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Saint Paul-the-Dax is a common French, located in the department of the Landes and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants is called the Paulois Saint.

Geography

History

Origin

The Hameau of St-Paul located on Right Bank of the Adour at height of the town of Dax has its history narrowly been dependant on this one. The typical location makes of it a advanced position of defense of the city and the required passage towards the high moor.

Gallo-Roman time

The three Rancid valleys of the , the Mahourat and Ardy are the seat of a agro-pastoral economy. The names of the particular sites of Bilain or Vielle attest presence in these places of Gallo-Roman villas and recent research detected the reality of an artisanal activity of exploitation of the ore of Fer to Abesse as of the 2nd century of our era (presence of low hearths).

the Middle Ages

It is then necessary to wait the 12th century to find a testimony written of the assistance brought by Aliénor of Aquitaine to the construction of the church of Saint-Paul: refuge located on the way of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle and allowing to accommodate and look after the pilgrims. One can admire the Abside this one testifying to the Catalan influence and Navarrese on the local Art. The area falling later under the English domination from the Duke from Guyenne, a text of 1326 will fix the limits of the Paroisse S neighbors by the installation of a stone remained famous: the Pierre de Tinon. The Prince de Galles will fix the inhabitants of St-Paul to the defense of the ramparts of Dax.

Absolute royalty

Although the successive kings Henri IV, Louis XIII or Louis XIV appreciated warlike fidelity and qualities of the inhabitants, they left few testimonys of their generosity being satisfied to cross the village to give in state the roads enabling them to go in Spain.

The Revolution

The common of St-Paul is born with the Révolution. February 8th, 1790, it obtains finally its identity. After having failed to be called Red Bonnet, it becomes independent under the name of Saint-Paul-the-Dax in 1792. The vast communal territory that the new municipality must manage will be the object of desire of all its neighbors, in particular Dax which lost there the major part of its agricultural domain.

The Restoration and the Empire

Two municipal municipal officials will carry out a fight baited to safeguard the communal territory. The first Haza Loustalet will fix the exact limiting after many Procès with the common neighbors. The second Bertrand Geoffroy will develop the metallurgical industry with Abesse and Ardy doing of St-Paul one of the most important centers of the area. The arrival of the Train in Gare of St-Paul will ruin this economy and will be the cause of the loss of the Sablar.

3 {{E}} Republic

It is at that time that St-Paul takes an increasingly strong importance in the department, going until to compete with its neighbor. She owes it with a significant development of her diversified industry: Tuile laugh (Sougen-Prudet), Fonderie (Maxalde), forging mills (Abesse, Ardy), Scierie S (Darricau, Lespare), Minoterie (Lartigue with Poustagnac) and even a Distillerie and a Tannerie with the Capot. The borough structure around its new school bright burning coal under the authority of a Mayor Auguste Lartigue which of 1888 with 1919 will govern the destinies of the Commune.

Time comtemporaine

After the 2 {{E}} world war, the city will make new great strides thanks to the development of the industry of the building. Under the impulse of the municipality, the Population increases quickly and exceeds the 10 000 inhabitants thanks to the communal effects of a political volunteer of Allotment S. The thermal industry and tourist develops around new the Lac of Christus created in 1974, supported by the presence of the discovered thermal springs with Sébastopol and SPDX1. The marketing activity takes a new rise around the two main roads: the avenue of the Resistance (the Grip) and the avenue Holy Vincent of Paul (the Email). The economic activity develops in the industrial park road of Castets. 3 mayors will have left their print on Saint-Paul

Camille DUSSARTHOU: the nursery school and the allotments (1954)
Henri LAVIELLE: the Lake Christus, hydrotherapy, the college (1974)
Jean-Pierre PENICAUT: drilling thermal, economic development and commercial, the College. (1997)

Administration

Demography

Tourist monuments and places

Romance Church (S|XII|E)

Culture

European Festival of the artists of Circus (November)

Economy

Thermal spa (10th French station)

Famous characters Thierry LACROIx

Twinnings

References

See too

Common of the Moors
Tourism in the Moors
Hydrotherapy
List of the French thermal spas

External bond

Official site
Saint-Paul-the-Dax on the site of Plane INSEE
of Saint-Paul-the-Dax on Mapquest

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