Salbris

Salbris is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

Salbris is a city located in the Sologne, place chief of canton of Loir-et-Cher.

History

The name of Salbris refers to a passage on the Sauldre (" Briva" will salt; , in the Gallic language), perhaps a ford rather than a bridge.

Many “tombelles” (monticules being used of tomb or memorial) in the neighborhoods (Coursangeon, Hatters) testifies to a human presence at the end of prehistoric times (age of iron).

The Roman way coming from Meung-sur-Loire passed the river on the level of the current dead end of the Cure, then followed the street of Berry and continued towards Bourges; to the north of Sauldre, it followed the street of Pittingues appreciably, then the road of Saint-Viâtre.

The first mention of Salbris goes back to 855, like possession of the Saint-Sulpice abbey of Bourges. The borough was of a reduced extent and was limited to the streets radiating around the church, going to the west to the post office, and the east to the current cemetery.

There existed in Salbris a seigniory depending on Ferté-Imbault; the lord of Salbris perceived in particular the incomes of the toll of Sauldre, but its strong house of it was distant (Arteloup, now common of Theillay). Family of Stamps which obtained finally Ferté-Imbault (on which it depended in XVe century) was a long time holder of the seigniory.

On the economic plan, Salbris will develop at the XIXe century with the development of the imperial way Paris-Toulouse (current the RN 20) and the service entrance of the railroad (1847). The population progresses then quickly: of 1256 inhabitants in 1790, then 1738 inhabitants in 1851, it exceeds 6000 at the present time. Today, Salbris is resolutely turned towards industry; it has moreover many sporting and tourist structures.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Moved away from all the French borders (like the city close to Bourges), Salbris lived a long time thanks to the mono industry of the armament. The successive departures of the companies Thomson, GIAT and Matra oblige the city to reconvert its economy.

The reconversion of the territory of Salbris offers opportunities to the investors in a basin of use of 80.000 inhabitants (triangle Salbris - Romorantin - Vierzon) to 45 km of Bourges, 60 km of Orleans and 180 km of Paris.

Common the pilot reconversion of the old site MBDA which it transformed into an industrial allotment called the " Technoparc de Salbris". The totality of the workshops of this zone already found taking. More than one ten SME were installed on this allotment protected and profiting from a guarding the night, the weekends and bank holidays. The site accommodates activities varied such as electronics, the precision mechanics, the manufacture of PLV, colorimetry… On the zone, one counts also to many service providers, like chartered accountants, lawyers or consultants. There remain still 14 hectares of industrial grounds enclosed to build.

The commune, the General advice of Loir-et-Cher, the Ministry for Defense and the company of reconversion SOFRED proposed with the American PROLOGIS, world number 1 of logistics, associated with the haulage company orléanaise DERET, to install in Salbris an international platform on the old sites of GIAT Industrie.

The Development agency of common the pilot a partnership with China, whose objective is to facilitate the establishment in Europe of Chinese industrial companies.

Places and monuments

The church

Salbris had a Prieuré Abbaye bénédictine of Saint-Sulpice of Bourges mentioned as of IXe century. The Saint-Georges church has part of XIIe century (the square of the Transept). The nave could date from XIVe century. The vaults constituting the arms of the transept were added to XVIe century. The most remarkable part is the chorus, also dating from XVIe century. It is proportions higher than the remainder of the building, which seems to indicate that one intended to rebuild all the church in the same style. At the bottom of the chorus was set up in 1682 a traditional Retable of Style marble and stone, decorated with the statues of God the Father, holy Georges and holy Joseph. The central part is occupied by a Pieta of the beginning of the XVIIe century, coming from the Saint-Sulpice abbey of Bourges, and is acquired by the priest in 1791. The stone high altar dates from the beginning of the XVIIe century and comes from the Carmelite friars from Bourges.

The vault Notre-Dame de Pitié

The vault Notre-Dame de Pitié (or of the Seven-Pains) was, still with the XVIIIe century, a Sanctuaire with respite, where certain parents brought the corpse of a child still-born child, in the hope which the Virgin would give again to him life during a few moments, time to confer the baptism to him and thus to allow him to enter to the paradise. At the XIXe century, the Virgin of Salbris was in great veneration for the expectant mothers or layers, or for the patients at the end. Until the Second world war, one led the children in languor to it or convulsionnés.

The vault, which would date from the beginning of the XVIIe century, has a wood retable, also XVIIe century, decorated with a carved group and a painting appearing both the Virgin of Pity.

