See also: Châtillon

the Châtillon-on-Seine is a common French, located in the north of the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy. The city is crossed by the high course of the the Seine and is located in an area of important main forests. It is the center of the Pays Châtillonnais (which gathers 113 communes), but also the town of High Coast-in Or most populated with 5.837 inhabitants (census 2006).

Geography

The city is located in the middle of important road axes and is favoured by its proximity with a6 highway. It is with 234km Paris (2h30), 83km of Dijon by the RD 971 (1h15), 68km of Troyes by the RD 971 (1h), 83km of Auxerre (1h15), 58km of Chaumont (Haute-Marne) by RD 965 (1h), 49km of Tonnerre (Yonne) (40min), 75km of Langres by RD 928 (1h) and 33km of Montbard by RD 980 (30min).

One can go to Paris in 1:30 by the station TGV of Montbard and the bus of Châtillon line - Montbard.

The city is crossed by the the Seine (which takes its source with 40km) and is located on a plate whose average altitude is higher than 300m. Its forest (8 875 ha) is the largest national forest of Burgundy and undoubtedly one of most beautiful.

History

The area counts many vestiges of occupation at the pre-Celtic and Celtic times, raised stones and especially Oppidum of the Lassois mount, located at 6 km of the city and which was an important center of habitat as of the Bronze Age. It is known that at the 8th century, the populations had moved on the current site of the city and had strengthened a hill, the Manor house who gave his name to Châtillon. In 886, the bishop of Langres, in order to put at the shelter the relics Holy Vorles, brought them to Châtillon. However, another strengthened enclosure existed on other bank of the the Seine and Châtillon was during all the Moyen-âge separate in two rival entities, one pertaining to Burgundian (Chaumont) and the other to the bishop of Langres (the Borough). In 1638, the two cities were joined together by a treaty under the authority of king de France.

With the fall of the First Empire, the Châtillon-on-Seine accommodated from February 7th to March 11th, 1814 the Congrès of Châtillon, where without a future took place of the negotiations between the ambassadors of the sovereigns Allié S and the representative of Napoleon i, Caulaincourt.

Administration

Demography

Economy

The city has an antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Dijon.

Places and monuments

  • the Saint-Vorles church: located on a hill which dominates the city the church dates from S. It is the site of origin of the city, occupied as of antiquity. Not far is the ruins of the castle of the dukes of Burgundy (13th century). With the foot of cliff is the source of Douix, resurgence of an underground river and place of worship as of the Celtic time.
  • the Saint Nicolas's Day church of the end of the 12th century.
  • the archaeological museum, located in a private mansion of Renaissance style, shelters a collection of objects discovered in the area, in particular the famous treasures of Vix, complete furniture of a Tombe to tank of the time of the first age of iron.
  • the convent of Cordeliers, rebuilt in 1630, it preserves an older cloister. It is there that the large general headquarter was held of the Maréchal Joffre at the time of the Bataille of the Marne.
  • the hotel of the Congress, private mansion of the 17th century which accommodated the Congrès of Châtillon.
  • the city inaugurated in May 2006 the theater Gaston-Bernard, being able to accommodate to 550 people.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the hero impossible to circumvent of the Châtillon-on-Seine is the marshal Marmont, Duc of Raguse and Pair of France. It is buried besides with the Saint-Vorles cemetery.
  • Close to him, is buried the Général Baron Claude Testot-Ferry, which was a long time its first aide-de-camp, and which finished its life in the Châtillon-on-Seine.
  • Edme-Louis-Gustave Tridon member of the Council of the Common of Paris, appointed with the National Assembly in 1871, born in Châtillon in 1841.
  • Louis-Paul Cailletet physicist, it is the first to liquefy nitrogen the dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, the atmospheric air.
  • Desired Nisard member of the French Academy, commander of the Legion of honor.
  • Nicolas Henri Carteret Representing of the people to the legislative Parliament of 1849, elected appointed in 1857 in the third district of the the Marne, founder of the agricultural Show of Rheims, officer of the Legion of honor.
  • Kiki de Montparnasse singer, actress, model and painter Frenchwoman.
  • Georges Mailfert, ace of the First World War, which was born on December 21st, 1875 there.
  • Francis Carco writer, poet, journalist and author of French songs.

See too

  • Common of Coast-in Or

External bonds

  • Official site of the city
  • the Châtillon-on-Seine on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the Châtillon-on-Seine on the site of INSEE
  • the Châtillon-on-Seine on the site of Quid
  • Localization of the Châtillon-on-Seine on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on the Châtillon-on-Seine on Mapquest
  • http://www.burgundytoday.com/towns/chatillon-sur-seine.htm - Year information site in English butt the Burgundy area off France

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