Lamotte-Beuvron

Lamotte-Beuvron is a common French, located in the department of the Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

This small town is located in the Sologne on the Beuvron. The Forêt of Lamotte-Beuvron (National forest extending makes some mainly on Vouzon) occupies part of its territory. At the beginning of the XXe century, one said of Lamotte-Beuvron that it was “the capital of hunting” in the Sologne.
It is in Lamotte-Beuvron that succeeds the Canal of Sauldre builds in second half of the XIXe century to bring in the middle of the Sologne the marl of Blancafort (Expensive) for the improvement of agriculture of the area.

History

Until the beginning of the XIXe century Lamotte-Beuvron is called It Mothe-on-Beuvron. This name points out its origin: a feudal Mound established close to the river Beuvron (etymology of Beuvron: “river of the Beaver S”, the Celtic word beber meaning beaver). A feudal castle (of which nothing remains) crowned this artificial hillock. Until the XVIIIe century, Lamotte-Beuvron was only one hamlet of Vouzon, whose borough is located at 5 kilometers. On the initiative of its lords, Anne de Lévis de Ventadour (about 1660) and especially of the marshal of Lasted and of his wife (end XVIIe century), this hamlet becomes autonomous parish in 1703, but this independence is worth only for the religious affairs. In addition, in particular out of administrative and tax matter, Vouzon and Lamotte constitute a single community of inhabitants, that of Vouzon-Lamotte. Lamotte-Beuvron acquires its administrative independence only on January 20th, 1792, by a decision of the Directoire of the department which gives him the statute of common. The development of Lamotte-Beuvron is related to the progressive abandonment during second half of the XVIIIe century of the road of Orleans to Bourges by the Ménestreau-in-Villette, Vouzon and Pierrefitte-on-Sauldre with the profit of the royal road of Paris to Toulouse (the current RN 20). The startup of the railway line Orleans - Vierzon in 1847 (which prolongs that connecting Paris to Orleans functioning since 1843) accentuates the advantage of Lamotte compared to Vouzon.

Under the Second Empire, Lamotte-Beuvron must much with the personal interest that the emperor Napoleon III carries to the locality of which it acquired the castle in 1852. The emperor made there build several buildings of which the current town hall, the church, as well as the Canal of Sauldre connecting the city to Blancafort.

Administration

Administrative history

At the end of the Old Mode, Lamotte-Beuvron belonged to the Généralité, the election, the Subdélégation and the Grenier with salt of Orleans. It depended on the bailliage of Orleans, and one followed there the habit of this same city. On the religious level, the parish belonged to the Diocèse of Orleans and of the Archidiaconé of the Sully-on-Loire.
the decree of the 3 brumaire year XI October 1802) sets up [[Lamotte-Beuvron] in chief town of canton to replace Chaumont-on-Tharonne.

Demography

Places and monuments

The castle and the Field of Saint-Maurice

One knows nothing the primitive castle built on the feudal mound. The medieval fortress him having succeeded is altered at the 14th century. It is shaven at the 17th century, when its owner the Archevêque of Bourges Anne de Lévis de Ventadour decides to make build a castle of pleasure on his site. In its actual position, the castle of Lamotte-Beuvron is composed of three elements:

in the center, a part built in 1567 by the lord of the place, Gilbert de Lévis of Ventadour;
on the left, a part built in the middle of the 17th century by Anne de Lévis of Ventadour, which had the Seigneurie Vouzon-Lamotte by family heritage, and not because of its title of archbishop of Bourges;
on the right, a part built under the Second Empire, time when the field belongs to Napoleon III, initially with personal capacity, then like equipment of the crown.

Napoleon III wants to make of this field an example for the the Sologne on the agricultural level. " farms modèles" there are established and of great agricultural demonstrations (exposures, demonstrations of modern material) are held there, in particular in 1858 and 1864.

After the fall of the Empire, the field of Lamotte-Beuvron is reserved for the ministry for the Justice, which made there establish in 1872 a center of rehabilitation for young delinquents, called " Field of Saint-Maurice" by its first director, an ecclesiastic. Under various names (the last being that d'" Professional boarding school of Surveillée" Education;), this center will function until 1993.