The castle of Rivaulde

Salbris has many fields with architecture typically solognote (half-timberings and bricks). One of most beautiful is probably that of Rivaulde whose castle goes back to 1524, but which was rebuilt in 1902 by the Coulon architect. It is then a gift of Henri Schneider with his wife, Euxodie Asselin (1853-1942).
In XVe century, Rivaulde was a castle-extremely pertaining to the family of the lords of Ferté-Imbault. Transformed into manor, it belongs to the XIXe century with the painter Toulouse-Lautrec. At the end of his life, the ruined painter will resell in 1882 the whole of the property on 3000 hectares with the brothers Schneider, rich person industrial of Creusot, which demolishes the old fortress and makes rebuild the building that one knows today. Vast dimensions, with its dependences and in particular the stables (which one can visit, road of Souesmes), the castle of Rivaulde is then called “the small Be worth-the-Viscount”.
Mrs Henri Schneider makes of Rivaulde his residence of predilection. There, it collects movable old and objects of Article hunting holds a great place in the social life, the establishment and the maintenance of relational networks. In sumptuous receptions, it as well receives the aristocratic members of families such as Luynes, of Harcourt, of Broglie, Rochefoucault, as those of the industrial upper middle classes like Hennessy, Lebaudy, of Wendel, Sellière. A photograph going back to 1913 attests on vacation presence of Prince de Galles to the castle. Great names of the nobility, finance, industry and diplomacy count among accustomed of the family.

In the years 1950, the Schneider heirs cannot maintain any more this enormous masonry which is resold with the Michelin Group. This one makes a summer camp of it then gives up it with the plunderers. In the years 1960, the castle is resold parcelled out in joint ownerships. In 1985 a golf by a Parisian industrial rich person is built, but this one gone bankrupt in 1996 and the installations are resold with the town hall of Salbris. The remainder of the 3000 hectares is divided by the descendants of the Sauvage branch of Brantes, from which is resulting, inter alia, Anne-Aymone, wife of President Giscard d'Estaing, or the father of this one, Francois, resistant died to Mauthausen (Austria) in 1944.

Others

Salbris has some restored old houses, street of Gascogne, street Anne-Grelat, street of the General-Giraud (pharmacy to the corner of the RN 20). The current boulevard of Republic (RN 20) date probably of the Middle Ages, and was restored in 1751.

Saulot is a building built by Auguste Perret and its brother in 1907 - 1908, being used as relai of hunting. The principal body is of octagonal form with two small wings. Its style is close to those of the movement Arts & Crafts.

The city has the largest circuit of Karting with the world on which several championships of the world were already organized.

Personalities related to the commune

Henri Schneider (1840-1898)

Born in Creusot on December 10th, 1840, it made its studies in Paris. Manager of the factory with died of his father, Eugene, it remains with the head of the company of 1875 until his death.

Henri Schneider Marie her five children in the nobility. It is not any more at its stage by concern of increasing the business which was sat by the matrimonial strategy of the former generation. It is earlier a lifestyle which attracts Schneider, with for Henri Schneider, an obvious nostalgia for monarchical times. Matrimonial alliances made it possible Schneider to consolidate and develop their network of relations even if Henri derogates somewhat from this strategy since he marries successively the two girls of the mistress of his father, Mrs Asselin. But it has the concern of marrying his daughters in the high society: they become Marquise of Chaponay (with this marriage the duke of Chartres itself and the duke of Broglie are pilot), Marquise of Juigné, Marquise of Brantes, Comtesse of Ganay. His/her son Eugene, second of the name (Eugene II, as in the royal families) meets at Madam of Clermont-Thunder his future wife, Antoinette de Rafélis of Saint-Saver, whose father, ruined, had committed suicide but who belongs to a family of old nobility.

The Schneider family represents the generation of the paternalist owners. At the time, it was about a social innovation. They build schools, working residences with gardens and are concerned with teaching of morals and especially of the Catholic religion. The removal of the coffees and the cabarets (places of development of alcoholism and propagation of the socialist ideas), the encouragement of the housework of the women and the creation of an image of the ideal family unit take part of this desire of raising the moral standard. Finally, the Schneider family represents a model sitting on work, the religion and the family. The Schneider family is unceasingly honoured in a true worship with the employers' family and her chief, the owner, and her aïeux.

Henri Schneider dies on May 17th, 1898.

Madeleine the Sologne (1912-1995)

Madeleine Vouillon (true name of Madeleine the Sologne) was born in 1912 with Ferté-Imbault, close to Salbris. She practices initially the trade of modiste, before devoting herself to the theater. Madeleine the Sologne begins with the cinema by incarnating a worker in the Life is with us of Jean Renoir in 1936. She will then play in Tattooed Raphaël the of Christian-Jacque, Fièvres of Jean Delannoy in 1941, the Wolf of Malveneur , Guillaume Radot (see below) in 1943. But it is in the Eternal return of Jean Delannoy, in 1943, on a scenario of Jean Cocteau, that Madeleine the Sologne obtained her greater success. For the youth of the time, it incarnated with Jean Marais the ideal couple. The following films had less success. She died in 1995 with Vierzon.

See too

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

Official site
Tourist office of Salbris
Development agency of Salbris
Salbris on the site of the national geographical Institute
Salbris on the site of INSEE
Salbris on the site of Quid
Localization of Salbris on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Salbris on Mapquest
Swing41, Jazz festival, Homage to Django Reinhardt

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