Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis

Geography

Locate in Cambrésis at 13 kilometers at the East of Cambrai, at 6 kilometers in the West of Solesmes, crossed by the Secondary road 942 (of Cambric with Quesnoy) and Secondary road 45 (of Haspres to Serain). Altitude is of 71 meters on the level of Erclin, 85 meters at the entries of the commune The village is with less than one fifteen minutes of Cambric and Caudry.

Administration

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Demography

HISTORY: OUR IGNORED VILLAGES: SAINT-VAAST-EN-CAMBRÉSIS

(1st part) By Thierry LEROY

If you could not attend the conference which proceeded on Saturday, December 5, 1992, it is with pleasure that I propose this quarter to you to discover my village in company of association " Cambrésis Ground of History ". Having called upon the various deposits of files of our area, I endeavoured to collect the main part of the documents and texts referring to the village of Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis since the origins until our days. In a preoccupation with a precision, the usual heading of this review will be the object of two publications. Here the first part of our research on the very interesting history of the village of Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis origins at 1800.

TOPONYMY The surface of the soil is of 437 hectares and its altitude is of 71 meters on the level of Erclin, 85 meters at the entries of the commune. If the ground is naturally argillaceous and calcareous, one can discover by place of the grounds with flint and the grounds known as levers.

Among the rivers of the commune, Erclin but also the riot of the Priests and the riot of Malis. The localities located on the cadrastal map of 1834 (deposited in town hall) are many and evocative. Let us quote for example the Hermitage (district of the old maladrery?), Tournières, the Manner, Boilers (indicating the nature of the ground), the perforated Terminal, the Keep (which points out the existence of an old tower strengthened on the territory), Trees of the Woman and Saint-Python (who were places of hanging at the time medieval), lonval or Hardival (valley of the snap rings and valley of the fatty grounds),…

The streets of the commune were the object of a change of denomination per deliberation of September 6th, 1977 because of “the absence of reality being attached today to the names of those”. The medieval streets of Beauvois, Wéau, Beaurevoir or Foucquières for a long time disappeared the current street Jean Jaurès was formerly called street of Gave before becoming at the 19th century Main street. The streets of the Marsh, the Shovel, Jacques Héry (known as lane of the Thickets) disappeared in 1977.

an old occupation of the territory.

As of the XIX' century, Bruyelle in its Geological Notes on the Cambric District pointed out that the origin of the locality " the stone " field; probably came from an alignment of megaliths between Saint-Vaast and Saint-Aubert. In the same way the seniority of the ways crossing the commune is the unquestionable proof of an early development of the site. The abbot Touched, author of a History of Saint-Hilaire specified that the way of Cauchirois connecting Quiévy to Saint-Vaast by Saint-Hilaire was a Gallic way. This forsaken way was parallel to the " way of the Pilgrims " who connected Saint-Quentin to Valencians. The nearest realization of air photographs with Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis will undoubtedly make it possible to specify these dires on the old occupation of the ground at this remote time.

the memory of Saint-Vaast .

Saint-Vaast who gave his name to the commune was a missionary originating in Périgord which would have left its area for évangéliser at the 5th century the septentrional tribes. Become very influential, Clovis would have made its catechist of it. Sent to Arras, Vaast would have found in the place of worship of the city a bear which he did not hesitate to tame: this explains why the inhabitants of Saint-Vaast preserved the nickname d" bear ".

As well as the villages close to Saint-Aubert and Saint-Hilaire, one can estimate that it is starting from the VIII eme century that the territory took the name of the evangelist. It is only since the communal deliberation of January 17th, 1962 that one speaks about Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis to distinguish the village from the canton of Solesmes to that of Saint-Vaast-laVallée (canton of Bavay).

the medieval time.

The text writes oldest referring to Saint-Vaast goes back to 1095. It is of the handing-over of various goods and the furnace bridge of " Sanctus Vedastus" by the Bishop of Left-handed Cambric to the monks of the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert.

The name of " Sanctus Vedastus in calciata " '(Saint-Vaast in roadway) reappears finally at the time of the pontificate from Innocent II in connection with other goods belonging to the abbey of Saint Aubert de Cambrai in 1177.

Our research and testimonys finally make it possible to confirm the dires according to which a maladrery or hospital Saint Druon would have been built on the territory of Saint-Vaast, with the variation of the agglomeration about 1231 in order to accommodate the individuals of the " badly holy miser " ', i.e. the leprous ones. Remain to hope that the future examinations of the hospital Cambric files and the air photographs will come to confirm these analyzes.

