Foulayronnes

Foulayronnes is a common French, located in the department of Lot-et-Garonne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

History

Toponym

It is the fountain located close to the church Saint Martin in the Sharp Small valley (current Vallon of Vérone) which precedes the birth certificate. This source is known under the Latin term of " FONS LATRONUM" , i.e. " Fountain of Voleurs".

At the time of many the peregrination of Saint-Jacques-with-Compostelle, the small valley is a minor road allowing the Pèlerin S come from the north of France to join the principal way of Ténarèze. The fountain is then quoted like a " cut gorge" notorious. " large gangsters chemins" , many at the time, hide in the holes and cavities dug in the Tuf of the close Falaise and détroussent the pilgrims eager to rest while sealing their thirst with miraculous water for the source.

De Fons Latronum, deformations of the oral language will lead us little by little to the final name of Foulayronnes given to this corner of greenery. It is this last name which will prevail at the time of the birth certificate of the commune, following the example other hamlets surrounding the site.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Two restored windmills including one able to grind the grain
  • Castle X of Talives and Levelling course
  • Hospital of Monbran old residence of summer of the bishops of Agen
  • Church of Artigues (11th) of Caoulet (13/15e) of Monbran (12th) of Pauilhac (17th)
  • Cave S,
  • Tumulus of Talives

Personalities related to the commune

  • Family of Saint Exupéry (fall from the Cimetière of Paulhac) and Montesquieu having both inhabited the Château of Levelling course

  • Famille of Sevin to the Château of Talives always in their possession
  • Nostradamus and Jules César Scaliger resided at the Small valley of Vérone several tens of years.

See too

  • Common of Lot-et-Garonne

External bonds

  • Internet site of Foulayronnes
  • Foulayronnes on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Foulayronnes on the site of INSEE
  • Foulayronnes on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Foulayronnes on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Foulayronnes on Mapquest

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