The Chézy-on-Marne

the Chézy-on-Marne is a common French, located in the department of the Aisne and the area Picardy. Its inhabitants is the Chézyacois , also called the Guernouillats and Guernouillates , the commune having adopted for emblem the Grenouille.

Geography

The Chézy-on-Marne is located on the plate of the Champagne Brie, with seven kilometers in the south-west of Castle-Thierry. The village is crossed by the Dolloir, an affluent of the Marne. The aqueduct of Dhuis, conceived by the Baron Haussmann to feed Paris out of water, also crosses the territory of the commune.

The commune is served by a Gare ('' the Chézy-on-Marne '') of the line Paris - Castle-Thierry () .

Localities

Hamlet X : Castle of the Abbey, Moncet, Rocks.
Variation S : Old mill of Wood, Arrouard (old mill), Bayard (old mill), Casinière, Chaillois-l' Abbey, Estolins, Large-Ru, Guilleterie, Ragrenet (old mill), the Small-Tail, Midsummer's Day, Verdelettes.
Firm S : Avréaux, Bézarderie, Brochot, Chevance, Harmandot, Large Luquis, Small Luquis, Pislouvet, Proslins, Ramonerie, Large Troncet, Small Troncet.

History

The site of the commune is populated since 4 000 years. At the time Gallo-Roman, it names Casiacus, then Casiei. After the foundation of the abbey of Saint-Pierre on the edges of the Marne by the order Benedictine, it becomes Chézy the Abbey. The abbey burns into 887 at the time of the invasions Normans. At the 12th century, fleeing the engagements between the troops of Louis VI the Large and of Thibaud de Champagne, the monks rebuild the abbey in the middle of the village. In 1414 penadnt the War One hundred Year old, in order to counter the English invaders, the village is strengthened and the abbey transformed into strong Château, but this one is set fire to at once and will be definitively destroyed shortly after the Révolution. In 1791 Chézy the Abbey became the Chézy-on-Marne.

Before 1755, at the time when the road of Germany (current trunk road 3 of Paris to Saarbrucken) still skirts its ramparts, the borough knows a rather great prosperity. One manufactures there fabrics and one made there the trade of the wine and grains, which is been useful by a commercial port established on the Marne. During several centuries, in addition to the abbey church, the borough has two parish churches: Saint-Martin-of in-Low, located apart from the walls at the edge of the Parer which will be destroyed towards 1850, and Saint-Martin-of in-High which, devastated by the Guerre One hundred Year old, will be rebuilt between 1515 and 1555. At the time modern, in spite of terrible devastations due to the war of 1870 and the two world wars, the construction of a station the SNCF on the line Paris - Strasbourg will give a new rise to the village.

the vineyard
Attested as of 855 by a manuscript signed by Charles the Bald person, the Viticulture is closely related to the history of the commune. In also the parochial registers testify, which give a report on many families of vine growers. One reports that wine of Luquis, ground of Chézy, would have been used with the table as François I {{er}}. Between 1760 and 1900, the common one counts approximately 110 hectares of vines. The wine of Chézy receives name champagne in 1889. Following the devastations of the Phylloxéra, which followed a little later it will be necessary several decades so that the vineyard finds all its extent. This one is approximately 150 hectares in 2005. The Cépage is composed in major part of pinots black. Several vines of Chézy belong to the field Moet & Chandon.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Saint Martin's day church, classified in 1913. The tower of the bell-tower, of style Rebirth, carries the Monogram S of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis, as well as the crescent of the moon of Diane of Poitiers. A Bas-relief of the northern gate represents the salamander, emblem of François I {{er}}. Inside the church a statue of Sainte Genevieve is protecting Paris, reduction of the work of Paul Landowski
Ruines of the Saint-Pierre abbey, on the place of the village.
Court of the Small towers, old residence seigneuriale dating from the medieval time .
House of the 15th century, on the place of the village, with gallery and Half-timbering S.
Old press and old laundrette, on banks of the Parer.

Personalities related to the commune

Oscar Plunders , (born with the Essômes-on-Marne on January 22nd, 1823, deceased in the Chézy-on-Marne on March 19th, 1886). Former magistrate, member of the General advice of Aisne, member of the archaeological Company of Castle-Thierry, he was mayor of Chézy during 20 years. Source: lavieremoise.free.fr
Paul Landowski , 1875-1961, sculptor, resides of the localities Estolins, with which one owes the war memorial of the commune, as well as the statue of the Christ redeemer which dominates bay of Rio de Janeiro.
Andre Rossi , 1921-1994, mayor of the Chézy-on-Marne in 1962-1971, appointed of Aisne in 1958-1981, Secretary of State and government spokesman Jacques Chirac in 1974-1976, Minister for the foreign trade of the government Raymond Barre in 1976-1978.
Christian Cabrol , born in the Chézy-on-Marne in 1925, surgeon and pioneer of the heart transplant, European deputy in 1994-1999, assistant of the mayor of Paris in 1996-2001.

Companies

Melitta France SAS, manufacturer of coffee filters, with a manpower of 300 paid in 2004.
35 small companies in 2005, of which several farms and viticultural.

Twinning

See too

Common of Aisne

External bonds

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

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