Saint-Just (Ille-et-Vilaine)

See also: Saint-Just

Saint-Just is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

History

Saint-Just comes from Just saint, born with Auxerre and martyrized in the Beauvaisis. The area of Just Saint was for a very long time occupied as testifies to it the very important site megalithic which are there with its menhirs and tumulus.

Saint-Just is a dismemberment of the primitive parish of Renac. In 1101, Alarac or Allérac is the parochial center of Saint-Just. He is located close to the village of the Châtaignier . Alarac was, seems it, detached at the 11th century of the parish of Sixt and/or Renac (History of Brittany by A. of Borderie, II, p. 178).

When the church of Alarac falls in ruins, the center of the parish of Saint-Just is transferred to the Old man-Borough, in the vault of a priory of the Abbaye Saint-Saver of Redon, then at the place where the current church between 1848 and 1851 is built. It is at the time of the construction of this church that one starts to evoke the term of " plateau". Indeed, of many workmen in shoe, coming from the neighborhoods, working for its construction gathered to lunch on the heights to note the evolution of work. The workmen ended up speaking about St-just like commune of the plate. The church of the Old man-Borough then takes the name of Saint-Just because of the relics of this saint whom it preserves. The borough of Saint-Just contained the stocks and collar of the lords of Renac. The parish of Saint-Just depended formerly on old évéché on Valves.

The castle of the Old woman-Court would have been one of the residences of the Anne duchess.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Site megalithic: Saint-Just has on his territory one of the fifteen greater centers megalithic of Europe by historical and landscape diversity.
  • Castle of the Valley: Neo-gothic castle of the 19th century built with the site of an old manor, successive property of the families Peschart lords of Durantaye (at the 17th century), Saoullaye (in 1734 and 1789), Poulpiquet of Halgouet (descendant of Philippe Beautiful, wire of the Germanic emperor Maximilien Ier), and maintaining the Saini family. The castle was formerly surrounded by ditches. The castle and its park are private and nonopen to the public.

Personalities related to the commune

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