Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat

See also: Saint-Léonard

Saint-Léonard-with-Noblat ( Feels Liunard in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.

Its inhabitants is called Miaulétous and Miaulétounes. This name comes from the " miaulement" Jackdaw of the turns, these small crows which live in colony in the Clocher of the Collégiale Saint-Léonard, registered with the Ways of Saint-Jacob de Compostelle, on the list of the World heritage of UNESCO.

Blazon

Of azure to irons of prisoner of money posed in fasce accompanied by three flowers of lily of gold.

Irons of prisoner are an allusion to Saint-Léonard who is the owner of the prisoners. The flowers of lily have two origins according to the sources:

+ the Léonard hermit would come from the royal family.

+ a queen having difficulties of having children would have come to request Saint Léonard. Its exaucé wish, it would have granted the three flowers of lily to the city.

Geography

Eleventh city of High-Vienna, in term of population, it extends on Northern bank from the Vienna to 20 km in the East from Limoges. It owes its name with the hermit Léonard, owner of the prisoners and the expectant mothers. It was founded with the Moyen-âge around its tomb.

History

Well before the Roman conquest, an important route uniting Bourges with Bordeaux crossed Vienna close to the village of Noblat (which would come from nobiliacum, “place of noble”). A Château of the bishop S of Limoges controlled this Route, which at the 12th century, became a big step of the “Voie limousine” of the road towards Compostelle.

Léonard according to the tradition and the imaginary account of his life writes at the 11th century, would have been born in a family from officers from the court from the king Clovis, at the end of the 5th century. He would have had like godfather, this king of the Francs and for the bishop of Rheims, Saint Remi. Very early, it obtained the privilege to visit the prisoners and to make them release. Its fame then grows, one offered high loads to him which he refused, preferring to leave the court to become disciple of the Christ. There went to Micy in the Orléanais and remained some time with his brother Liphar and holy Maximin. Then, carrying on its way towards the south, it stopped to install its hermitage, not far from Limoges and of the tomb of Martial saint, in the Forêt of Pauvain, in edge of Vienna. During a stay of the king of Aquitanian come to drive out in this place, the queen, arrival at the end of her pregnancy, could not put at the world his/her child. Saint Léonard interceded in his favor near God and obtained the delivery of the mother and the safe life of the child. The king, by recognition, offered many present to him that he refused. He accepted only the territory of the forest that its ass could delimit in 24 hours. He built an oratorical there in the honor of the Virgin Mary and Remi saint. Little by little from many people came to see it and of the prisoners, delivered by his intercession, asked him asylum. Saint Léonard would have died one November 6th and buried in the Chapelle which it had founded. He is called upon for the delivery of the prisoners and against the sterility of the women.

The worship of Saint Léonard is spread quickly in all Christendom: its tomb becomes a place of Pèlerinage or affluent the faithful ones. Many famous characters requested on the tomb of the hermit:

  • Bohémond, prince of Antioche (in 1106)
  • Richard Lion-hearted (towards 1197)
  • Charles VII and the dolphin, the future Louis XII (in 1438)
  • Éléonore of Austria, wife of François I {{er}} (in 1541)
  • the prince of Condé (in 1620)
  • Anne of Austria thanked it for the birth for Louis XIV
  • the Tsarina Alexandra, wife of Nicolas II, made delegate somebody to request on the tomb of Léonard saint, for the birth of the tsarévitch Nicolas.

