Valleraugue

Valleraugue is a common French, located in the department of the Gard and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.

Geography

Valleraugue is a commune of the the Cevennes gardoises on the Herault. It is on the territory of the commune that the observatory of the Mont Aigoual is established, second solid mass of the Cevennes and culminating point of the Gard.

History

  • Extracts from the Topography of the Département of Gard, edition of 1868, by Eugene Germinate-Durand

  • Castrum de Valarauga , in diocesi Nemausensi, 1225, (Thin layer of the treasure of the charters volume II)

  • Vallis-Araugia , 1228, (chapter of Nimes, departmental records)

  • Vallarauga , 1247, (chapter of Nimes, departmental records)

  • Ecclesia de Varalauga , 1249, (cartulaire of Notre-Dame de Bonheur, chapter 20)

  • S. of Baralauge , 1262, (paper of the family of Alzon)

  • Ecclesia Vallis-Eraugo , 1265, (cartulaire of Notre-Dame de Bonheur, chapter 47)

  • Valarauga , 1309, (cartulaire of Notre-Dame de Bonheur, chapter 73)

  • Locus de Valle-Araugia , 1314, (War of Flanders, municipal files of Nimes)

  • Bajulia Vallis-Eraugie , 1314, (War of Flanders, municipal files of Nimes)

  • Vallis Arauria , 1314, (War of Flanders, files municipal of Nimes)

  • Vallis-Araugia , 1384, (enumeration of the seneschalsy)

  • Valerauge , 1435, (distribution of the subsidy of Charles VII)

  • Sanctus-Martinus Vallis-Heraugio , 1461, (register copies letters royal E, IV, folio 16)

  • Valleraugue , viguery of Vigan, 1582, (Tar. univ. diocese of Nimes)

  • the priory Saint Martin's day de Vallerauge , 1610, (ecclesiastical insinuation of the diocese of Nimes)

  • the castle of Valleraugue , 1634, (departmental records C 436)

  • Valleraugue belonged to the viguery of Vigan and the diocese of Nimes (later from Went) (Alès), archpriest of Sumène.

  • One counted 7 fires in there 1384 and 572 in 1789.

  • At the beginning of the 13th century, Valleraugue belonged to the Maison of Roquefeuil; it formed then part of the baronnie of Meyrueis, and was definitively joined together with the crown only towards 1780.

  • Valleraugue became, in 1790, the place chief of a canton district of Vigan which included/understood only three communes: Rouvière, Saint-Andre-with-Majencoules and Valleraugue.

  • the armorial bearings of Valleraugue are: mouths, with a gold cross.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Gard

External bonds

  • Valleraugue on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Valleraugue on the site of INSEE
  • Valleraugue on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Valleraugue on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Valleraugue on Mapquest
  • Nemausensis - Notre Dame de Bonheur of Henri Teissier of the Cross-country race, 1934

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