The Pessac-on-Dordogne

the Pessac-on-Dordogne is a common French, located in the department of the the Gironde and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants is called the Pessacais and the Pessacaises .

Geography

  • Located on banks of the the Dordogne, the Pessac-on-Dordogne is a commune of the department of the the Gironde, halfway between Castillon-the-Battles and Holy-Foy-the-Large.

  • the common of Pessac is with the borders is Vignoble of the Between-Two-Seas, wine-producing area of the south of Bordeaux and vineyard of Holy-Foy-Bordeaux name.

Toponymy and etymology.

  • on August 3rd 1807, Pessac separates from Gensac and becomes a commune with whole share. The the Dordogne (river) playing a very important part in the history of the village, the inhabitants decide to name it the Pessac-on-Dordogne .

Localities and variations.

To feed, Donkey, Bellevue, the Shack, Carbonneau, Cavignan, At Pépé, Corrégie, Coursou, Dizard, Durège, the Guard, Bosom, Glayse, the Large Smallholding, Grangeneuve, Graule, Gréal, Guillemat, Laurençon, Macard, the Sailor, Mathelin, Maupile, Méjean, Montbreton, the Mill of Barbey, the Mill of Mayelle, the Mill of Moustelat, the Mill of the Rocket, Moustelat, Palateau, Restaurat, Ribebon, Rocket, Sablat, Soulège, Soulet, the Tower of Beaupoil.

Chart IGN 1737 west: Monségur.

Chart IGN 1736 west: Vélines.

Communes bordering

Gensac, Juillac; Saint-Avit-with-Soulège;

  • In the department of the the Dordogne:

Saint-Seurin-with-Prats.

History

  • Until 1807, Pessac on the Dordogne was attached to Gensac under the name of Pessac de Gensac (the bottom of Gensac). For the history precedent the partition, to confer itself on the entry Gensac.

  • the commune of Pessac on the Dordogne is created the August 3rd, 1807 . It is Charles Emmanuel Dupuch de Montbreton who becomes the first mayor. But he will quickly be resigned (on December 21st, 1807) with the reason which he is former deputy of the nobility and former emigrant.

It is Charles Durège who replaces it then.

  • Pessac is, at the time, a important port on the Dordogne. The quays are arranged since Louis XV, but throughout the XIXe century, their architecture and their accesses will be improved.

the Gabare S sail on the river, bringing the wood of Corrèze towards Libourne and Bordeaux for the manufacture of the wine barrels and the stakes of vines ( let us carassons ).
In the other direction, the barges charged with goods and materials go up the river drawn by oxen on the tow path, sometimes Right Bank, sometimes left bank, according to the currents.
Pessac is an essential halt on the Dordogne where freight is exchanged between barges able to sail on the high Dordogne and its high funds, and more corpulent barges adapted better during the low Dordogne, of the Estuaire of the Gironde and being able to go up the the Garonne to Bordeaux.
the local productions (food products, wines) and the travellers borrow the service of the barges to go up or descend the river. Before the creation of the railway line Libourne - Bergerac, the Dordogne is true the axis of communication of the area. (cf the river hope , CH. Signol ED. R. Laffont 1990).
many boatmen resident in Pessac on the Dordogne. One of the last is Albert Sandaran who ceases his activity after the Second world war. This owner gabarier was one of the first to install engines on his boats, which gave him an advantage vis-a-vis the other owners: three return tickets Pessac - Bordeaux in one week against only one for its competitors.
  • Pessac is also a not passage between two banks of the Dordogne. Between Castillon-the-Battles and Holy-Foy-the-Large, one counts Sept.
of it has Pessac, the ford and the vat is about with the site of the current bridge. About 1910, it is a abonnataire which obtained the right-of-way. He warns the customers by public posting in front of his pontoon: of “ a person with horse = 15 centimes ” with “ a sheep or a ewe = 1 centime ½ ”.
  • the law of the 10 Vendémiaire, year 4 (October 2nd 1795) obliges the Communes to count the population (names, first names, ages, professions, places of dwelling and communal origins).
a register dating from the Révolution (but unfortunately not dated with precision) counts the 630 inhabitants of more than 12 years, men and women.
This register also counts the professions occupied by the household heads. One can see there the importance of the river in the distribution of the trades and the number of families that the Dordogne, the barges and the wine made live at the time. (Document pleasantly lent by F. and F. PIGANEAU)

