Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou

Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire. Geography

History

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Great dates of the local history

(According to the site of the town of Saint Barthelemy of Anjou)

18th century

1709: Extreme cold winter which destroys corn, vines, trees, cattle. People die of the disette.
1720: 650 habitants.
1760: The borough includes/understands the church with the cemetery and 4 houses: that of the priest, that of a angevin always absent, the cabaret and the residence of a young lady of charity. The inhabitants, in majority closiers and plowmen live in the middle of near, moors and wood. A wet cooper, a miller and some perreyeurs. But the small trades will develop before Révolution.
1772: First school in the bourg.
1776: Construction of the castle of Pignerolle for the account of a middle-class rich person angevin, Marcel April of Pignerolles, rider of the Large stable of the King and lord of Pignerolle.
1779: Black year, an epidemic of dysentery kills 40 people on 750.
1787: First election of the members of the municipal assembly. Notable and landowners will meet under the elm of the église.
1789: The inhabitants elect two deputy at the general meeting of the province having to designate the deputies of the National Assembly. Drafting of a register of grievances (taxes, justice, hunting rights, crop protection plundered by the perreyeurs, right of hospitalization in Angers…) Election of a deputy at the anti committee gabelle (tax on salt). St-Barthelemy (of the Moors) becomes " Good Air" . Children of Masters angevins are as a nurse in the small estates. The first mayor of St Barthelemy belongs to the canton of Samson.
1791: The first midwife settles with the borough (for the first doctor, to wait until 1950)
1793:
- Appearance of sworn the populaires.
- Participation in the work of national defense, armament of the citizens, requisition for the army of Loire.
- The Vendean ones pass to the bourg.
- The goods of the Church are sold like national goods (the Barn, Pignonière, the chaplaincy, Claverie, Cressonnière and the presbytery)

19th century

1806: The dwellings multiply, the middle-class has the grounds and the commune is completely stripped. To pay thepastoral in charge one of the prevention of the plundering of the cultures, a tax is raised on all the nonclosed properties. To escape this tax many fields and houses of Masters walls of ardoises.
are girdled 1830: Construction of the cure, the first work of town planning and alignement.
1840: First teacher, Mrs. Renioult.
1842: Displacement of the cemetery, financial problems for its clôture.
1845: Construction of the town hall which is a room leant with the église.
1843: Construction of the railway Angers/Paris.
1850:
- First teacher, Mr. Bechet.
- 1162 habitants.
1874: Repair of I' church such as it is aujourd'hui.
1880: Construction of another town hall with schools of boys and girls attenantes.
1881: Election of Prosper Jamin at the station of Maire.
1882: Construction of the railway line Angers it Flèche.
1891: Installation of a halt to the locality Cross of Cheminée.

20th century

1900: First fire pump (the Co of firemen will be dissolved in 1941).
1904: Election of Rene Bazin with the Council municipal.
1908: The speed of the cars is limited to 12 km/h in the bourg.
1909: Election of Joseph Couderc of St Chamant to the head of the municipalité.
1914: One counts nine cabarets on the commune.
1914- 1918: The Great War makes 55 victimes.
1922: New name " St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre d' Anjou" proposed by the municipal council by decree présidentiel.
1923: Electrification of the commune (municipal buildings only).
1927: Construction of the working city of Lignerie to place the carriers working with the salte quarries of Trélazé.
1928: Permanent excess speeds in the borough, limit carried to 20 km/h.
1930:
- 2000 habitants.
- Resignation of the mayor Joseph Couderc of St Chamant, replaced by Gaston de Beauchamp.
1932: death of the Academician Rene Bazin.
1935: Election of Louis Lipreau as Mayor of St-Barthélemy.
1939:
- W. Raczkiewicz, president of the Republic of Poland, resides at Pignerolle. St-Barthelemy becomes for 2 years the capital of the Poland.
- Formation of the 125 IH to the Castle of Pignerolle.
1940: Departure of the Polish government. The German kriegsmarine settles for 4 years with the château.
1939 - 1945: 8 killed and 44 prisoners on the commune at the time of the guerre.
1944: An American plane is cut down by the German d.c.a opposite the castle of Pignerolle.
1954: 2500 habitants.
1976: 8000 habitants.
1982: Construction of the new town hall, inaugurated in 1984.
1987: 10.000 habitants

Administration

Demography

The inhabitants of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Anjou name the bartholoméens. source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts) .

Places and monuments

Castle of Pignerolle
Theater of the Town hall (THV) (room of 372 places)
Park of Pignerolle
Park of Europe
Riding school
Deposit of the company COTRA

Economy

ThyssenKrupp AG (Elevator S)

See too

Common of Maine-et-Loire

External bonds

the site of the city
Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou on the site of INSEE
Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou on Mapquest

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