Vivières is a common French, located in the department of the Aisne and the area Picardy.

Geography

History

Made excavations, a few years ago, to draw the stones necessary to maintenance from the roads, put by up to date chance at the top of the road of the Ridge and on the two slopes, of the tiles with edge and the curved tiles (imbrices and tegula), of the Roman bronze currencies in great quantity (28 kg) of the emperors Maximus, Tétricus, Posthumus and others; ustensils, vases, remains of potteries of all kinds and foundations of a certain number of dwellings. Two grinding stones of mills with arm, mola manuaria or trusatilis, were collected since. They are irrecusable witnesses there proving the stay of the Romans. These foundations extend over a 500 meters length. One sees tiles close to the hillock called Tour Réaumont and all along the road of the Ridge until near the Cross-Morel. This agglomeration of inhabitants preserved the name of Houssoye and it is undoubtedly this name which one gave him in the beginning. Several inhabitants of Houssoye having found, in the vicinity, a pond in which abounded the fish (what is called commonly a fish pond), they built auprès their houses. These were initially some scattered thatched cottages that one indicated under the name of Vivarium, the Fish pond. The Fish pond was a dependence of the colony of Houssoye. Later, during the franque invasion, the inhabitants of the colony being more in safety on the height and fearing the approaches of the winners - or perhaps pushed back by them - went to enlarge the hamlet of the Fish pond.

The lord of the place, satisfied with this addition of population and wanting to increase the number further of it, made build a castle-extremely to protect his serfs and his vasseaux. One does not know in which place rose this castle, nor which was the importance. It is known only that there existed well before the ixe century. At that time, one spoke only about the Norman ones; they began their incursions devastators and their names alone terrified the peasants. The ground of the Fish pond depended on the field of Ferté-on-Ourcq (Ferté-Milon). In 845, Hémogalde, lord of this country, made some repair and increase the fortifications to take cover from barbarians. For a long time, the governors of Ferté were also lords lords of the manor (Dominus) of Vivières. Only the names of two of these lords arrived to us. One named Hugues the White; it took the title of lord of the manor of Ferté-Milon and Vivières and died after 1121. The other was Hugues Soibers de Laon, who lived in 1250. They were in charge of the defense of the fort, resided at it and had the command of it.

Vivières became an important village, so much because of the fort and the religious establishments which were based there in the continuation, that relics of Holy ClotildeH which always attracted a great number of pilgrims. A particular provost resided at it and it extended its jurisdiction on the small towns of surrounding: Villers-Saint-Georges (Villers-Cotterêts), Pisseleux, the stronghold of Valley, Dampleux, etc In 1126, Hugues the White establishes the prémontrés monks with Vivières.

(Extracts of the History of Villers-Cotterêts. The city, the castle, the forest and surroundings, of Alexandre Michaux, 1867)

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

• Firm of the Spine (XIIIe century, private property): Firm concerning the prémontrée abbey of Valsery, mentioned for the 1st time in 1229. Buildings are built in XIIIe or XIVe century (of the arched cellars remain under the current home). It is destroyed by Huguenots about 1592, then rebuilt between 1680 and 1683 (dating by files). Several agricultural buildings are rebuilt or modified at the XIXe century after 1835 or the XXe century: modification of the northern wing which carries the date of 1889, of the wing is and the southern wing. Construction of the southern hangar, increase in home and extension of firm towards the east (source: base Mérimée)

• Castle of Mazancourt (XVIe century, private property): Building of XVIe century completely remade with XVIIe, except for a preserved turret. Dovecote built in 1721. Handing-over and barns would go back to 1794. The northern wing of the agricultural buildings and a residence in the east of the castle would have been destroyed after 1835. At the beginning of the XXe century, the owners, whose Henri Battles, make modifications: construction in the park of a cattle shed in the shape of hut, intended for spangled, and a factory of consistent garden in 28 Tuscan brick columns masked by coatings. From 1930 to 1960, the castle is used like farm. With belonged to the family of Mazancourt until the Revolution or it was sold like national good. (source: base Mérimée)

• Parish church Holy-Clotilde, of the Assumption (XVIe century): Church built in XIIe century; there remains about it the base of the bell-tower which is used as sacristy; it is transformed in XVIe century; in 1st half of the XIXe century, its interior is completely restored and the windows are increased; it then receives a new frontage and a traditional gantry néo; it carries recently the term of the Assumption (source: base Mérimée)

Personalities related to the commune

See too

• Common of Aisne

External bonds

• Vivières on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Vivières on the site of INSEE
• Vivières on the site of Quid
• Localization of Vivières on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Vivières on Mapquest

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