Grangermont

Grangermont is a common French, located in the department of the Loiret and the area Center.

Geography

The commune of Grangermont, whose altitude is of 125 meters is located at the North-East of the Département of Loiret.

Historical general information

Its name of franque origin means, " the barn belonging to Hermand".

The village was governed by the habit of Lorris.

It concerned the bailliage of Yèvre-le-Châtel.

Church

The Saint-Georges church of Romance origin, was restored at the 19th century.

Resources and productions

The farmers of Grangermont cultivate cereals, beets sugar and potatoes

Name of the inhabitants

" Godets" who, at the beginning of last century, fought against the " Grenouillats" , inhabitants of the Ondreville-on-Essonne, the very close commune where the river runs peacefully.

A little story which proceeded in Grangermont

In the Fifties, an inhabitant of Grangermont, rather old and unmarried, had decided to put an end to his days. It had ordered a Cercueil with its size with the Menuisier of a close commune and had gone itself from there to seek it with its Brouette, accompanied by the Rural policeman.

The coffin deposited with the foot of the cord with which he wanted to hang himself, he went to the bar of the village where he had given go to all those which would go to its burial.

It, in addition, had already regulated its expenses of funeral.

The Fireman S of the village, acting as Undertaking at this time, as well as the Mason and digger of tomb of the village, Henri Joseph, had been paid for their service.

At the time, one of only the Téléphone S of the commune was at the disposal of the inhabitants, with the Café.

The mayor, Gaston April, tried to telephone the Préfet of Loiret, to know how it could prevent this suicide.

While our hung future clinked glasses with its fellow-citizens, he heard the conversation of the municipal official and eclipsed discreetly to go to hang itself, before the mayor does not prevent it.

He hung himself without being himself shaven.

The coffin was under the cord, and the beer setting was facilitated by it.

The Sappers Firemen

Grangermont, like all the common neighbors, had a small company of sappers volunteer firemen, equipped with an adequate motor-driven pump and pipes.

The July 14th and November 11th, they levelled their fellow-citizens of a procession which made the turn of the village.

Formerly, it was with the sound of the drum and the bugles that were held these processions.

The firemen musicians were brought together in this one calls one clicks.

July 13rd at the evening, the children of the village lit the candles of their torches and followed joyeusement clicks it firemen in all the streets, according to an immutable course.

Kids rascals had broken their moneybox to buy detonators in the grocer, and made fear with the Boêles by making them burst close to them.

The martial repertory of clicks included/understood only a few purple passages, of which ignored the " Did you see the cap of the Bugeaud" father;? that they entonnaient at the exit of the burial of an honorary member of their company.

The company of sappers firemen of Grangermont had honorary members, who adhered to it by buying the annual calendar.

To become honorary member firemen gave to the late future the privilege to be buried in large pump by the sappers in large uniform.

A hearse with arm, drawn by the firemen, took along the late ones to their last residence, and it was at the exit of the cemetery that clicks it entonnait the cap of the Bugeaud father then.

The firemen involve themselves to unroll the pipes once a month.

Every year, the firemen met to celebrate Sainte BEARD, their owner.

This sympathetic nerve meal of festival was to begin, formerly, by a calf's head vinaigrette.

The sappers firemen organized also an annual voyage, which, it there has a few years, led them to Quebec.

There is no more from now on of company of sappers volunteer firemen in Grangermont.

They had never had of fire to face, but their company had been, of the decades during, the example of community life in a village of two hundred inhabitants.

July 14th

The republican festivities begin the 13 at the evening, by a torchlight procession.

The children of the village light their lampions and follow clicks it firemen through the streets of the village.

The 14 at the beginning of afternoon, a new procession of the firemen bring the villagers on the place, where tables and benches are drawn up.

The firemen also installed a stand of " chamboule tout".

The incomes of this play will go in the cases of their company, for the meal of Holy Beard or the annual voyage.

On a small close place, an impromptu shooting range will make it possible all to measure itself with the shooting with the rifle, on a target laid out with a few meters.

The city council men organize also plays for the children of the schools, which can go from the contest of crossed words to a sack race endiablée.

The children and their parents being measured in these friendly tournaments, comes the hour from tasting.

There are some thirty or forty years, to taste it consisted of a share of " rondieau" , a peppered wafer of which more no baker makes batch.

This rondo was cooked only for the July 14th.

A red wine barrel was put in borer, and soon, the singers and other storytellers could déclamer which them song, which them poem.

Grangermont had as wire a poet, of which notoriety forever exceeded the limits of the canton.

Eugene Montigny, known as " Gégène" , was a " old man gars" , guard of biquettes, which teased the MUSE with an unquestionable talent.

The titles of its poems are perhaps now forgotten, unless some could record them on the magnétocassettes incipient, before the firemen do not greet it last once, with the air from the cap from the Bugeaud father.

Gegene, a little gray of glasses which followed one another, recited its creations of the year, as well as most popular, required by its public.

The teacher, in load of the good morality of the children, stopped it when the texts were dared too much for the time.

When the evening fell, much went to the chief town of canton Puiseaux, for the fireworks which enclosed this very convivial day.