The readers will refer to the preceding number of " Cambrésis Ground of History " to make knowledge with the first laic lords of the place: family LOUVET of Saint-Vaast who carried 'of azure to the éployée bicephalous gold eagle.

At all events, the members of this famous feudal family having left the village, it is the family of WALNUT TREES (patrician family of Cambric) which exerted as of the century her authority on the territory. Followed one another Robert of WALNUT TREES (listed in 1363, brother-in-law of the lord of Avesnes-les-Aubert), another Robert of WALNUT TREES (buried into 1425 within the vault of the Fieffés Francs built by its care within the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert) then Jean of WALNUT TREES who, last laic lord of the village, sold in 1449 his rights to the abbey of Saint--Aubert de Cambrai.

At the origins of the ecclesiastical seigniory of Saint-Aubert and layman of Gavène.

The jurisdiction of the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert on part of the village as from the 15th century is the result of a slow process.

The parish of Saint-Vaast was created in 1221, following the dismemberment of the cure of Saint-Aubert. The villagers having expressly asked for separation, they had to undertake the housing of the priest and the payment of part of its adequate portion.

This " desire separatist " did not prevent the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert from increasing through the centuries its seizure on the village.

When " Jean of the GAUGUERS (of WALNUT TREES) had nothing any more but three corn " ears; , having given in 1449 to the abbey of concerning Saint-Aubert two amazés strongholds lord of Walincourt, the abbey claimed to base its jurisdiction on all the village. However, it was several times thwarted in its ambitions by other religious establishments (abbey of the Holy Sepulchre de Cambrai, canons of collegial Saint-Gery, abbey of Vicoigne,…) and especially by the " seigniory of the gave " imposed by the dukes of Burgundy.

Since 1347, Louis, count de Flandre, granted the ground damping bought by the chaplain of the church Saint-Gery de Cambrai on the territory of Saint-Vaast.

Its heirs, the dukes of Burgundy, materialized their authority by imposing on the village the famous " right of gavene " (" Gavene of Cambrésis " who was the subject of a work of Denis of Toll at last century).

The presence of the " seigniory of Gave " in Saint-Vaast the installation of an administrative structure devoted to the ducal capacity implied (then later imperial), structure who was not long in clashing with that installation by the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert.

Not only the lieutenants and sergeants of gavene were charged to charge a right on the passage of 7 ways near the village, they also had of the high justice (criminal justice), of the average and the low justice (taken sanctions against the forest offenses and causes minor). The plaids of this civil justice were held every fifteen days with the locality " the Courtyard ', near the strengthened cemetery constituting the enclosure of the church.

In spite of the efforts of the Jean priest of FURNES (1556-1569), interlocutor of the abbey of Saint-Aubert and the threats of the inhabitants who, in 1562, threw in a well the copper plate representing the weapons of the imperial family that had affixed on the church the lieutenants of gavene, the seigniory of Gave persisted until the fastening of Saint-Vaast in France.

wars.

Saint-Vaast knew the sad fate of many villages of Cambrésis for the periods of Burgundian, imperial domination then Spanish.

April 9th, 1471, the village was devastated by the French. In 1480, it was ravaged when Bourguignons and Imperial out of Cambrésis the French pared and it knew into 1521 of new exactions on both sides of the camps.

From 1528 to 1538, the famine came to be added to the war and the chroniclers report that the cannibalism existed for this sad period.

So at the time of the Thirty year old War only the mill of Saint-Vaast left unscathed in the surroundings, the population had to undergo once again the passage of troops directed by the count of BROGLIE in 1712.

end of the Old Mode.

After fastening in France, the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert re-established a rigid mode seigneurial and was made reconfirm its rights on the territory of Saint-Vaast. Having 300 mencaudées of grounds in this village, she successively entrusted to the four powerful farmers of the place the perception of the dîme and warping (to 7%).

In 1722-1723, then in 1755, it had to face the vindication of the inhabitants who refused to discharge rights to him if this one did not accept the trickle charge of the church and the presbytery required by the village community.

In 1742-1743, the abbey entered in lawsuit against the abbey of the Holy Sepulchre (lord of Saint-Hilaire) about the right of plantis on the way of Beaufossé. It finally had to be solved in 1747 with the rebuilding of the church which fell in ruins, the church perhaps oldest and most badly built of all the province of Cambrésis '. The mill of Saint-Vaast set up in 1637 on the territory of Saint-Hilaire was the prey of a fire in 1773. The day before the Revolution, the mill is leased with the PAMART, principal farm of the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert.

a village rebels during the Revolution.

