Talencieux

Talencieux is a village of the Ardèche of approximately 850 inhabitants (2002).

Geography

Exact situation: France, area the Rhone-Alps, Department of Ardeche, Canton of Annonay-South, District of the Tournon-on-Rhone.

The common one has an total surface area of 710 hectares, including 100 of wooded surface and 350 of agricultural surface (including 50 of vineyard AOC St-Joseph).

Etymology

The origin of the name Talencieux would come from Latin Talenciacum field from “Talencius” or “Tallentius”. This “Talencius” would have been the owner of the Gallo-Roman field dating from the 2nd century after J.C whose vestiges were put at the day in 1971.

Gallo-Roman city

Indeed the basement of Talencieux still nowadays hides the vestiges of the Gallo-Roman villa “most considerable so that it seems, of the surroundings of Annonay” (according to A. Mazon). In 1971, the archaeological group of the House of the Young people of Annonay undertakes a series of surveys. “Our work on the site of Talencieux was obviously only one modest survey and not an exhaustive excavation. It less did not show of it the richness of the site and its great interest for the study of the Gallo-Roman period in our area” told us Doctor Michel Guigal. Today, an interesting collection of the potteries discovered is presented to the Museum César Filhol d' Annonay.

Siver-bearing black lead

On the territory of the commune, the forest dissimulates the traces of the old exploitation of a mining seam of siver-bearing Plomb. This seam was exploited of 1736 with 1873. In 1780, more than 100 people were employed on the site. Many of these workmen were German or Alsatian, certain descendants of these families still reside at Talencieux. A talk presenting the history of the mine can be consulted in Town hall.

Retable of the XVIIe century

A retable going back to 1630 was found in the attics of a local residence. The elements (in bad condition) were registered with the additional inventory of Antiquities and objets d'art of the department, then, restored.

External bonds

Official site of the town of Talencieux

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