Literature

Grangermont of the occupation is described by Patrick Cauvin in his novel " PovChéri".

This ironic description is not with the honor of Grangermont, Patrick Cauvin begins the chapter with a " I hate Grangermont".

It tells there with sarcastic remark, the transfered food ones which it made, in company of his/her father, to supply itself out of potatos whereas the hunger tortured the Parisian ones.

They arrived by the train at the station of Puiseaux, where they very expensive rented a wheelbarrow before climbing with foot the coast of Grangermont.

Arrived at Grangermont, they bought famous potatos with a farmer rubicond, who paid them glass of very stiff nasty wine, characteristic of that provided the few arpents of vines of baco that each one of them reviewed honor to be gathered the grapes at the beginning of the autumn.

Vines of antan

Each farmer of Grangermont had a vine which ensured its wine consumption to him for the year.

Plans of baco provided a red nasty wine, while the plans of noha gave a heavy white which made insane those which misused it.

The grape must was put in an opened barrel, that the mason of the village came " plâtrer" to make it ferment.

To plaster marcs, consisted in hermetically closing the top of the barrel with newspaper and plaster.

These marcs were distilled by a travelling home distiller which installed its still for a few days on a place, close to a well.

The owners of these marcs drank the ebullient drop which left the still.

The odor of the still empestait Grangermont throughout all service of the home distiller, which was called Mr. BUBBLE.

Teachers and the elementary school

Mr. LELIEVRE ensured the behavior of the single class until 1962, before taking the direction of an elementary school close to Montargis.

Mr. POHU took his continuation, until his retirement, which it peacefully runs while often coming in Grangermont.

Before is not creates the SIRIS which gathers the elementary schools of several communes of the canton, the school of Grangermont, which is next to the town hall, was with single class.

The courses which were exempted there went from the childish section to the certificate of primary studies.

The small ones five years could thus hear and impregnate lessons which the schoolmaster managed with large fourteen years.

The creation of the courses complementary to Puiseaux, in 1959, followed that of the college, installed in prefabricated, made it possible many children of Grangermont to continue studies out of secondary, until in 3rd.

A service of school bus service facilitated the transport of these pupils.

The teacher, manager of the case of the schools, organized four film shows per annum.

The large ones of the school made the round of the farms to recover benches which were then installed in the classroom.

Smallest packed up candy sachets or peanuts, sold during the interval with the profit of the case of the schools.

The projector was the property of several communes of the canton, which rented films in black and white.

There was no yet television with Grangermont.

These films were also projected in the villages around.

Grangermont then vibrated with the adventures of Fanfan the Tulip, or those of the quiet Father.

The collected funds made it possible to subsidize the annual voyage of the children (Chamonix, Le Havre, Versailles)

The children of Grangermont left in company of those Echilleuses.

Eugene MONTIGNY, the country poet of Grangermont

Old guy, Gégène drew from thin incomes of his herd of goats, whose cheeses were excellent.

He composed his poems by keeping his herd, rather the days of fog, said he, that inspired it.

Large republican, Gégène would not have for nothing in the missed world its go with his public, July fourteen.

It was for him the occasion to wash the feet with water that it drew from the well, on the place herbue, opposite its house.

It washed the feet once per annum (veracious).

Of red brick, its feet transfered with the pale white.

In front of its semi-attentive audience, semi-ironic, very Third republic, it attacked its worms of a way chevrotante.

It déclamait the worms of " thus; The car with carrieaux" , title of one of its most popular poems.

Politically, Eugene MONTIGNY had never admitted that the right to vote is granted to the women.

It was, at that time, an opinion still shared per many men.

In his old age, our poet stockbreeder had a splendid idea, it tried to reconvert himself into the breeding of the other animals with horns which are the snails.

Alas, its new herd did not obey to him as easily as its expensive biquettes, and escaped constantly from enclosed sound, to the great displeasure of the vicinity, which feared for its salads.

The pond

Like all the villages, Grangermont had a pond which made it possible the horses to be watered.

After all the Percherons all of Grangermont were died of old age or butchery, it is according to, a wind of modernity blew on Grangermont.

One did not need more a pond which moreover, did not feel inevitably good.

The municipality then decided to stop it to make a carpark of it.

The pond sheltered fish, carps and catfishes, which had been introduced there by a local fisherman joker.

The pond was emptied with a motorized pump, and whereas there remained only a few decimetres of water, the thrown into a panic fish jumped in the air.

It is with a fork with stones that the most beautiful catches, carps of several books, were fished.

For the misfortune of those which tried to consume them, they had a taste of rather marked vase, and did not leave an imperishable memory to the local gourmets.

Rural policeman

Grangermont had an employee who made function of roadmender, rural policeman, and drum of city.

This odd-job man commune was the spokesperson of the mayor, of which he announced with managed the municipal decisions.

A drum roll warned the inhabitants of Grangermont which the rural policeman was going to speak.

Those precipitated to come to listen to the herald of the time.

During the mandates of mayor of Robert VIRON, it invariably punctuated its advertisement by these words pronounced with high and understandable voice: " The Viron mayor! "

It went thus from street in street to the sound of its drum.

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Demography

1999 : 175 inhabitants
2006: 207 inhabitants

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