Chalard

Chalard ( Lu Chaslar in Occitan) is a common French located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.

Geography

It is a village located at the extreme south of the High-Vienna. The village developed on a rocky outcrop above the throats of the Isle.

History

A tradition wants that Roger, Viscount of Limoges, founded into 801 a first monastery in this place and that this one was destroyed by the Norman ones at the time of their incursion in the Limousin, in 846. About the year millet, its descendants draw up on this natural shoulder a tower called in Romance language “castellare” which was transformed into Chalard.

In 1088, a priest with his two companions came to be installed on the ruins of the old monastery. Name of Geoffroy it would have been born close to the village to Noth, in the east of the Underground one. It made rather thorough studies with Tours, and then taught in Limoges. On the councils of a commercial rich person in whom it placed, Pierre Brun, it was made order priest in Périgueux about 1087. At the time of its voyage of ordination, he had noticed the forest of Courbefy which he crossed; it is on its return that it made the decision of living as a hermit. In 1100, Geoffroy built a small church dedicated to the Virgin thanks to subsidies of an archdeacon of Limoges, Pierre Bruchard, it is the bishop of Périgueux Renaud de Thiviers which devoted the building. The prelate advised with the hermit to create a community of canons obeying the rule of Augustin saint. Geoffroy died in 1125 and was buried in the abbey one close to his old oratory; a few years later, his/her large friend, Gouffier de Lastours, hero of the first crusade was buried in the chapter house.

The priory undergoes devastations at the time of the One hundred Year old war. In 1419, certain Beauchamp with the head of an armed band is cut off in the priory. An army carried out by the lords of the vicinity dislodges on April 14th, 1421 of it; but the priory is in sorry state, the nave of abbey having been completely destroyed. At the end of the XVIIe century, the last canons left the abbey which was sold like national good with the Revolution.

Administration

Demography

Equipment or Services

Education

August 1st

Sports

Health

August 1st

Places and monuments

abbey Notre-Dame (XIIe century): original church remains only the transept and the chorus, the nave having been destroyed during the One hundred Year old war. Of Romanesque architecture, it preserves some carved capitals; the church shelters shelters the tomb of Geoffroi saint covered by a dresser out of Gothic wooden of style.
vestiges of the abbey: private property, it is accessible at the time of the European Journées from the inheritance and also at the time of the festival of music and musical theater, the Estival ones of Chalard of 1st at August 14th. The chapter house of it is the most beautiful part, it contains several tombs of which that of Gouffier de Lastours.
the cemetery of the monks: with the foot of the bedside of abbey, has a presentiment of Romance tomb stones and Gothics which recovered the tombs of the monks.
the house of the English (XIIIe century): only old residence of the village not having undergone any major transformation, it preserved splendid Gothic bays.
the medieval bridge (XIVe century): with the foot of the rocky outcrop on which the abbey rises, a medieval bridge spans Isle near the ruins of the castle of the Viscounts of Limoges.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean-Baptiste Holding of Latour, bibliographer.
Philippe Holding of the Tower, resistant, old of brigade RAC.
Marcel Bonnaud, actor, then director, director of the center of Cultural activity of Mâcon then twenty four years, in the Center Georges Pompidou in particular as director of the Demonstrations and the Spectacles and police chief of many exposures of which " The tercentenary one of died of Molière " in 1973, with the museum of Decorative Arts to Paris, " Reforming Vauban " , in 1982, with the museum of the French Monuments, as well as retrospectives Jean Messagier and Mario Prassinos with the Large palace. It is, since 2005, the spokesperson of the permanent guest of ESTIVAL of Chalard, " the White Lady " , and the costume of storyteller and actor for the musical tales of the program endorses: Pierre and the Wolf and History of Babar…

See too

Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

Chalard on the site of the national geographical Institute
Chalard on the site of INSEE
Chalard on the site of Quid
Localization of Chalard on a chart of France and communes bordering
Estival on Plane Chalard
of Chalard on Mapquest

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