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Sardent is a common French, located in the department of the Creuse and the area the Limousin.

Geography

This charming locality, located at hillside of a broad timbered small valley, is geographically in the center of the department of the Creuse between Guéret (16 km) and Bourganeuf (17 km). Sardent remains a commune with broad agricultural vocation (primarily of the breedings). It counts 828 inhabitants, divided between the borough and the 53 hamlets which structure the territory. Among the creusoises communes, Sardent is announced by an important surface of 41 11 hectares.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the church of the beginning of the 12th century, whereas its vaults are posterior, always preserves several crosses and an enamelled and gilded copper reliquary, the XII and 19th century.
On the place of the church is to be noticed:

- the balustrade where letters SARDENT are in pure granite creusois - the monument with the memory of Dr. Vincent. This granite monument was set up in 1937 thanks to a popular subscription, to pay homage to Doctor Alphonse Vincent, was called " The Doctor of Pauvres" because of its devotion and its generosity. It consists of a bust and two bronze low-reliefs. In 1943, the bust was confiscated by the mode of Vichy, within the framework of the " recovery of metals non-ferreux" intended for the German occupying army. The two low-reliefs were respected. In 1955 a counterpart of the bust was realized starting from the plaster that the sculptor had given to the widow of Dr. Vincent. This second bronze bust was positioned back and inaugurate in June 1956. For this time the plaster has been preserved at the Town hall of Sardent.

Personalities related to the commune

Eugene Jamot (1879 - 1937) - Born in 1879 with Borie, hamlet of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields, it made studies of medicine in Montpellier. In 1908 it settled in Sardent. Two years it renonça to later exert the medicine of countryside to pass the entrance examination to the School of application of the department of health of the colonial troops in Marseilles, known as " School of Pharo". Left into 1911 this high-place of training in tropical medicine, it made a first stay in Black Africa before entering to the Pasteur Institute of Paris where it studied until 1914 while specializing in the parasitoses. At the end of its training course it was named sub-manager of the Institute Pasteur de Brazzaville.

From 1916 to 1931 it was devoted to the fight against the human trypanosomiasis. More known under the name of " disease of the sommeil" , this parasitic disease is due to a protozoon transmitted of the animal to the man by the puncture of a fly (known as fly " tsé-tsé"). Always mortal in the absence of treatment, this disease owes her name with the fact that to the pre-final phase the patients present a permanent somnolence.

The African trypanosomiasis evolved/moved during the centuries by large epidemic waves. Uganda and the Basin of Congo were devastated of 1896 to 1906. From 1920 a second epidemic started to decimate central Africa and of the west. It is this second thorough which was effectively fought in Cameroun and Burkina-Fasso by Colonel Jamot and his teams. This success was worth a considerable glory to him. It was covered with honors and was proposed for the Nobel Prize.

But, in November 1931, during one of his voyages between France and Cameroun, Colonel Jamot was unloaded of force in Dakar and put at the close arrest. The Ministry for the Overseas territories held it for personally responsible for serious therapeutic accidents which have occurred in the sector of Bafia, where 700 people had become blind following a treatment applied by one of its assistants.

At that time, only some drugs were effective. They were derived from arsenic, inducing notable toxic effects. In 1928 one of these products (tryparsamide) had been managed by a young doctor - of his own initiative and without referring to Colonel Jamot about it - with triple amounts of those which were recommended. Tryparsamide started optical neurites at nearly a thousand of patients, who became blind. Jamot could not put forward its innocence, and it paid dearly for the acts of its subordinate. It had to give up taking again its campaigns in Cameroun, and spent the following years to Ouagadougou in an environment of permanent suspicion.

Deeply discouraged, it took advantage of its rights to the retirement and, at the beginning of 1936, it was withdrawn in Sardent which it had left 25 years before. It took again there with valiancy its last activity of country doctor. But the public rumor there had preceded and continued. Whatever was its immense glory passed, it had become " that which made blind of the thousands of africains". In spite of its devotion, its activity did not enable him to put an end to important financial problems. And it is a man broken morally and physically who died in Sardent on April 24th, 1937 of an cerebral vascular accident.

Sources: Thesis of Doctor Marcel BEBEY EYIDI - the winner of the Disease of the Sleep - Doctor Eugene Jamot (1879-1937). Preface of Doctor Louis AUJOULAT, Secretary of State in France of Overseas - 1950. ----

Alphonse Vincent (1880-1935), doctor, exerted in Sardent of 1918 to 1935. He was mayor of Sardent and socialist general adviser of the Hollow one.

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the director Claude Chabrol, sardentais of origin, made its first film the Beautiful Serge in the commune.

---- visit the site of association Doctor Eugene Jamot:

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External bonds

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

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