As occurs the Revolution, the village of Saint-Vaast who counts 675 inhabitants is agitated by many tensions. Roch MILLET and Charles MAIRESSE (the first elected mayor of the commune) were the delegates charged to make known with the bailliage Cambric the wishes of reform preached by the village community.

At the time of the administrative reorganization of the nation in departments; Saint - Vaast was attached to the District of Quesnoy and the canton of Solesmes. It is interesting to notice that during the revolutionary dechristianization the name of the places did not differ: one spoke about Saint-Vaast-lez-Solesmes.

The internal conflicts at the village multiplied on various occasions: in 1791, the mayor of requiring the national guards and the troops of line in order to proceed to the election of a new teacher and in October 1791, at the time of the sale of the National Goods to private individuals (goods belonging formerly to the abbey of Cambric Saint-Aubert a coalition of inhabitants was formed cause a drop in the price of the goods what leads to a levelling division of the ground (183 household heads thus tried to monopolize the ground that the powerful farmers of the village in spite of the continuations of the courts ambitionnaient).

The agents of the worship also caused some concerns with the District of Quesnoy: the old priest CANNONADES refused to lend the oath, the priest KEEP blocked the perception of the goods, constitutional priest FOREST was suspected of having been with the enemy and of 1793 to 1794, Dom Benoît LEMPEREUR prior of Maroilles cheese continued in the commune a clandestine worship.

At the time of the second dechristianization, the agent of the worship encouraged the inhabitants to save the bell of the church and one needed the brutal intervention of twenty brigades and a gendarmerie so that the men of the police chiefs of the District can low throw the cross which overhung the church…

In spite of this resistance, a called Joseph TELLIEZ of Cambric proclaimed purchaser of the church in 1799 and carried out many destruction there. It should be also known that during Terror, in front of the threat which Joseph LEBON made weigh, the farmer Theodore PAMART, his wife and their seven children as two monks hidden in the farm were constrained to leave the territory and than in spite of the interventions of the municipal administration of the canton of Solesmes, the family had to await the end of the Revolution to regain Saint-Vaast and be reinstated in her goods…

My thanks for their collaboration with: Mr TAP (Secretary of the historical Commission of North), - Sirs DHENNIN and GABET of " Cambrésis Ground of History ".

Thierry LEROY

OUR IGNORED VILLAGES: SAINT-VAAST-EN-CAMBRÉSIS

(2nd part) By Thierry LEROY

You could discover in the preceding number the first part of the history of Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis origins at 1800. I endeavoured in this second part to present the aspects and the most interesting facts and to you most outstanding of the history of my village of 1800 to 1914.

I remind to you that it is only since the communal deliberation of January 17th, 1962 that one speaks about " Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis".

Historical of the communal buildings

The current church of Saint-Vaast was built in 1747 at the same place as the preceding one. The series O of the Departmental records of North teaches us that this new church was damaged during the Revolution: work of constructional work is carried out there in 1809, the broken bell is redesigned in 1816 per François PAMAR, Maire and founder, the frame of the roofs is rebuilt in entirety in 1819 and of new stained glasses are installed. In 1904, the bell-tower is repaired and in 1922, the church is restored following the degradations caused at the time of the First World War. In 1923, the bell is remelted.

Vault and Calvaire

Al' is commune is a vault devoted to Our-Lady-of-Good-Help, built in 1822 and in the west a martyrdom set up in 1832.

the Cemeteries

The old cemetery of Saint-Vaast was around the church. Closed walls furnished with raised towers, it was used as fortress to the inhabitants who took refuge there with their families. It was possible to admire in one of its external walls three carved stones of which two represented Scourging and Jesus with the tomb. In 1835, following the cholera epidemic of 1832 which generated many deaths in the commune, the construction of a new cemetery was considered but the population refused. To cure the lack of place, the cemetery was increased L are 50 centiares in the West after demolition of part of the enclosing wall. The second cholera epidemic of 1849 was quite as fatal as the first and the commune then decided to buy grounds of 17 ares located at the West of the agglomeration to the locality Fonds Barals in order to install a new cemetery there. In 1893, part of the walls of the old cemetery is demolished. Let us note that at the beginning of the century, it was possible to find on its site by scraping the ground of the remainders of skeletons. The presbytery of the parish was built in 1899 near the old one which went back to 1826. Let us announce that the priest Constant BRICOUT paid 4500 francs for his construction, i.e. about half of the sum required.

