Mussidan

Mussidan ( Occitan: Moissida ) is a commune in the French region of Aquitaine with 2878 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011). It is located in the Dordogne. The municipality is the capital of the canton Mussidan.

Geography

The municipality is located in Périgord Blanc (White Périgord ) on the left bank of the Isle, where the Crempse empties into the river.

With an area of ​​less than four square kilometers, it is one of the smallest municipalities of the department.

District ( district )

In the center:

  • Quartier de la Halle
  • Quartier de la Gare

On the outskirts:

  • Quartier Seguinou
  • Quartier Beaupuy
  • Quartier La Clède
  • Quartier La Freunie

History

The town is first mentioned in the essays of Montaigne in 1569. On the Cassini map that was created under the first accurate measuring of France in the years 1756-1789, we find the spelling Mucidan. A first wooden bridge that crosses the Isle, is documented in 1840.

On June 11, 1944 füsilierte a squad of SS 52 people in Mussidan in retaliation for an attempted sabotage of the railway through the Resistance, including Raoul Grassin, mayor of the city. Was involved in the massacre, also known as " SS Mohamed ," a brigade of North Africa -born, collaborating with the German occupiers French under the leadership of Alexandre Villa Plane.

In the 1950s Mussidan was an important industrial center in the Dordogne. After a period of crisis Mussidan is now experiencing a boom thanks to the Autoroute A89, whose exit is located three miles south of downtown.

Attractions

  • Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires du Périgord du Docteur Voulgre (Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of Perigord ). The museum dates back to the legacy of Dr. André Voulgre for his hometown Mussidan. The doctor moved to Bordeaux, where he founded an Institute of Physiotherapy and Physical Education. He remained quite Périgord connected and collected all his life in his father's house in Mussidan. His collection is reminiscent of the past and the development of the society of the Périgord through literature, art, daily life, development of technology, etc. On the eve of his death in 1971 he bequeathed his " Chartreuse " and his collections of his hometown, under the condition that all received the name " Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires du Périgord du Docteur Voulgre ". The city took the donation and an association of " Friends of the Museum " was created in 1973 to continue to foster the work of Dr. Voulgre and enrich.
  • Neo-Romanesque church of Saint George from the 19th century, built by the architect Abadie.
  • Old church of Notre- Dame du Roc, 16th to 17th century. Converted to a cinema.

The Crempse

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nicolas Beaupuy (1750-1802), military and politicians
  • Michel de Beaupuy (* 1757), general of the French Revolution
  • Guillaume- Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850), priest and founder of the Order, students, and later professor of the Collège de Mussidan 1771-1791
  • Made Delbrêl (1904-1964), writer and Catholic mystic
  • Antoine Duranthon (* 1736), French Minister
  • Louis Philippe Maine (1830-1893), Military
  • John Misaubin ( 1673 ), physicians of the 18th century
  • Isaac Schneersohn (1879 or 1881-1969 ), founder of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine ( CDJC )
  • Émile Bazillou, Resistance fighters, murdered by Nazis

Twin Cities

  • Woodbridge ( Suffolk ), East Anglia, in England ( since 1973)
  • Sainte -Anne in Martinique (since 1988)
  • Vigy, Lorraine (since 1991)
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