Saint-Paul-the-Coste

Saint-Paul-the-Coste is a common French, located in the department of the Gard and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Name of the inhabitants: Holy Paulains

Geography

Leant with the buttresses of the the Cevennes, plunge in the middle of its history and find its Foire with the Châtaigne, its River and the picturesque village of Mandajors. The commune is in the peripheral zone of the National park of the Cevennes.

History

Rural district, formerly agricultural, Saint-Paul-the-Coste are located at 300 meters of altitude sprinkled by Galeizon and its affluent Salandre. Of 812 inhabitants at the beginning of the XXe century, it counts only 220 of them today. Covered with holm oaks in its calcareous part, with chestnuts and pines in the schist, of splendid farmhouses, farms and hamlets recall the place which it occupied so much in industry (worms with silk, ores) that in agriculture. Commune with last not very common, it was inhabited as of the end of the Neolithic era. Many burials, bones, engravings testify to the presence of the man in the valley. Well later, it will be in the middle of the War of the religions which opposed the XVIIIe Protestants century and to Catholics. The religious war which burst in 1702 with the assassination of the Abbot of Chaïla to the Bridge of Monvert (Lozere) plunged the commune during a painful time of conflict. Indeed, she was regarded as a hearth of rebellion but also a commune from where one of the first chiefs camisard, called Gédéon Laporte was native and which had taken part in the assassination of the Abbot of Chaïla.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1977-2001 || Daniel Layris ||align=" center" | S.E. |- | align=right| March 2001 || Joseph Rochelemagne ||align=" center" | label

Demography

Places and monuments

the commune of Saint-Paul-the-Coste is classified “Reserve of the Biosphère” by UNESCO.

the Church (12th), the Temple (18th) and Chapelle of the Château of Mandajors (12th) are in the middle of the Guerre of Camisards which ignited the country in 1702.

Old moulinery, spinning mill of silk Chambon then Boudon with the Trip hammer. It was built on the site of an old trip hammer in 1836. it remains only the aqueduct which took along water and of the ruins of the building.

In the collar of Uglas, is at the edge of the road the " Fountain of Dragons" who was arranged in XIIIe century on order of the intendant of Languedoc so that the Dragons (soldiers of the King) can drink like watering their horses.

Mill troglodyte of Mayelle built around the beginning of the XIXe century. It was actuated by the animal haulage and made it possible to treat olives and the grain.

Pont of the dry stone brotherhood built at the exit of the church goes up at the time of the establishment of a way by the Romans.

very old engraved Signs, engravings, dolmens.

Personalities related to the commune

Gédéon Laporte , chief Camisard, born in 1660 in Saint-Paul-the-Coste, resided at Branoux-the-Gash.

See too

Common of Gard

External bonds

Discovered commune of Saint-Paul-the-Coste and the Cevennes
Discover the Fair in the Sweet chestnut-Saint-Paul-the-Coste
Saint-Paul-the-Coste on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Paul-the-Coste on the site of INSEE
Saint-Paul-the-Coste on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Paul-the-Coste on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Saint-Paul-the-Coste on Mapquest

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