Saint-Agrève

Saint- Agrève is a French town with 2546 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in Ardèche, in the Rhône -Alpes. It belongs to the municipality of Communauté de Communes du Haut Association Vivarais.

Geography

Saint- Agrève is up to the department roads D120 and D9. The rivers Eyrieux and Sumene ( a tributary of the Dordogne) flowing through the municipality. The town is the gateway to the Regional Natural Park of Monts d' Ardèche ( Parc naturel régional des Monts d' Ardèche).

History

In Gallo -Roman times was a fort on the then Mont Ursin, Mountain of the bear, built -mentioned mountain. The fort was named Cinnacum, settlement of Cinna. Over time, the name was to Chinacum and the mountain now called Mont Chiniac.

In the 7th century a bishop of Puy -en- Velay called Agrève tried to Christianize the area around the former Chinacum. He founded a parish in Chinacum and died there on February 1, 602 to his memory was Chinacum in Sanctus Agrippa, Saint- Agrève renamed. He was buried in Saint- Agrève, but his remains were brought to Puy -en- Velay later.

Inhabitants of the place were (besides those from many other spots) from 1941 to 1944 to the supporters of the Jewish rescue actions to the couple Trocmé with the main town of Le Chambon- sur -Lignon that the whole plateau Vivarais -Lignon mainly involved, ie in the today classification parts of the Haute -Loire and Ardèche on the eastern edge on the western edge.

Economy and infrastructure

The image of the city is dominated by fields, meadows and woods. The main activities of the Saint- Agrèvois are agriculture and the breeding of domestic animals of bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals. Other local products include the picodon.

In Saint- Agrève there is a kindergarten, a primary school, the Catholic private school Saint -Joseph and secondary school Louis Jouvet.

Personalities

• Sandrine Soubeyrand (born 1973 ), French record national football