The Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Savoy)

the Pont-de-Beauvoisin is a common French, located in the department of the Savoy and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Also crossed by the trunk road N° 6 like common the homonym iséroise, it is served by a station of the SNCF accessible only by FOR THE THIRD TIME the, single one for the two cities, and located in Isere.

History

French city since the fastening of Savoy in France in 1860.

The commune of Bridge of Beauvoisin, on the other side of Guiers, it, becomes French in 1349 by the fastening of the Dauphiné in France.

Frontier towns, they are the place of some of the exploits of Louis Mandrin, captured with Rochefort, close village.

(See History of Bridge by the Pontois Museum).

Characteristic

Since November 7th, 1963, the exact names of the two cities are Pont-de-Beauvoisin in Isere and the Pont-de-Beauvoisin in Savoy, even if many administrative documents do not manage this precision correctly, but one thus goes to the Pont (to Savoy) and to Pont (in Isere) locally. (soon photographs of the 2 road panels)

Administration

Demography

Culture

Personalities of the city

Emmanuel Crétet of Champmol, born on February 10th, 1747 at the Pont-de-Beauvoisin in Savoy, dead on November 28th, 1809 in Paris, administrator and French politician, appointed in 1795, senator and adviser of State in 1799, first governor of Banque de France then Minister of Interior Department of Napoleon in 1807. It is buried with the the Pantheon of Paris. (The garden of city bears its name since September 15th, 2007).
His/her brother, Henri Crétet, mayor of the commune, of which the tomb stone is in the church of the Carmelite friars
Élie Perrin, painter become pontois, its biography on Mémoires of the Countries of Guiers

Places and monuments

The bridge on Guiers

City must its name with bridge François Ier which crosses Guiers, river local, which separates the two cities which bear the same name, one in Savoy, the other in Isere.
Ce bridge initially of wood, was the subject of a project out of stone, going back to 1543, established under the king François Ier (from where his name) but it was carried out only in 1583, after his death.
En back of ass, it was rebuilt with a flat apron to allow the passage of fit with body.
Détruit in 1940 to be opposed to the passages troops of occupation, it was rebuilt with modern methods (metal members) and was covered with part of the initial stones.
the remainder of the stones is still visible in the river, since the bridge. Photographs of the demolished bridge and its rebuilding

The church of the Carmelite friars

It goes back to 1419. Restoration by the native of Bridge Emmanuel Crétet.
- Architecture remarkable with nave with only one side, typical of the orders beggars,
- Vault of the Ten Thousand Martyrs (restored),
- Paintings (going back to 1844 and classified in 1987) out of 2.800 m2 of the walls and the vaults carried out by the two brothers Alonzo and Giuseppe Antonio Piedmontese Avondo, decorators of church ( the Deposition and the Christ of Gethsemani are two remarkable examples here their work).
- Stained glasses of the 19th century, table of Jacques de Clermont and its wife Jeanne of Poitiers,
- Pavement with 45 tumulary stones, engraved flagstones.
- Tomb stones the noble ones, of which that of the noble Jean Louis, curiosity comprising two guns. Those of Henri Crétet (brother of Emmanuel Crétet), Jean de Montbel, of Anne de Varax, Charles-Gabriel Pravaz,

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