The Vault-Saint-Laurent

the Vault-Saint-Laurent is a common French, located in the department of the Two-Sevres and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Geography

History

Men lived with the Vault-Saint-Laurent as of prehistoric times as the discovery of many tools attests it, the majority in half is commune. Going back to 30.000 to 35.000 years before double-side J.C two scrapers moustériens were found one close close relation of Barbère, the other close to the mill of Mothes. Three axes of the neolithic age in the fields close to the Tumulus close to the castle to the Mounds-Coupoux and a fourth found close to the Grass. Lastly, close to the Scrap-metal a bronze axe with casing of the final Bronze Age The history did not have the precise memory of the events which proceeded in the parish during the Middle Ages, time in connection with which one has only very rare files.

The population lived black years during the one hundred year old war, with the passage of roughneck soldiers of the large companies and English soldiers whereas the famished wolves howled with the horn of wood and that one feared the wizards and the presence of the devil. Chapelais, as of XIIIe century, accommodated sometimes some isolated pilgrims.

Contrary to certain parishes of the neighborhoods, the Vault-Saint-Laurent where the huguenots, in 1561, burned the Barrion priest in his church, never counted many religionnaires. In 1639, having abjured in the presence of a monk about Saint-Augustin, a Commercial sior, after having received extreme oiling was buried in the St. Lawrence church. The same favor, a little later, was granted after its conversion the lady Gabrielle Caffard, widow of Jean Roy. In 1642, the archpriest Gabriel Voisine blesses engagement of Jeanne Mercier to Abraham Roy, which had converted for its nearest marriage. During years which followed, a certain number of inhabitants of Pugny, the Vault-Saint-Etienne, Moncoutant, Largeasse and Coulonges-The-Royal, preferring not to abjure in their respective communes, came to disavow their faith huguenote in the church of the Vault. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes per Louis XIV, on October 15th, 1685, the dragonnades began again of more beautiful. The arrival of undesirable “missionaries boots” terrorized the inhabitants.

Peasants had gone to fight with the catholic army, the grounds had remained with the abandonment and of the houses and the farms had been burnt in January 1794, by the soldiers of Prévignaud and under the Consulate, Chapelais rebuild. Repairs were carried out with the windmill of Bardonnière and the roadway of the pond of Chenulière which had broken making the road unusable,

After the black years of the Revolution, Chapelais, their found freedom, and removed from the visits of the décimateurs coming, once the made harvest, to claim the share of the lord and the priest, accommodated the advent of Napoleon with satisfaction.

In 1802, the mayor of the Vault-Saint-Laurent, Jacques Grimaud requested of the Charbonneaux Sub-prefect the authorization to create four new fairs, two in the borough, two in Pitié. Not having obtained anything it renewed its request the following year and this time, of its beautiful feather of teacher, it added this singular postscript: “I found you butter. You spoke to me about the prefect. If it is necessary some for him it would make well be caught there as of now. I assure you, in any case who that I will send to you will be as good as that of last year”. And the first municipal magistrate, helping butter, obtained what he asked.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Pond of Mothes*: splendid water levels.
Olivette* Pond whose water bleaches each year.
Ponds of Courberive, Rataudières, Briant.
Rocher says Chiron of Vierge*, place of devotion: the Claws of the Devil and the Step of the Virgin are visible there.

Timbre with the Cat, where the cats met according to the legend the evening of the Carnival, during a feast given by the devil.

the legend: In the Vault-Saint-Laurent, it is with the locality “the Humeau-Tap” with the crossing of the road of Pity in Moncoutant, of the old road of Pugny and a small dirt track which one can see the “Stamp with the Cats”. There, in the night of the Shrove Tuesday all the tom cats of the vicinity were assembled. After having deposited in the stone trough, the reliefs concealed with their Masters, they feasted and organized an unrestrained round around a great strapping fellow. Misfortune with indiscreet which, intrigued by their noisy concert of mewings would have gone so far as to come to disturb their satanic reunions. In less time than one should not any to write it, it would have perished, attacked by hundreds of acute claws before being devoured to the bones by thousands of sharp-edged teeth. Farmers of the vicinity, formerly, being seized the stone trough, as of the following night, had gratifiés themselves, by hundreds of cats in such a concert of mewings that they could not close the eye. They went at once to position it back and found peace. More recently, and twice, “the Stamp with the Cats” disappeared. It not found each time its place without it resulting from it, for one at least of its borrowers some unexplainable troubles, of the troubles of order malefic, hastened to ensure those which still believe in the mysterious capacity of certain stones

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Two-Sevres

External bonds

the Vault-Saint-Laurent on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Vault-Saint-Laurent on the site of INSEE
the Vault-Saint-Laurent on the site of Quid
Localization of the Vault-Saint-Laurent on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of the Vault-Saint-Laurent on Mapquest

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