Villars is a common French, located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy.
Geography
Villars, village of 235 inhabitants, profits from an exceptional situation. Established over the only rock headland of Right Bank of the Saone before the accesses of Lyon, it dominates the country of Bresse and offers to the east a sight largely open on the mounts of the Jura, the Alps of North and Mont Blanc. In the immediate vicinity of Tournus (3 km in the south), it is easily accessible by main road 6 or the edges from the Saone.
This privileged situation allowed the installation of the man as of prehistory, as the important station discovered with the locality " testifies some; Evasas" then, much later, establishment of the Romans who baptized the place Villare or Villarium
History
Sit of a priory of bénédictines depend on the abbey of Tournus.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
Dominated by the admirable volume of its bell-tower, the church Sainte Marie Madeleine dates from the Romance time (XIe and XIIe century). It is particularly original and rare since made up of two vessels. One of the naves, in north, is the parish church; the other in the south, was the church of the moniales bénédictines. Only one and vast roof recover all two vault. The recent restoration of the parish church made it possible to discover on the vault in bottom of furnace of the apse a Christ in majesty of a style very close to that of Berzé-the-City, close to Mâcon. The gates are also interesting, in particular that of the north which is preceded by a narthex.
Personalities related to the commune
Outside the northern wall of the town hall, plates were affixed in the honor of the famous men who were born or lived in this village: Alfred Cortot (1877-1962), one of the large French pianists of the XXe century, whose fame was world. Close Gabriel (1880-1973), pioneer of aviation and the car whose productions were and remain famous. Wished Mathivet (1887-1966), sculptor, was pupil of Rodin and friend of Picasso. All three rest in the cemetery of Villars. Edgar Varèse (1883-1965), cousin of Alfred Cortot, will become a type-setter demanding and famous for his talent of " liberator of the sons".
It is finally in this village that Anatole France locates an episode of its novel " The Grill room of the Pédauque" Queen; and what lived and died the general Debrun hero of Valmy to the head of the volunteers of the Saone and the Loire.
See too
- Common of Saône-et-Loire
External bonds
- Villars on the site of the National Geographical Institute
- Villars on the site of INSEE
- Villars on the site of Quid
- Localization of Villars on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Villars on Mapquest
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