The old cemetery was around the church. Closed walls furnished with raised towers, the site was used as fortress to the inhabitants, who took refuge there in the event of danger. Following the cholera epidemic of 1.832, it was decided to create E 1.850, a new cemetery in the West of the village, along the way of great Cambric communication with Solesmes.

One notices in one of the walls external of the cemetery, three stones carved, of which two represent scourging and Jesus with the tomb

the schools of the commune have a very interesting past.

The consulted files mention the existence of a house of school located street of the Marsh in 1834 (this house was rented with the commune 100 francs per annum by its owner Mr LEGROS). In 1847, the commune buys the house of the BARBET SPANIEL families and BUTCHER located in front of the church to establish there the house of school of boys and girls. Since 1851, little time after law FALLOUX, the directories of Cambrésis mention the presence of the convent of the Sisters Holy-Union in Saint-Vaast " in a building with the walls bleached with lime at the top of a hillock behind the église". Series 1 T 124/12 of the DNA confirms this presence in 1860 and in 1882 a treaty is signed between the municipality and the Congregation of the Holy-Union of Crowned the Hearts of Douai. The private school then will compensate the public school of girls until her construction. The entry was free there with the help of a treatment of 600 francs per annum to each of the three nuns in charge of teaching in this school. There were two ordinary classes with a mixed childish class. Teaching was rigorous there. In 1882, the common one votes the rebuilding of its school of boys which is in a state of insalubrity. In 1886, the commune acquires a house located Main street belonging to Catherine BLAS, widow of Pierre SIGNAL for the sum of 8000 francs. Are established there the school of boys who are 185 on this date, housing of the teacher but also in 1892 the common house (the town hall). In 1903, the sisters leave Saint-Vaast and the school is sold with the biddings for 3000 francs with some GUIDE. In 1912, the girls are accommodated in their new school. In 1957, a childish school including/understanding two classes comes to be added to the two public schools of girls and boys and in 1968 a mixed elementary school this time is built. We will finish this presentation of the communal buildings of Saint-Vaast by a history of the martyrdoms and vaults. The martyrdom located close to the cemetery was built in 1832 to undoubtedly protect the village from the cholera epidemic. It was moved of a few meters at the end of the 19th century. The martyrdom located at the intersection of the Catelot ways and Haussy was undoubtedly built at the end of the XIXeme century. The Notre-Dame vault of the Good Help goes back to 1822 and the vault more commonly called " Grotte" was built about 1955. Economic life with Saint-Vaast at last century The principal activity of Saint-Vaast at last century was the textile. Already before the Revolution, the village " by its industry manufacture honoured with toilets which it had carried to its last degree of perfection". In 1801, between 200 and 300 trades were in activity in the village and rythmaient the daily life. According to the list of the conscripts (men from 20 to 35 years) of the commune established into 1836,122 of the 151 villagers selected were mulquiniers, that is to say approximately 81 percent. The fame of the weavers of the canton of Solesmes was very good and they often had dual employment since they were also " bettrafieux".

Saint-Vaast counted a certain number of mills at last century .

A windmill was on the Cambric way. Its owners were: Jean-Baptiste Gilles DEUDON of Avesnes-les-Aubert (of 1830 to 1836), Paul MALAQUIN of Avesnes-les-Aubert (of 1836 to 1841), Auguste BUCHART-POURE of Avesnes-les-Aubert (of 1841 to 1850), Nicolas FLAMENT-BERTOUX of Saint-Aubert (of 1850 to 1854) and Jean-Baptiste LEFEBVRE who had to demolish it between 1858 and 1861, this one being too close to the road. Another windmill " very of wood and well few fer" was held on the way of Beaufossé. Its owners were: Theodore PAMART, Catherine PAMART (of 1848 to 1856), Pierre WATREMETZ (of 1856 to 1874), Jean-Baptiste TELLIEZ-DEFOSSEZ of Saulzoir (of 1874 to 1882), Cyrille LORRIAUX (of 1882 to 1901). It burned in November 1901. A third windmill was also on the Cambric way. One of its owners. was François-Joseph CRESPIN (of 1866 to 1882). A last windmill and with oil was on the road of Denain (cf our photographs). One of its owners was MANET-DROMART (of 1859 to 1884). It stopped functioning in 1914 and Mr Fénelon BISIAUX (which had taken part in this study and we learned the death at the 95 years age) gave it in 1989 to a.R.A.M. (Regional Association of the Friends of the Mills). There were also in Saint-Vaast many other industries at the end of last century. The directories of Cambrésis and Ravet-Anceau consulted with the Cambric public library as well as the series M 417 and 0 of the Departmental records of North teach us that many other artisanal and industrial activities brought prosperity to the borough of the canton of Solesmes. In 1872, a certain TAQUET-MORET exploited a tannery. In 1880, one named COLMANT exploited a sugar factory. There were also in Saint-Vaast four breweries in activity into 1893 exploited by sieurs CARETTE, COLERY, FAREZ and RICHEZ. Also let us note that in 1893 MANET exploited an oil factory and that DHERBOMEZ had a factory of cossettes (founded in 1859 per Eugene CATTIAUX) as well as a chicorey factory (demolished in 1880).

