Villeneuve-the-Maguelone - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Geography

Villeneuve - Maguelone is located in the plain of the Mosson, at the edge of the pond S and of the Mediterranean, and its territory includes/understands part of the solid mass of the Gardiole.

History

The island of Maguelone was, because of its position on a sandy cord easy to defend, between a Lagune and the Mer, the seat of a évêché and a prosperous city to the Moyen-âge. The current city was built at the same time on the continent.

Between 1816 and 1831, the commune was called Villeneuve-Angouleme .

Administration

|- | align=right| 1790-1791 || Vassas || || |- | align=right| 1791-1792|| Jean-François Lescure || || |- | align=right| 1792-1793 || Thomas Verdier || || |- | align=right| 1794-1794 || Claude Vassas || || |- | align=right| 1794-1799 || No the mayor || || |- | align=right| 1799-1801 || Jean Chrestien || || |- | align=right| 1801-1808 || Claude Vassas || || |- | align=right| 1808-1813 || Jean-François Lescure || || |- | align=right| 1813-1821 || Jacques-Philippe Crespin || || |- | align=right| 1821-1830 || Jules Bucket || || |- | align=right| 1830-1832 || Frederic Aldebert || || |- | align=right| 1832-1833 || Guillaume Trunk || || |- | align=right| 1833-1835 || Delorme spirit || || |- | align=right| 1835-1837 || Jean Bonjean || || |- | align=right| 1837-1846 || Jacques-Philippe Suquet || || |- | align=right| 1846-1848 || Delorme spirit || || |- | align=right| 1848-1848 || François-Xavier Vassas || || |- | align=right| 1848-1848 || Georges Courty || || provisional mayor in September 1848 |- | align=right| 1848-1851 || Antoine Jullian || || |- | align=right| 1851-1852 || Antoine Aluvain || || |- | align=right| 1852-1861 || Eugene Vincent || || |- | align=right| 1861-1862 || Jean-Timothée de Bonnevie de Pogniat || || |- | align=right| 1862-1870 || Jean Jullian || || |- | align=right| 1870-1871 || Xavier Vassas || || |- | align=right| 1871-1874 || Hilaire Isolphe || || |- | align=right| 1874-1876 || Frederic Naud || || |- | align=right| 1876-1877 || Jean Lamouroux || || |- | align=right| 1877-1877 || Guillaume Tinel || || |- | align=right| 1878-1884 || Jean Lamouroux || || |- | align=right| 1884-1888 || Masseran || || |- | align=right| 1888-1896 || Georges Courty || || |- | align=right| 1896-1901 || Pierre Casamayou || || |- | align=right| 1901-1919 || Marius Bouladou || || |- | align=right| 1919-1927 || Marius Catineau || || |- | align=right| 1927-1940 || Leonce Domergue || || |- | align=right| 1940-1944 || Lucien Farmhouse || || chair of the special Delegation |- | align=right| 1945-1965 || Pierre Verdier || || |- | align=right| 1965-1971 || Rene Poitevin || ||deceased during the second mandate 31.01.1972 |- | align=right| 1971-1977 || Rene Bert || || |- | align=right| 1977-1979 || Emile Malafosse || || |- | align=right| 1979- (in progress) || Gerald Bush || PCF || general adviser of the Canton of Frontignan |- |}

Demography

Places and monuments

In the city

medieval Church Etienne saint, dating from the 12th century.

Around the city

Prison of Montpellier. Made famous for the stay of the country trade unionist Jose Bove.
Mountain of the Madeleine: Scrubland, army ground, ruin of the Saint-Baudille vault at the top (185 Mr. of altitude), and stele commemorating the Resistant S shot during the Second world war.
Natural reserve of Estagnol, a fresh water pond and Marsh between Scrubland and vine.

On the littoral

Old Cathedral Saint-Pierre-and-Saint-Paul de Maguelone. The insular position with the Middle Ages ensured the safety of the bishop.
public Plage where the Nudisme is tolerated on part of the littoral but remains prohibited by local by-law. The dune cord extends on a dozen from kilometers since Palavas-the-Floods until Frontignan - Beach, between sea and ponds. It is accessible conveys some by three deads end only. It is because of this insulation that the Nudisme is not object of debate.
Ponds: fishing, observation of the Bird X.
Channel of the Rhone with Sète: maintained, it allows river tourism between the the Rhone, the pond of Thau and the Canal of the South.

Personalities related to the commune

Pierre Maguelon Acteur born in Villeneuve Maguelone
Rene Poitevin Compagnon of the Release, mayor of Villeneuve Maguelone
One of its sons Henri Louis Sylvain Poitevin was decorated with the Military Cross 1939-1945 at the 14 years age for act of war carried out at the 11 years age what does of them one of the youngest resistant French of the Second world war.

Under the orders of Rene Poitevin, Pierre Bouissinet, (born in 1925) was a young patriot who served resistance like liaison officer. It took part in many sabotages, with the team Bouries, Brosse and Pierrot. Stopped at the station of Villeneuve Maguelone to the return of a mission of sabotage on August 17th, 1944, he is shot by the Germans the same day. And since, a school bears its name and every year, at the same date, a sheaf of flower is posed in front of the school.

It obtained the Military decoration and the Military Cross 39/45 with palm on a purely posthumous basis. A school complex of the village bears its name.

See too

Common of Herault

External bonds

Official site
Villeneuve Press correspondent Maguelone
List of the successive mayors
Achievements of the mayors of 1905 to 2005

Source data

Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on the site of the national geographical Institute
Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on the site of INSEE
Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on the site of the Ministry for Finances
Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on the site of Quid
Localization of Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Villeneuve-the-Maguelone on Mapquest

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