Administration

|- | align=right| August 3rd 1807 || align=" center" | E.C. Dupuch de Montbreton ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| December 21st 1807 || align=" center" | Charles Durège ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1825 || align=" center" | Adolphe Durège ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1830 || align=" center" | Jean Trachère ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1837 || align=" center" | Jean Verdier ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1840 || align=" center" | Henri Verdier ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1848 || align=" center" | Louis Driholle ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1850 || align=" center" | Adolphe Durège ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 1853 || align=" center" | Jules Verdier ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |- | align=right| 2001 || align=" center" | Michel Thomas ||align=" center" |. ||Mayor || |-

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Demography

Gastronomy

  • Pessac being located in the south-west of France, the gastronomy is rich in local dishes of country origin.

  • the patatas .

It acts of a filled paunch of pig with bread crumb, milk, eggs, lean meat of pig (head, ears, etc) and cooked in a bubble of pig.
the origin of the name is obscure; perhaps does it come owing to the fact that once lends, the paunch of pig resembles a large cooked potato (?)

  • the fricassee of pig .

  • the will jimboura .

It is a soup containing roll or of blood, made at the time when and prepared the pig is killed.

  • Of the conserve of duck .

Celebrities

  • Julien Viaud , more known under its name of writer Pierre Parcelled out White wife in 1887 Frankly of Tool bag, originating in Pessac. It will come several times to reside at the castle of Emptied, property of its beautiful family. A back grandson of Pierre Loti (Pierre-Yves Pierre Parcelled out-Viaud) always resides on the commune.

  • Marc Amanieux (1851 - 1926), writer, was born in Pessac on the Dordogne on January 16th, 1851. Its principal works are: the Schoolgirls (poetry) (1875), Great fights (Romance) (1879), Claude Fer (theater) (1885), Crucifiés (poetry) (1885), the Revolution (poetry) (1889), Formosa (Romance) (1891), terrestrial Drama (1892), the Pantheist Song (1893), the Girl of Rabelais (cloak and dagger novel) (1904).

Twinnings

Religious heritage

  • Church Saint-Vincent (XIIe century, altered in XVIe century; Byzantine bell-tower);

  • Temple of the XIXe century;

  • Many montjoies of which the Cross of the Cemetery .

Civil inheritance

  • Castle of Montbreton , XIVe and XVIIe centuries;

  • Manor of Bernède , old toll on the Dordogne river, XIVe and XVIIe centuries;

  • Château of Emptied , XVe, XVIIe and XIXe centuries;

  • Castle of Ribebon , XVIIe and XIXe centuries;

  • Castle of Carbonneau , XIXe century;

  • the Tower of Beaupoil , turn of defense of XIVe century;

  • Water mill of Moustelat , XVIIIe century.

Civil architecture

  • quays of the Dordogne , XVIIIe and XIXe centuries.

Animations

  • pedestrian Excursions .

  • Canoe Kayak .

  • Hiring VTT, VTC .

  • Fishing in river.

  • Hiring motor boats .

  • Tennis .

  • Fair with the secondhand trade : May 8th.

  • Festival of the Mills : 3rd Sunday of June.

Files

  • parochial Registers and of civil statue since:

  • municipal Deliberations since:

See too

  • Common of the Gironde

External bonds

  • the Pessac-on-Dordogne on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • the Pessac-on-Dordogne on the site of INSEE
  • the Pessac-on-Dordogne on the site of Quid
  • Localization of the Pessac-on-Dordogne on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on the Pessac-on-Dordogne on Mapquest

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