Argentières

Argentières is a common French, located in the department of Seine-et-Marne and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Bankers.

Geography

Cours d' water: the Yerres.

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are: .

History

Origins of Argentières

Its first name “ARGENTERIAE” leaves suppose that the Romans would have worked a money mine there or that there would have been an industry containing this metal.

Until the revolution, the village depended on the seigniory of the Abbey of Saint German of the Meadows and attached to the Abbey of Thatches in Brie.

The inhabitants of Argentières were the first serfs freed by the Abbey from thatches in 1205. The villagers passed to be independent and described like “proud and high”.

It should be noted in this idea that the commune of Argentières is only canton and surroundings not to have farms with the hands of the barons, counts, or marquis… survival of the old mode.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

The church Good Saint

The church of Argentières was built at the 15th century and was rebuilt at the 18th century. It is composed only of only one nave and does not have a transept. Its owner is Saint Bonnet (or Holy Good), his festival is on January 15th. In its center, four statues representing: “Holy Good”, “Holy Jacques”, “Holy Vincent” and “the Virgin and the child”. The bell, after being cracked, was changed with the financial support of the family Nicolas (descendants being current holders of the Nicolas wines!), owner at the time of the castle of Arcy. In thanks, their name was engraved above. She was bénite on September 2nd, 1855. A stoup in the scallop shape, would attest situation of the village near the ways of Compostelle and of the passage of the pilgrims. In the chorus is a classified tombstone historic building in 1907 and measuring 2 m 22 length for 1 m 10 broad. It would represent Guillaume de Troyes, rider, lord of Montcouvent died in 1517; and a woman capped with the mode of Anne of Brittany, with its feet its deceased little girl (according to the more or less visible inscription of the flagstone). The building has a beam with the ceiling, perhaps going back to 1460, carved at each end of a fantastic animal (crocodile, monster or griffon) which was also reproduced on the blazon of Guillaume de Troyes. Such a beam is called “engoulant or ragor”.

Economy

Famous characters
Tourist monuments and places

The castle of Montcouvent

In Argentières, there existed the “Castle of Montcouvent”, become country house. With time, there remained only one pigeon in 1823, in 1889, remained only one firm, and nowadays some sections of wall in ruins, to the place says “Montcouvent”, with the variation of the village in a way which borders Yerres. The last lord of Montcouvent having remained was there Jean-François de Soisson (1664 - 1726). From 1756 to 1774, one finds a certain Louis Martin of the Fountains, adviser of king (Louis XV), listener in his room of the accounts and Seigneur of Arcy and Montcouvent d' Argentières. According to the legend, 22 undergrounds would start from these ruins to arrive directly within the church of Argentières; in the funerary crypt of the lords of Montcouvent who were exhumed in the chorus of the church Saint-Good. This burial would have been violated during terror. Others think that these undergrounds would lead to the various castles of the sector (Beauvoir, Arcy…). He also says himself that in the years 1980, somebody would have discovered one of these famous undergrounds (container helmets, rifles and other armours), leading directly to the furnace bridge of the church.

Events

Twinnings

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