Étoges

Étoges is a commune with 395 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Marne, in the Champagne -Ardenne region.

The municipality is located between the towns of Epernay Étoges and Sézanne, about 80 kilometers east of Paris, in the growing area of Champagne. In the town are about 15 wineries.

History

Étoges (older forms of the name Estoges, Etauges, lat e ( s ) togis ), now a village of fewer than 300 inhabitants, was in the 14th century in the possession of Eustache III. de Conflans, Vogt the abbey of the Premonstratensian of Thérouane, hereditary marshal of Champagne and Conseiller du Roi ( 1323). When he died without descendants, Étoges came along with the Bailiwick in 1339 by the marriage of his sister Maguerite de Conflans with Ogre III. d' Anglure in the possession of the Counts of Anglure. The rule ( seigniory ) and since the 15th century vice- county ( vicomté ) of Estoges 1682 charged in favor of Marc- Antoine Saladin d' Anglure you Bellai de Savigny († 1688) to the county.

From the beginning of the 17th century, who also wrote the construction of the castle in which the newly collected Count from 1685 to 1688 in a passage to the castle chapel according to the designs of a neighboring lord of Flavigny by the painter Jean Hélart from Reims a highly complex image program was run. In it on the walls of their own family genealogies and related noble families were mapped with their emblems, but about 71 portraits of well-known people of French history, from Clovis to Louis XIV (later supplemented by a portrait of Louis XV. ), According to virtues and character traits with people from other countries and eras, including the ancient and biblical history, grouped together and attached emblems and currencies characterized.

After the extinction of the House of Anglure Étoges was sold at the beginning of the 18th century to the Duke of Boufflers, who kept it until at least 1730 in his possession. In the 18th century, the owners changed mostly in quick succession. In 1803 it was bought by the Comte François de Scholastique Guéhéneuc by which it. Written for his daughter Louise -Antoinette married in second marriage to the Marshal Jean Lannes, and their sons and descendants came

In February 1814, the area in Étoges and Vauchamps on the retreat of the Silesian army of Blucher at the Marne to the scene of their loss-making breakthrough against the troops of Napoleon, who was holding the strategically important defensive position in Étoges of Marshal Marmont was.

Partnerships

Since 1973, a partnership with Ettlinger district Oberweier.

Attractions

• The Étoges castle from the early 17th century, a rectangular system with two main wings and four round corner towers, surrounded by a rectangular moat and a park.
• The Saints- Sulpice -et -Antonin remaining stock from the 12th century, the floor plan of a Latin cross with side aisles and pentagonal apse. The portal is in Renaissance style, over a rosette of the 13th century.