Tournay

Tournay (to pronounce " Tournaï") is a common French, located in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its name in Occitan is Tornai .

Geography

The city is located on the course of the Arros.

History

The Tumulus of Ozon and Tournay testify to the time Protohistorique.

There is no reason to allot the name of Tournay to the Aquitanian people of the Tornates (of unknown localization), since it is about the “Nom transferred” from the Belgian city from Tournai.

The history of Tournay starts with the castle of Renso , Arrensou in bigourdan, stronghold of Baronnie whose sovereign was Bohémond d' Astarac.

It is Sunday of the Assumption of the year 1307 which the paréage of the Country house of Tournay was authorized between Bohémond d' Astarac and the seneshal of Toulouse, representative of the king of France Philippe IV Beautiful the, which needed a city strengthened in the vicinity of the Castle of Mauvezin to counter the influence of it. It gave him the name of the Belgian city of Tournai in commemoration of one of its victories and granted the population of the land privileges. It remains of this time the general plan of the city characterized by its streets in right angle, significant of the “new cities” of XIIIe century.

Tournay will be destroyed at the time of the wars of religion, and will be rebuilt with the current site.

In 1591 the tiny ones came to draw up there their tents for more than two hundred years. They formed there the convent of Tiny as well as the order begging with the site for the castle. Today, the site accommodates a ground of Rugby, a camp-site, a swimming pool, a tennis court and the village hall. The cemetery was created in 1632 following an epidemic of Peste.

After the Revolution of 1789, the city became chief town of a canton which comprised 18 communes then. It counts 27 today of them.

The abbey of the Benedictines was established in 1952 inside a loop of the Arros river, followed in 1955 by the abbey of Bénédictines to Ozon.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the abbey Notre Dame de Tournay with her workshops of pottery and the fruit pastes. The cloister, the church and a specialized bookstore are accessible to the visitors.
  • the house Francis James, on the place of Astarac, where the poet lived.
  • the arboretum, resulting from an old moor with ferns retimbered in 1958, point of disjunction today 200 gasolines of trees and shrubs indigenous like exotics. It is managed by the National office of the Forests on behalf of the community of the communes of the canton of Tournay. A booklet facilitating the visit is available to the Tourist bureau of Tournay.
    L' access to this arboretum is free, of the guided visits by a botanist can be organized on request.

Personalities related to the commune

  • the Doctor Jacques Lordat, (1773-1870), was born in Tournay in a family from surgeons and apothecaries, and will become the senior of the medical college of Montpellier.

  • Francis James was born in Tournay December 2nd 1868; it passed part of its childhood there before leaving to Hasparren to the Basque Country.

  • Adolphe Pédebidou, mayor and senator. It is at the origin of the Station of Tournay and died in an accident of train.

See too

External bonds

  • Tournay on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Tournay on the site of INSEE
  • Tournay on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Tournay on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Tournay on Mapquest
  • Site of the abbey of Tournay
  • Site of the village

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