriculture=== ; Agricultural history Poor ground countries, the type of agriculture practiced until first half of the 20th century were the '' sart ''. Prototype studied in rural geography, it acts of a agro-sylvo-pastoral rotation of approximately 20 years, one practiced as follows:
- Barking of the wood become ripe and sale of the bark to the tanneries
- Close-cropped Cut and sale of the wood of coppice,
- One burns the remainders of vegetation with " the étouffé" , towards the end of spring. This practice is at the origin of the famous " ''''' Fogs puants ''''' " or " ''''' Fogs of Rocroi ''''' ".
- Sowing of [[rye]] in the days which follow, with respect of the stocks which must reject and form [[cépée]] s.
- Harvest of rye the year suivante.
- One lets the brooms proliferate 4-5 years (leguminous plants, bringing nitrogen). The coppices are put in défens, to prevent that the animals do not destroy the rejections of souche.
- The brooms are cut and gives fodder, litière.
- After a certain time, the grazing ground is authorized in the taillis.
- At the end of 20 years, the coppice is ready for a news coupeGALOCHET Marc (to dir), '' the forest, resource and inheritance '', Paris, Ellipses, coll Crossroads, 2006,272 p.. ==Sport== * Watery center ==Culture== ==Lieux and monuments== * Museum of the battle of Rocroi * Fortifications ==Personnalities related to the commune== * [[Auguste Warnier]] (1810-1875), appointed of Algiers * [[Colonel Canard]] (1824-1894), governor of Senegal * [[Eugene Jacquemart]] (1836-1894) French politician and officer of the state education * [[Arthur Chuquet]] (1853-1925), French historian to ==Voir aussi== * [[Rocroi (cheese)|Cheese of Rocroi]] * [[Common of the Ardennes]] ==Liens externes== * [http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087&CommuneId=93941 Rocroi on the site of the national geographical Institute] * [Rocroi http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=08367&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE on the site of INSEE] * [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=11817&req=Rocroi Rocroi on the site of Quid] * [http://www.lion1906.com/Pages/ResultatLocalisation.php?InseeVille=080367 Localization of Rocroi on a chart of France and communes bordering] * [http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=49.9261111111111&longitude=4.52222222222222&zoom=8 Plan of Rocroi on Mapquest] * [http://www.otrocroi.com/ Tourist office of Rocroi] == Notes and references == {{Gate the Ardennes}} [[Category: Commune of the Ardennes|Rocroi]] [[Category: Building site of Vauban]] [[bg: Рокроа]] [[ceb: Rocroi]] [[in: Rocroi]] [[eo: Rocroi]] [[be: Rocroi]] [[it: Rocroi]] [[nl: Rocroi (plaats)]] [[pl: Rocroi]] [[Ru: Рокруа]] [[vo: Rocroi

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