the craft industry and the trade

active and in various ways in the village were represented. In 1850, there were 19 cabarets (40 in 1888), 8 cambric manufacturers (19 in 1857,4 in 1864,10 in 1876 and 2 in 19123), 8 fabric manufacturers (15 in 1857,8 in 1864,5 in 1876), 2 factors of factory, 4 cartwrights, 2 marshal-shoeing, 2 millers (3 in 1868), 2 grocers (9 in 1866), 1 land-surveyor, 1 horse dealer, 1 tobacco dealer, 1 merchant of linen thread and 1 wet cooper. Also let us note that there were 6 bakers in 1892,4 butchers in 1907,4 chair-bottomers of chairs in 1886,4 shoe-makers in 1907,5 carpenters in 1890,… From 1850 to 1924, there were then two landlords and the trade of wines and spirits was exerted by family HAUTCCEUR of approximately 1830 to 1978. Let us announce finally that a pharmacist and that a midwife was installed in Saint-Vaast in second half of the XIXeme century as well as an candle merchant, a poêlier out of cast iron and a roofer in straw. Let us not forget before finishing this part of speaking about the agricultural activity with Saint-Vaast. There were 12 farmers in the village in 1886 and 1913 (21 in 1939 and 5 today).

political life, social and religious at the 19th century

The first census of 1801 teaches us that Saint-Vaast-iez-Solesmes has a population of 744 inhabitants. In 1850,1734 inhabitants are listed (either an increase in approximately 129 in the 49 years space). There were 1895 inhabitants in 1888 and 1735 in 1911. From 1815 to 1818, Cambrésis is occupied by the Russians of the count VORONSOV. The Registry office of Saint-Vaast reveals us the existence of a barracks of Russian cossacks located Petite Street in 1817 as well as the presence in the village of royal customs. The cholera epidemic from Asia struck France since 1830. It strongly touched the village of Saint-Vaast (85 deaths are listed in the Registry office in 1832). The second epidemic of 1849 was even more fatal since 128 deaths are listed there and of the whole families were decimated. The way of Saint-Vaast to Haussy was traced on September 14th, 1829. It was given to this way a width of 5 meters (15,5 feet). In 1835, the commune assigns a sum of 22000 francs for the construction of the paved roadway of Solesmes to Cambrai. 8000 francs are added in 1837. In 1841, two plots of land of the Welfare office are alienated to allow the construction of this way of great communication. The storm of a rare violence which took place in the night from May 3rd to 4th 1838 caused the flood of 68 houses, the collapse of some of enters but also the destruction of part of the bridge on Erclin. Saint-Vaast was the theater of disorders and disorders

on March 11th, 12th and 13rd 1846 following the purchase of potatoes by the sior Jean-Baptiste BUTCHER then accused of speculation by the population (because these potatoes were intended for Belgium). The inhabitants belonging to the poorest class (approximately 150 people) gathered to be opposed at the beginning cars charged. One needed the presence of the Sub-prefect, of the Prosecutor of the King and important forces of gendarmerie to calm the spirits. Three villagers were stopped. This local crisis, true crisis of subsistence, makes us think of a riot of Old Mode. But one should not forget only the condition of the poor social classes in this medium of XIXè" century was often very difficult and painful. In 1848, one votes 15000 francs to help with the creation of the way of Saint-Vaast to Guisette which will be of a great utility because it ensures of work and the wages the unoccupied workmen. Always in 1848, " MARET, Mayor still attached to the royalty, is deposed unanimously peuple" but refuses to give the seal of the town hall to the National guard. Problems emerge at the time of the municipal election (renewed by twice). Dominique Dubois is elected Maire. 1848-1851: " there is in Saint-Vaast the royalist or white party, the moderate Republican party or rouge". The members of the Municipal council and the Welfare office refuse to meet. Dominique Dubois must resign and is replaced by Auguste LENGRAND, cambric manufacturer. In 1849, construction of the local road n° 45 of Denain with Saint-Vaast. En1870, the Municipal council disputes the layout of a project of railway line of Cambric at the Belgian border " who ignores Saint-Vaast where sugar factory is found, brewery, pharmacy, exploitation of plant oil, manufacture chicorey, developed flour-milling, cambric big business and various fabrics, hardware and many other industries tending to take extension".