Starting from 1992, the Field of Saint-Maurice shelters a Riding school named " Riding school of Saint-Maurice".

In 1993, in front of the strong progression of its bachelors, the National Delegation of Horsemanship on Poney seeks a site to establish the championship of France fixedly there, then entrusted each year to a club. The site of Saint-Maurice, belonging partly to the ministry for agriculture, has quality necessary to accommodate this demonstration (place available, accessibility via the A71, placed at the center of France…), which is held there (inter alia demonstrations) each year since 1994. After several year of one big hit, the site becomes the Federal Equestrian Park of the French federation of Horsemanship.

The town of Lamotte-Beuvron then has one of the most advanced infrastructures of horsemanship of France: horse-gears of 4.000 m ², the careers of Jump of obstacles, a spring-garden, a national cross-country race, five rectangles of raising, grounds of Horse-ball and Sports shirt, a round of Avrincourt, more than 700 boxings permanent, three carparks, a restaurant of 300 people, versatile rooms of meeting, technical premises equipped, an administrative building of 2200 m ², lodgings, four blocks medical, a permanent general wiring for sound. The French federation of Horsemanship envisages to install its head office on the Field of Saint-Maurice since 2008. It will settle with the site of the old buildings of the youthful penitentiary, in ruins since many years. The castle will be restored to accommodate a museum of the horse there.

The church

During the creation of the parish, the vault of the castle built in 1666 was used as parish church under the term of Holy-Anne, Anne being the first name of the archbishop of Bourges. This one had launched about 1660 the process having to lead to the creation of the parish (which did not belong to the diocese of Bourges that it managed, but to that of Orleans). The primitive parish church was located at the north of the current church. Dilapidated and become too small for a population in full expansion, it was demolished and replaced by the church current Holy-Anne, built of 1858 and 1861 within J. of Morandière, partly thanks to a personal gift of Napoleon III.
the church of Lamotte-Beuvron preserves, coming from the former church, black the marble epitaph indicating the burial of the heart of Henri de Durfort, wire of the lord of Vouzon-Lamotte, deceased with the armies, in Flanders, in 1697 at the age 26 years. It also has that of the body of her mother, Marguerite-Happiness of Lévis de Ventadour, deceased in September 1717.

The town hall

Built of 1860 to 1862, the town hall presents a frontage evoking that of castle-medieval. Its construction was largely financed, like the church, by a strong personal participation of Napoleon III. The primitive plans envisaged the construction of a complete administrative unit including/understanding town hall, room of district court and school, but the fall of the Second Empire in September 1870, while putting fine at imperial generosity, made give up this ambitious project which was limited to the construction of the only town hall.

The house of the Agricultural Central committee of the Sologne

The Agricultural Central committee of the Sologne was created by the Minister for Agriculture in 1859. It is then a semi-public organization, born from the initiative of a certain number of land great landowners belonging to the agricultural Shows of the three departments having part of the Sologne (Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Cher). These notable wants to then coordinate the efforts in favor of the " rénovation" area and to defend of them the interests vis-a-vis the public authorities. The owners and civils servant who constitute it join together initially with the imperial castle of Lamotte-Beuvron. Having lost any official recognition at the beginning of the Third Republic, the Agricultural Central committee makes build in 1908 a building where it can meet and preserve its files. This house is established vis-a-vis the basin of the Canal of Sauldre, not of result of a work of 47 kilometers.

Personalities related to the commune

The Tatin Sisters

Under the Second Empire and more still under the Third Republic, Lamotte-Beuvron, connected well by rail to Paris, becomes the “capital of hunting” solognote attended by business men and politicians. Vis-a-vis the station, the Tatin hotel is then a famous gastronomical relay. It is there that, in the last years of the XIXe century, the restorers, the sisters Tatin (Stéphanie, known as “Fanny”, 1838-1917, and Caroline, 1847-1911) invent - by chance gift - famous the Tarte Tatin. This dessert is revealed with the Gastronome S by most famous among them, Curnonsky, is called " the prince of the gastronomes" who speaks of it in praise in 1926 in the volume of gastronomical France devoted to Orléanais.

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