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Geography

History

The history of the commune is closely dependant with the site of Musse which means " place quite discrete and hidden " , where with the XI° century drew up a strong castle ordering the valley of Iton and which belonged lord Gencelin to the Wood. In addition to Drove, that Ci had four other strongholds: Morsent, Holy Jean, the Bush and Our lady which today constitute the various districts of the commune. There remains any vestige of the castles, neither of the priory, nor of the vaults set up on these territories.

The church which dates from the XIV° century, was a long time a place of pilgrimage which took a great development at the time when Europe and Asia knew the terrible epidemic called " Black Death ". When it appeared in Evreux in 1517, one thought of resorting to Saint Sebastien. Its attributes are the arrows, instruments of its torment. One allotted the capacity to him to stop the epidemics of plague because one regarded this epidemic as stripped by the arrows of irritated God.

The commune knew this pilgrimage until the end of the XIX° century which took place the Whit Monday and Thursday of the Corpus Christi. The pilgrims came from parishes very distant and were preceded by the brothers from Charity with at their head the tintenellier who gave rhythm their steps at the rate/rhythm of his two tintenelles (bells).

The commune of Saint Sebastien de Morsent was born on December 30th, 1844, it is resulting from the meeting of Sebastien Saint of Gencelin Wood in Notre Dame and Saint Jean de Morsent already joined together since 1274.

At that time in addition to agriculture, a briquettery makes live the inhabitants. Each week the five furnaces cook thousands of bricks. Among the oldest houses of the commune one can still discover these brick houses.

Teaching was given to the hamlet of the Bush in one of the properties belonging to the Count de Fayet, the most important landowner at the time and in fact the nuns of Providence with Evreux teach. The commune between full foot in the Republic with the opening of the first elementary school in May 1903.

In 1928, it is the sanatorium of Musse which settles in the commune which counts 240 inhabitants then.

Until in the years 1960, the common one remains a rural district the only capital expenditures are related to the water conveyance, with the tarring of the roads (the program envisaged 2 km of bituminous mix per annum).

The commune knows its stronger expansion in the years 1970 and reached its figure record of more than 5000 inhabitants. Consequently Saint Sebastien seems a périurbaine commune and the whole of the services and associations are born.

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External bonds

Official site of the city of Saint-Sebastien-to-Morsent
Saint-Sebastien-of-Morsent on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Sebastien-of-Morsent on the site of INSEE
Saint-Sebastien-of-Morsent on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Sebastien-of-Morsent on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Sebastien-of-Morsent on Mapquest
Site on the section Handball de Saint Sebastien de Morsent

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