Vendeuvre-sur-Barse
Vendeuvre- sur -Barse is a commune with 2398 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Champagne-Ardenne region in the department of Aube.
Geography
Vendeuvre is on the edge of the Paris Basin, 30 km east of Troyes at the source of Barse, a small right-hand tributary of the Seine. The village is located in the southeast of the embossed with large stretches of forest and numerous lakes and ponds Regional Natural Park of the Orient Forest (French: Parc naturel régional de la forêt d' Orient ). The municipality has a station on the railway line Paris -Mulhouse, which of TER Champagne- Ardenne and Intercités is operated trains.
History
The name of the place is not clearly clarified in meaning probably Gallic origin. He is already occupied by coins from the Merovingian time. In the year 865 Pope Nicholas I took the place Vendopera in the kingdom of Charles the Bald under his protection. The fief was under the Lords of Troyes.
At the beginning of the 12th century a Rocelin de Vendeuvre advisor to the Count of Champagne Hilduin de Vendeuvre was was at the beginning of the 13th century dean and later Bishop of Langres.
By Miles X. de Noyers, Marshal of France, the divided rule was re-united in the 14th century. Towards the end of the 15th century, it was acquired by Charles II d' Amboise, after she was previously de Isabel Noyers to Dreu de Mello. About Charles niece Antoinette d' Amboise the place then went to her first husband, the Lord of Barbezieux, Seneschal of Guyenne and Admiral of France Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, and later their son Charles, who was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Government of the Cham pages. In the 17th century the rule then went over the heirs of Henri de Luxembourg to the Premier President of the Parliament of Provence Jean de Mesgrigny to be sold to Gabriel Pavée in the 18th century, whose descendants Pavée de Vendeuvre and Bourlon de Sarty today owner of the castle are.
In October 1848, the municipality adopted its present name. In the 19th and 20th centuries was in Vendeuvre a significant, established by the Parisian sculptor Léon Moynet fabrication of saints.
Demographics
In a very positive birth rate, the development of the population of the municipality was able to benefit especially at the beginning of the 1970s by a strong influx. Since the early 1980s, the site recorded by the excess of births over rising emigration a decline in population.
Culture and sights
The castle is a monument historique by Vendeuvre classified the most important secular building of the church. His oldest part of the tower dates from the 12th century. The present main building was built in the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as the ornate staircase in tuff. Worth seeing are the pigeon-house and the orangery.
Also protected as a monument historique the church of Saint -Pierre is from the 16th century. The church of the village Valsuzenay emerged in the 12th century and was restored in 1922.
Personalities
The French UMP politician Pierre Micaux was born in 1930 in Vendeuvre- sur -Barse. From 1965 to 1995 he was mayor of the municipality.