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

Geography

Village located between the communes of Laigny, Fountain-the-Vervins, Saint-Pierre-the-Franqueville, Lemma and the Valley-with-Corn.

Voulpaix is built on two slopes separated by a narrow valley crossed by a river called Beaurepaire which take its source with Laigny, with the locality of the same name, and which receives in Voulpaix a ruissau the Narrow part spouting out in a wood, the wood from Reculée .

History

Voulpaix was called in 1065 “ Altare ” (furnace bridge, or altitude), “ Vulpasio ” in 1130 then “ Vulpasium ” and “ Vulpasio ”. All leaves believe that this toponym is a derivative of the Latin word “vulpéculus” indicating the fox. The French name of the fox was formerly goupil . Only of naturalness in this denomination, Voulpaix was in the middle of wood, where formerly the foxes were numerous. Voulpaix during the Moyen-âge had its own lords until in 1438, date on which it returns in the possession of the lords of Vervins until the French revolution. Voulpaix was then set up in commune with a hamlet which was called “the Valley with the Villages”. The July 15th 1829, this hamlet was transformed into commune and took later (in 1961) the name of the Valley-with-Corn. According to the established cadastre the September 5th 1919, the surface of the commune is of 1113 ha 38 has 33 Ca, it results that 172 ha 38 have 40 Ca would have been inattentive with the profit of the Valley-with-Corn during its erection in commune.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

• Romance Church: Church Saint Quentin where there is a relic of the saint.
• Vestige of the castle of the mound of Voulpaix where its lords lived.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

• Common of Aisne
• Canton of Vervins
• the Community of communes of Thiérache of the Center
• District of Vervins
• Aisne
• Picardy
• France

External bonds

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

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