Sampigny

Sampigny is a common French, located in the department of the Meuse and the area Lorraine.

Geography

Borough located on left bank of the Meuse, on the road between Commercy and Saint-Mihiel.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Vestiges of a traditional castle, built about 1630 for the prince de Phalsbourg. The architect Jacques Labrosse, says one, took again here the party which it had already implemented at the Palais of Luxembourg that it had carried out in Paris for the queen Marie de Médicis. It is however seen that Sampigny was less ambitious. Built in bottom of the village, apart from the perimeter of an older castle, the castle was a quadrilateral of beautiful size, confined square towers, adopting the great a little austere style then in vogue: chainings of angle, windowframes with embossings, very little carved decoration. Prince de Phalsbourg died in 1631; the princess was forced to flee Lorraine at the time of the Guerre Thirty Year old, which was disastrous for the castle. On its return - with its third husband, an Italian marquis - the castle was not livable any more. The marquis undertook the restoration then. The castle was inhabited until the First World War; bombarded in 1914-1918, it was not raised and does not remain any more but by its sorry frontages.

the small castle of the Field, in top of the village, was built for the president Raymond Poincaré. It adopts a style néo-Louis XIII out of bricks and stones, where multiple volumes and the varied shapes of the roofs form a rather picturesque unit, moderated by the discretion of decoration. Damaged him also during the Great War, the castle was then restored. It shelters the museum Raymond Poincaré now.

Personalities related to the commune

the prince de Phalsbourg and the princess had the seigniory and made build the traditional castle (see above). The prince, the princess and the last husband of this one are buried in the St Lucia church.

the president Raymond Poincaré resided in the castle of the Field.

Pierre Jacquinot (1910 - 2002) was in love with Sampigny. Resulting from 3 generations of Vicq Sampignolais (Eugenie, her mother; Camille, his/her grandfather doctor of the village and Edouard, his back grandfather), it passed all its childhood there and there is resource on many occasions in the family home which it preserved all his life. It rests now in the cemetery of the village to with dimensions of his Francoise wife, her mother and her grandfather. It was a large very known physicist for his work in physics of the atoms and for the development of the spectroscopy of Fourier who deeply marked the techniques used in optics. Also large administrator, Pierre Jacquinot is managing director of the CNRS of 1962 to 1969. It is a true change which takes place, thanks to him, in this establishment. The creation of the concept of " laboratories associés" a new spirit of co-operation between the Academics and CNRS establishes. By setting up at the head of CNRS a college of scientific directors who assist the managing director in the relations with the laboratories, it creates a real user-friendliness with the community of the researchers. Cordial and convincing professor, it occupied the pulpit of spectroscopy of the University of Orsay of 1957 to 1978. He was elected with the Academy of Science in 1966 and was his president of 1981 to 1982. It receipt the gold medal of CNRS in 1978. Pierre Jacquinot was Commandeur of the legion of honor (1979), Grand-croix of the national order of the Merit (1992), Commandeur of the academic Palms (1962).

See too

Common of the Meuse

External bonds

Sampigny on the site of the national geographical Institute
Sampigny on the site of INSEE
Sampigny on the site of Quid
Localization of Sampigny on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Sampigny on Mapquest

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