See also: Léonard de Noblac

Starting from XIe century, the pilgrimage develops; thus in 1105, to take care on the Relics and to accommodate the pilgrims, the clerks organize themselves to form a college. As of the 12th century, the city is surrounded by ditches and of imposing rampart S. Two distinct districts are formed: the religious and administrative district around the Collegial , with the Hospital and the house of city; the district of the merchants around the markets. In 1183, armed bands, the Paillers, devastate it. A few years later, it is occupied by the Brabançons. Jean without Ground, king d' Angleterre, penetrates there with the head of its army in 1214. During the 13th century, the Kings de France will give privileges to the inhabitants of the city, thus they elect, every year, eight consuls. In 1576, the Calviniste S, which wanted to profane the relics of Léonard saint, are driven out by the inhabitants of the city. After the Reform, many convents settled: récollets in 1594, girls of Notre-Dame in 1652. Three brotherhoods the penitent ones based themselves: penitent White, the Penitent Sheet-Dead ones and the Penitent Blue ones. The Révolution tried to replace the name of the city by that of Late-Vienna, but very quickly reappears the name of Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat. Today, the city is re-elected for its factories of Porcelaine. She is recognized as being the cradle of the race Bovin E limousine.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Porcelain

At the beginning of the 19th century, the industry of the Porcelaine is established in Saint-Léonard. One finds still nowadays, in Saint-Léonard of the porcelain factories.

Marsipan cakes

Another speciality of the city, the marsipan cake of Saint-Léonard is a kind of Macaron which is a subtle mixture of crushed almond, of fine flour and sugar, egg white.

Places and monuments

The collegial one

The Collégiale Saint-Léonard which dates from 11th and 12th century is dedicated to saint Léonard, it is a chief of Romance work of art limousin.
It belongs to the World heritage of humanity under the Roads of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle.
  • the bell-tower : The bell-tower is very an good example of Clocher says “the Limousin”. It rests on a porch open of two with dimensions and decorated capitals.
It is made of 4 square stages, surmounted of 2 octagonal stages.
  • Tomb of Saint Léonard : located inside the church, in the southern brace, it is sumonté of its chain of prisoner. The tradition wants that the women wishing to marry and procreate come to touch the bolt.

Other remarkable monuments

  • old the Hôpital of the pilgrims has doors of the 13th century, 14th century and 17th century.
  • the Convent of the girls of Notre Dame: Old convent of the 18th century, it was reconverted in social center. The museum Gay-Lussac is there too.
  • the round turn and the square tower on the place of the Republic.
  • the house of the Consul S
  • the former priory of the Artige on the territory of common preserved its church and part of the cloister. It was the seat of a small order eremitic created by two brothers Marc and Sebastien, originating in Venice who had installed their hermitage with Old woman-Artige. This small order had an about sixty dependences in all Limousin.

Museums

  • Museum Gay-Lussac
The Museum Gay-Lussac has a site lodged with the Vice-chancellorship of the Academy of Limoges * HistoRail HistoRail , Musée of the railroad was inaugurated on July 2nd 1988 in the presence of Claude Bolling, celebrates Pianiste Jazz and author of many musics of Film, the honorary president, and very many personalities in particular of the SNCF. The presence of Claude Bolling but also of Jean Peron-Garvanoff another pianist of jazz set on " Boogie-woogie " is due to the fact that HistoRail wanted to associate the jazz and the Railroad with through in particular of this Musique very swingant which is this famous " boogie-woogie" invented by the black musicians at the time of the very Great Crisis of years 1930 with the E. - U.. The result of this association was the creation of a disc " Really the boogie" with the piano Jean Péron-Garvanoff and two musicians of Claude Bolling. These two pianists are large amateurs of trains, realities and miniature; Claude Bolling having two splendid networks and a very beautiful collection.

