Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur

Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur is a common French located in the department of the Hautes-Alpes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called the Saint-Hosiers .

This village (coordinated: ) is located at the center of the valley of the Champsaur. It is the chief town of the homonymous canton in the Hautes-Alpes.

Geography

Located at the outlet of the valley of High Drac on the great lane Gap-Grenoble, in Hautes-Alpes, integral part of the Dauphine and being next to the National park of the Jewel cases, Saint-Bonnet is located at 15 km of Gap after the Col Bayard. He overhangs the valley of Drac and is located on the Route Napoleon at approximately 100 km of Grenoble (coordinated: ).

The Borough is located at 1025 meters of altitude.

The common form a triangle whose base is delimited by the Drac and points it by the peak of Queyrel.

The landscape is mainly composed of Bocage of mountain which makes the originality and the environmental richness of this territory. While climbing towards the peak Queyrel, the Prairies of bottom of valley make little by little place with the Pâturages in altitude.

Climate

Located in theDauphine one, Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur offer mixed one of Mediterranean and alpine climate. Snows and sun.

History

The abbey of Saint-Victor of Marseilles, heiress in many cases of that of Novalaise, which had évangélisé the high valley of Drac, based, in XIIe century, on the road which, of Gap, led with Mure, a priory dedicated to Saint-Bonnet which is at the base of the current borough. This religious house took a certain importance during the Middle Ages, but its buildings were ruined during the wars of religion. The Dolphin had Saint-Bonnet since Xe or XIe century; it placed a lord of the manor there then, in 1611, a vibailli whose ressortissaient the twenties and one parishes of Champsaur. The borough of Saint-Bonnet then became a small town surrounded by walls, defended by a strong tower. All these fortifications disappeared in XVIe century. The family of Good, champsaurine itself, started to buy the rights of the Dolphin on Saint-Bonnet to the beginning of XIVe century and was owner of all the delphinal field in XVIe; in 1611, when the duchy of Lesdiguières was created, Saint-Bonnet became the capital about it.

It is in its walls that was born, on April 2nd, 1543 (16th century), François de Bonne (1543 - 1626), first duke of Lesdiguières, Marshal of France in 1609, Connétable in 1622 and Pair of France, the largest citizen of Hautes-Alpes. Saint-bonnet did not forget it and was due to the honor to take again its armes.
Il took part in the wars of religion in the sides of Henri IV.

In the years 1700, the ramparts were destroyed to make it possible the borough to grow. At that time, the borough of Saint-Bonnet counts more than one hundred of families.

The village bore the Free name of Bonnet during the Revolution.

Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur guard of many traces its past: “andrones” (narrow lanes), “tounes” (houses on vaults), old doors in drowning massive, the market, etc

As in all the moyenâgeux villages, the houses are tight the ones with the others, and form a round around the priory, of the church and the cemetery, leaving only little place to the lanes and the places.

One still sees, today, in the old Saint-Bonnet of the stones posed along the frontages, the “buttarodes”, the hillocks wheels which prevented the hubs of the wheels of carts from damaging the frontages of the houses. On certain frontages it is still possible to observe ring them, that one used to attach the horses. The majority of the streets and places of the village have a history, and very often their names still today symbolize this past: street of the Marshals (- ferrands), place Grenette (place with the grains), place of Chévreril (place of the market to the goats), etc

Elian-J. Finbert during the years when he was shepherd transhumant lived with Saint-Bonnet.

Emblems

Streamer

The streamer of Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur is made of five vertical bands alternatively blue and white. The two blue bands at each end of the flag are bordered one on the left and with the other on the right of a thin white edge. The colors would come from the chief of the communal armorial bearings.

Armorial bearings

The armorial bearings are described: Mouths with the gold lion, the bent chief of azure charged with three money pinks . One can read this currency, which means Nothing if it is not the force . The armorial bearings are those of François de Bonne, duke of Lesdiguières. In 1447, on its arrival in Grenoble, the notable ones offered a three pink bunch to him, each one of them representing one of the three Saints of the church of the city. When Champsaur became the duchy of Lesdiguières, it will honor the Dauphine one, of which the province of Champsaur formed part, by including on its blazon the three pinks. The lion which will be its emblem represents the force. They will be adopted by the commune on April 29th, 1968.

Administration

Demography

Communes bordering

Tourism

Cultural: the visit of the city makes it possible to discover its historical aspects via several panels of information.
Sports and leisures: the proximity of the mountains allows the practice of many sports of summer (excursion, climbing, parapente) or of winter (ski, rackets). The torrents, mainly Drac, allow also the sports of water (rafting, kayak).
Natural: discovered fauna and flora of the national park of the Jewel cases.

Outdistance ski stations

Places and monuments

Saint-bonnet, capital historical of the valley of Champsaur, is one of the rare medieval boroughs of the French Alps. Located on the Napoleon Road, in the Dauphine one and being next to the National park of the Jewel cases, Saint-Bonnet testifies to a prestigious past and preserves since centuries its cultural heritage with enthusiasm. This attachment with its inheritance was worth besides to him the honors of the Alps Magazine which counts Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur as being one of the most beautiful villages of the Alps.

To see:

has Saint-Bonnet even :

Grenette place:

the market, constuite in 1843 on the site of the old temple (destroyed in 1685);
the house of Pasteur become trade union of initialtive;
a house with turn of angle (containing a spiral staircase) end of the XVI° century;
a fountain, old " pump with brandoir" , probably dating from the XVI° century

place of Chèvreril:

old the " barquier" (feeding trough) of the XVIII° century, become fountain;
the bust of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières

place with the grasses (old market with the plants and dairy products):

a house on vaults (the tounes )

in the streets of the old city:

of the houses of the XVI° and XVII° centuries

In the immediate surroundings :

the site of Our-Lady-of-Beauvoir and the mountain of Mouttet
the war memorial of Resistance and its point of view on Champsaur
the hamlet of Molines and the small valley of Roy
the vault of Pétêtes, naive building built with the XVIII° century by a local mason
the cascade Holy-Catherine and the panorama of the Collar of the Walnut tree
five " maisons" écomusée of Champsaur
Drac, place of exercise and competition of canoe-kayak (since the bridge of Saint-Bonnet until that of Guinguette)

External bonds

Country of Saint-Bonnet
Town hall of Saint-Bonnet
Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur on the site of INSEE
Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Bonnet-in-Champsaur on Mapquest

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