Valbonnais

Valbonnais is a common French, located in the department of the Isere and the area the Rhone-Alps. Valbonnais draws its name from the river Bonne of which it constitutes the valley.

The inhabitants of Valbonnais are called the Valbonnetins . The inhabitants of certain hamlets have a particular name (Engelas: Engelaurous, the Rock: Rouchaïrous, Verneys: Vernusaux, Péchal: Pécharaux). Valbonnais draws its name from its principal valley sprinkled by the Good one: Vallis bonnesii , valley of the Bonnesium (Gallo-Roman name).

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The magic square: it is mentioned at the time modern and made run much ink whereas it is about an object finally rather ordinary. It was engraved on a stone near a legal building and was used as element amulet certainly aiming at protecting the place from the fires as that frequently arrived. On the stone one can read

R O T WITH S O P E R WITH T E NR E T WITH R E P O S.A.T O R

A Latin formula without true range initially but which was finally a sign of recognition of the Christians during Antiquity in particular in IIIè century for the periods when they were pursued. This formula traversed times losing its significance first but keeping a real importance

Personalities related to the commune

Jacques Champollion: born in 1744 with the hamlet of the Rock, father of Jean-François Champollion and Jacques-Joseph Champollion. It left Valbonnais in 1770 to be fixed at Figeac or it Maria in 1773 and worked in the bookstore of his father-in-law, Mr. Gallieu.

Jean-Pierre Moret de Bourchenu: marquis de Valbonnais, magistrate from the Dauphine, president of the Room of the Accounts, historian

To read

Committee of the French memory, From August 9th to 15th 1944, One week of the life in the valley of Valbonnais under the German occupation , Seyssinet-Pariset, Printers Joined together, 2004
Marcelle Péry, In the shade of the mountain , Editions of Ubac, 2006, ISBN 2952649707

See too

Common of Isere
the Good river

External bonds

Valbonnais on the site of the national geographical Institute
Valbonnais on the site of INSEE
Valbonnais on the site of Quid
Localization of Valbonnais on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane of Valbonnais on Mapquest
War memorial on Valbonnais
the combat of the Bridge of the Priest, August 9th, 1944
Any knowledge on Valbonnais - a Little Common history
of Valbonnais, Park of the Jewel cases
the magic square engraved on a cranium of man

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