Now let us evoke the collections Ferroviaire S which extend on nearly 1000 m ² including 550 m ² in two rooms arranged in an old manufacture of shoes created with the arrival of the railroad in Saintt-Léonard in 1881. All is to reconstitute there the universes of the railroad. Through a ludic and teaching course, the visitor-traveller discovers the objects put in scene to explain to him the life on train his that it emprunute symbolically as of his entry in HistoRail. The step is progressive. First of all the traveller discovers the world of the Gare, then that of traction (simulators of control and pantograph focntionnel with real overhead line); He passes then to the knowledge of indication, of the regulation. In the passing, two miniature networks will explain the role of the stations, interfaces between the world of the railroad and the social and economic world to him that the railroad will feed and interfere. Under this room, symbolizing the course in the train, it is the true history of the railroad which will appear to him with the " Traversothèque" , the second of importance presented to the public after that with the Quoted of the Train in Mulhouse. It should be specified that this collection " Traversothèque" was especially prepared and given by Workshop the SNCF specialized in the way installed to Bretenoux in the Lot. In this respect, it is advisable to announce the considerable importance of the assistance of the SNCF to HistoRail, since its creation, support which does not weaken. It is also in this room which laid out a wide-area network of 14m on 5m on a 1/43,5e scale which in particular makes it possible to see well the operation of a pantograph in situation of movement.

In outsides, a way with the normal spacing was posed in the rules of Article It supports two driving machines: a line inspection car and a very strange and rare locomotor. The first built by Gaston Moyse between 1922 & 1929, said the " animal with cornes". Along a high quay various materials are laid out of indication and equipment of the way. A crane with water and a functional clock of quay supplement the collection. Various large materials await their turn to be presented to the public. A network of Garden which runs in a rubble with small a Rivière and its Lac, on a 22,5e scale, brings its ludic and pastoral note.

Exposures Thématique S supplement the knowledge brought to the traveller. Currently an excellent exposure on the topic of the electrification of the trains is proposed, since the construction of stoppings by the SNCF until convey energy for the Locomotive.

Other topics are envisaged of which one on the Trans-Siberian one.

The Musée is open all the year for the groups to their request. It is opened to the public in summer period, in August and July. To get information about the exactitude of the schedules and the tariffs, to telephone the 05 55 56 11 12 or to send email to historail@historail.com

The HistoRail site is open since hand 2006.

Lastly, let us not hesitate to say and write that HistoRail was born from the will of voluntary amateurs of the railroad, true Patrimoine of the humanity which would deserve a study of classification by UNESCO. These voluntary knew to create the origins of a true museum devoted to the railroad of yesterday, today and tomorrow. They knew to mobilize the private resources necessary because they did not profit from government aid for the required investments. An Support group and of Sponsorship of companies, for much supplier of the SNCF, brought more than their mite: a genuine basket. Let us quote them: The SNCF well-sure, LEGRAND, CGE-DISTRIBUTION, PINAULT, GAUTHIER PAINTINGS, SOMACO - gear lifting, OXYGENATES LIQUID, RHÔNE-POULENC, CONCRETE BUILDING SITES CHARENTES the LIMOUSIN, Crédit Mutuel & Crédit Lyonnais, and bein of other craftsmen in particular… All the sharpest thanks go to its generous benefactors. '

HistoRail' is a registered trademark at the INPI

the mill of Got

Personalities related to the commune

  • Gay-Lussac, Louis-Joseph (1778-1850): Chemist and Physicist which did important work on the Gaz from which rise from the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, was born there on December 6th 1778. He also discovered the Bore.
  • Raymond Poulidor, born on April 15th, 1936 with Masbaraud-Mérignat is Miaulétou of adoption: celebrate Cycliste which has several times finished second or third of the turn of France. It gained important races like the Tour of Spain, the free Midi, the Paris-Nice, the Dauphine-Released, the national Critérium… He was champion of France in 1961
  • Serge Gainsbourg (Lucien Ginzburg) took refuge a few months during the year 1944 with the local college and thus escaped the risks related to its Jewish label.
  • Lucien Rougerie Pioneer of aviation. Carpenter of formation, it participat with the construction of airplanes (largely built out of wood at the time of the pioneers), became pilot and developed the flying blind (PSV).
  • Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, born in 1929 in Bordeaux, is a painter living in the commune

Twinning

in Alsace

See too

  • Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

  • Official site of the town hall of Saint-Léonard-to-Noblat
  • Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Léonard-of-Noblat on Mapquest
  • the Bookstore on the Schools

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