Saint-Coming

Saint-Coming is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Saint-Coming is a borough located at the confluence of the Lys and brook of Guarbecque. Saint-coming is in the Flemish Artois. The name of the borough is francized since the top Moyen-âge.

Its inhabitants is Saint-Venantais.

History

Formerly strengthened city, it also acts of a seigniory set up in county in 1655. The village was definitively annexed in France with the Traité of Utrecht (1713). The village named originally Papinghem or Pappingeham : of papo and - inghem , the name would mean “field of papo”.

In 1094 it takes that of “Sanctus Venantius”, which will give the current name. This name comes from that of a Saint hermit which would have been established there, and from which fall it finds in the vicinity: Venantius, or Coming, at the 8th century.

Economy

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999

the significant drops of the population is due in major part to the new mental health policy.

Evolution of the pattern of the settlement 1921 - 1990

Socioprofessional categories

1. GCV 1: 7,60% farmers in 1921, 1,30% in 1990

2. GCV 2: 6,40% craftsmen, trading and heads of undertaking in 1921, 3,40% in 199 0
3. GCV 3: 0,60% of frameworks and higher intellectual professions in 1921, 2,30% in 1990
4. GCV 4: 3,60% of intermediate occupations in 1921, 2,30% in 1990
5. GCV 5 and 6: 22,30% of employees and workmen in 1921, 28,00% in 1990
6. GCV 7 and 8: 59,50% of reprocessed and others without community activity in 1921, 56,10% in 1990

Administration

Saint-coming Chef-lieu canton during the Révolution was (of 1790 to the 8 Pluviôse An IX (January 28th 1801)).

Mayors

Teaching

Places and monuments

The monument with the morts
The old people's home départemental
Old the gare
The door of Aire
The center hospitalier
The Lily
The marina

Structure crowned

The church of Saint-Coming was rebuilt after 1918. Its Bell date of 1670.

A British cemetery is also located at Saint-Coming.

Civil architecture

The town hall of Saint-Coming, going back to 1766, is classified historic building. It has a very pretty frontage.

It should be also noted that the town of Saint-Coming account several houses and farms 18th century.

Moreover, it is necessary to note the futurist architecture of the new closed educational establishment, prison for young people, at the end of a splendid alley (skirting a school and a hospital) named " Michel Foucault" , in homage to the philosopher who centered his work on the denunciation of the strategies of enfermement and of punishment.

Historic buildings

Town hall: frontages and roof: inscription by decree of the January 11th 1951

Personalities related to the commune

• Pierre Galand (1510 - 1559), scholar of the Rebirth

• the Brice, a family of painters at the court of Brussels to the XVIII {{E}} and 19th centuries. Jean-François Brice was born in 1687 with Saint-Coming, it is the father of the painter Pierre-François Brice (1714 - 1794), born with Saint-Coming, painter with Brussels at the Court of Charles of Lorraine and which was father of the painter and engraver Antoine Brice (1752 - 1817), father himself of the neo-classic great painter Ignace Brice (1795 - 1866), professor with the Royal Academy of Brussels, called the David of Brussels.
• Pierre Englebert Desruelles (1723 - 1792), hereditary governor of Gorgue and the country of Lalleu
• Queen Judith Desruelles (1736 - 1818), last abbess of the Abbey of Bowsprit to Gorgue
• Louis Denissel (1808 - 1863), representing at the Constituent and Legislative assemblies
• Jean-Baptiste Franchot (1809 - 1881), civil Engineer and inventor of the Lamp to regulator
• Auguste Dubois (1871 - 1943), violonist, type-setter and chief of the Harmony of the Mines of Bruay

See too

• Common of the Pas-de-Calais