September 3rd, 1872, the Protestant minister of Quiévy rented a house for 3 years in the commune of Saint-Vaast to ensure the protesting worship (the Mayor Auguste LENGRAND announcing that there are only four calvinists with Saint-Vaast including two living only temporarily in the village). October 20th, 1873, the Municipal council of Saint-Vaast has met at an extraordinary sitting to claim the high-intervention of Mr. Cambric Sub-prefect for the closing of this illegal establishment of a place of open worship in this commune for fifteen months " waited until it is useless, dangerous because it involves regrettable conflicts and expensive bus Saint-Vaast is not enough rich to treat to the luxury of two religions" (7 V 25/26, DNA).

INSTALLATION in Saint-Vaast

In 1875, construction of a bridge on the ravine of Erclin to the crossing of the street of Undermined. Other bridges are built on the old way of Gave (widened in 1898) and with the Marsh (current place Henri Barbusse). Following the law of June 15th, 1872 is created a railway line active of Cambric with Dour in Belgium which requires several expropriations. Such events reproduce at the time of the installation of a narrow-gauge line of Denain to Catelet in 1889. Cyrille LORRIAUX evokes in his memories the economic interest of this line. August 3rd, 1876, the Council asked for the authorization of cut down the tree of the entirely hollow Woman who is with the intersection of four ways. It is the disappearance of a true symbol (see the preceding article) but the high-place however appears always on the Geological Survey maps because of his strategic interest.

Social life

The memories of Cyrille LORRIAUX (secretary of town hall of the commune of 1905 to 1913) whom we will publish soon as well as the analysis of the registers of municipal deliberations enable us to underline the sharp exaltation which reigned at the village the day before the First World War. In the beginning, the majority of the weavers were weavers to the hand but misery had become large (wages of a household reduced to a franc per day) and much of workmen were to undertake the hoeing and the pulling up of beets abroad or the " defraud tabac". With the commercial and industrial development (cf Line of Cambrésis), the weavers gave up the weaving of wool for the weaving of the wire. Weaving " with the sonnette" replaced weaving with the hand and soon " the workman-weaver who vegetated and did not gain that a starvation wage deserted its trade to be done factory worker to the forging mills of Denain". It is about this time that the Employers' federation of the weavers is set up. Various documents to be attached to the memories of Cyrille LORRIAUX found in town hall inform us of some aspects of the trade-union activity of the workmen of the textile at the end of last century. In February 1889, a petition is addressed by the Employers' federation of the workman-weavers of Saint-Vaast " to make an attempt the painful and intolerable situation in which the economic crisis which the world passes through in general plunges the working population and our corporation en particulier'. In 1891, pub NOYELLE-- HAUTECCEUR located street (it Shovel becomes the seat of Employers' federation of the weavers. At the end of August 1906, of the strikes were organized during three weeks because of the competition created by mechanical weaving. In May 1906, following the Law of separation of the Church and the State and with the procedure of the Inventories, priest ANSIAUX was locked up with several of his faithful in the church and distributed booklets of canticles while the population " mécréante" " sang; Anticléricale" on the square. After several customary warnings, the door of the church is smashed and the police chiefs with the Inventories penetrated in the place of worship (cf Memories of Cyrille LORRIAUX).

My thanks for their invaluable collaboration and their assistance to Mr Fénelon BISIAUX, Mr Nicolas DHENNIN, Mr Michel LEROY (Mayor of Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis), Mr Alfred LORRIAUX, Mr Rene TAP (Secretary of the Historical Commission of North). Thierry LEROY

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of North

External bonds

Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis on the site of INSEE
Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Vaast-in-Cambrésis on a chart of France and communes bordering
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