Vourles
Vourles is a common French, located in the department of the the Rhone and the area the Rhone-Alps.
Its inhabitants are called Vourlois.
Geography
Vourles is a commune of the Western Southern suburbs of
Lyon.
Common neighbors
History
Set up in commune at the end of the 18th century. Old
Stronghold S of the “Strong House” and Epeisses, property of the Relative family. In
1831, Louis Querbes,
Cleaned of Vourles (
1793 -
1859), founded the Congrégation Clercs of Saint-Viateur.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
- painted fabrics of the town hall
the room of the marriages presents a collection of mural fabrics, painted in softening by Coypel, on the topic of Don Quichotte. One can admire 41 m ² decorations representing of the funny scenes of the work of Cervantès. Classified fabrics historic building.
the frescos of Strong House, located in the Northern tower, were restored in 2003. They represent various allegorical and mythological figures. The room will be opened with the public at the time of the European Journées of the inheritance, on September 19th, 2004 then on go.
In the room of the marriages, one can admire the fabrics painted of 18th, classified. (26, rue Bertrange)
It was the house of the fields of several Lyons aldermen. Communal property since 1996. (2, rue des Vallières)
wine Field pertaining to the 17th century with the Croppet family. From 1678 with the revolution of 1789, property of the Fathers Jacobins about Holy Dominique.
(8, rue Grande Charrière)
the Father Querbes installed its first noviciate in 1838 there. The museum recalls the life of the founder of the Clercs of Saint-Viateur. (3, rue Louis Querbes)
Builds as from 1860, by the congregation of Clercs of Saint-Viateur, rested by the Father Louis Querbes, cleaned in Vourles.
Girard Desargues, founder of the projective geometry accepted in its house of the fields some of the great minds of its time, in particular Pascal and Descartes.
Its stained glasses of Baron, Mauvernay and Dufêtre, its large organ with twelve real plays and the statue of the virgin allotted to the sculptor Fabich are remarkable. (Place of Resistance)
Old strong house dating from the 11th century. One of its owners was Jacques Faye, president of the Parlement of Paris under Henri III.
It was set up by the inhabitants of Vourles on April 10th, 1994. (Street Louis Vernay)
Fresco inaugurated in 2006. Located beside the church Saint-Bonnet.
Personalities related to the commune
Large mathematician French of the XVII E century, it will pose the bases of the projective Géométrie. Friend of some Descartes, it also had Blaise Pascal like disciple. To advise Richelieu, this genious geometrician is also musician and architect (he is the author of famous the large staircase of the Town hall of Lyon). Owner of the “field of the Rock”, in Vourles, it receives there the great minds of his time and works there far from Lyons and Parisian agitation.
Painter landscape designer and animalist of the Lyons School, it resided at Vourles of 1830 to 1850. At the time of its stays in its country house (the current Lestra property), it engraved, drew and paints landscapes of our village and its surroundings. Its works appear in the Palais Saint-Pierre, with the Historical Museum of Lyon, with the Museum Napoleon of Arenenberg (Germany) like in the room University (the Philadelphia-USA)
Cleaned parish of Vourles during 37 years, it founded the Clercs of Saint-Viateur in 1831, religious congregation in charge with the teaching and the education of the young people (catechesis and liturgy). It counts a thousand of members divided into 13 country; its head office is with Rome.
Twinning
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