Mâcon

See also: Mason

Capital of the Mâconnais, Mâcon is a common French located in the department of Saône-et-Loire and the area Burgundy.

Its inhabitants is called the “Mâconnais”.

The blazon of Mâcon has as a heraldic definition: “Of mouths with three money rings”. This blazon would be used since the Renaissance.

Geography

The city extends on Western bank from the the Saone, between the Bresse with the east and the mounts of the Beaujolais in the west. Mâcon is the southernmost city of the area Burgundy, which gives him with its Romance tiled roofs and its coloured frontages a small air of city of the south. It is located at sixty-five kilometers in the north of Lyon and at four hundred kilometers of Paris.

History

The Agglomeration mâconnaise car its origin of the establishment of a Oppidum by the people of the Éduens, undoubtedly at the beginning of. Known then under the name of Matisco , the city quickly will develop during the first two centuries of our era.

During the 4th century, the city will be strengthened.

With the the Middle Ages, Mâcon was the chief town of a county attached to the Duché of Burgundy, located at the end of the bridge on the Saone leading to the fields of Bresse Duché of Savoy. The city ordered the access to current Val Lamartinien, where the southern end of the Coast of Burgundy joined the first buttresses of the mounts of the Beaujolais wine, opening the way with the flat rich person of the the Loire.

Charles IX, coming from Trawl-net, stops on June 3rd, 1564 in the city at the time of royal sound Tour de France (1564 - 1566), accompanied by the Cour and Large by the kingdom: his/her brother the duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, cardinal of Bourbon and Lorraine. The city is strategic: it is a main door of the kingdom potential for the Swiss ones or the German mercenaries, in the context of the wars of religion. It is accommodated there by the queen Jeanne of Navarre, said the “queen of the Protestants”, and thousand five hundred Protestants.

In 1789, the city became prefecture of the department of Saône-et-Loire lately created.

In 1814, the city was invaded by the Austrian armies then released twice by the French troops before being definitively occupied until the fall of the Empire. After the return of Napoleon and the Hundred Days, Mâcon and the Mâconnais were again taken by the Austrians.

During the Second world war, the town of Mâcon will be the first city in free Zone between Paris and Lyon.



Communications

Mâcon is connected to the great close agglomerations by various transportation routes:

Administration

Demography

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  • Population agglomeration: 61.641 inhabitants (CAMVAL)
  • Population urban surface: 104000 inhabitants.

The influence of Mâcon seems to intensify. It is one of the large basins of use of the department which is by far most dynamic (+ 13,5% of rise between 1999 and 2006) compared to the cities such as Châlon-sur-saône or Montceau-the-Mines which lose employment, in particular thanks to the many transportation routes and the proximity of Lyon.

To announce that the fall of the population of the city is done with the profit of a phenomenon of periurbanisation on the communes of the Mâconnais but also of Ain bordering. Therefore the area of influence of Mâcon, the “Large Mâconnais”, concentrates on three departments: the Saône-et-Loire, Ain and the Rhone. Thus, among the forty seven communes of less than ten thousand inhabitants of the urban surface, forty and one are in growth and six stable or very light fall.

Districts

  • the Downtown area of Mâcon extends from the place Gardon , in North, until the roundabout of Europe , in the South, of the Place of the Bar , in the West, to the quays bordering the Saone in the East of the city.

The Downtown area is the shopping mall of the city, the majority of the trade are close to the Town hall (street Carnot, street Dufour, street Sigorgne, street Philibert-Laguiche, street Dombert, street Franche, Lamartine quay, Lamartine esplanade and street of the Bar).
It also acts, in all logic, of the historical center of the city. The majority of the historic buildings are present there (Saint-Vincent Cathedral, Eglise Saint-Pierre…) as well as the two museums of the ville.
The Downtown area is composed of several districts rather different from/to each other: the district Saint-Anthony , is, with the Place with the Grasses , the historical heart of Mâcon, in spite of its relative distance of the Town hall. This district covers the northern part of the Downtown area, it is crossed by the street of Strasbourg and is made up small lanes. One finds there the Prefecture of Saône-et-Loire as well as the Old Saint-Vincent Cathedral commonly called the " Old Saint-Vincent".
More in the West is the Square of Peace , bordered by the Hospital, the Law courts, the Saint-Vincent Cathedral as well as the Small valley of Rigollettes and the district of Heritan .

On the edges of the Saone, the esplanade Lamartine recently underwent deep work of refitting and embellishment. The tortuous carpark and the damaged paving stones succeeded an underground car park of 2 levels, an esplanade increased and clearer, bars, a scene being able to accommodate all kinds of demonstrations, concerts and spectacles and installed on the Saone. The statue Lamartine, which throne on the esplanade, was entirely renovated. Small gardens now decorate the immense space which represents the esplanade Lamartine of Mâcon.

  • the North of Mâcon is cut into two, delimited by the roundabout of Neusdadt .

Flacé-lès-Mâcon , village integrated into the city, constitutes the North-West of Mâcon. In addition to one city hall annex, of a church and a small downtown area, Flacé is entirely composed of residential zones of the type pavillonnaire.
The North-East of Mâcon, as for him, is composed of various residential zones as well as sporting center of the city (course P.A.P.A, public swimming pool, C.R.E.P.S, club of oar, several grounds and football clubs, the Sport hall). The residential zones as for them are dominated by HLM with districts such as ZUP of Mâcon or the Boulevard of the United States (belonging administratively to the district of the Saugeraies ).

  • the South of Mâcon is composed as for him of three major zones.

the first zone is the unit Saint-Clement/Blanchettes also called Southern Percée. Saint-Clement represents only one small portion but constitutes the retail park of the South of Mâcon with the roundabout of Europe. Blanchettes is a district HLM crossed by the Edouart-Hérriot Avenue. Very wooded district, with in particular the Park of the Matches and its many plays for children. Let us note that it is with Saint-Clement that the Romance church of the same name is.
  • the second zone is extended from this part of the city, it acts of the southern industrial park of Mâcon (most important of the agglomeration) which is made up of the River Port of Mâcon (6th of France).
  • the third and last zone of the south of Mâcon is Chanaye/Fontenailles and is located at the South-west of the city. Fontenailles is a residential zone made up of houses. Chanaye (to pronounce " Chanai") is a zone HLM bordered by the Mâconnaise Greenhouses. This district makes party, with the Boulevard of the United States and ZUP of Mâcon, of French ZUS.

    • the West of Mâcon is the least populated part city.

    One finds the majority of the colleges there built (Rene Cassin, Lamartine, Dumaine and Ozanam), some residential zones merging with those of Charnay-lès-Mâcon, the University hospital of Mâcon as well as the historical working district of Mâcon: Bioux .

    Economy

    Mâcon is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Saône-et-Loire. It manages the river ports of Mâcon and Châlon-sur-saône through Aproport, Automobile CFA and the airports of Mason-Charnay, Saint-Yan and Trawl-net-Champforgueil.

    • Undertaken with strong notoriety:
      • Joker (fruit juice)

    Others

    • Surface: 2.704 hectares including 576 hectares of green areas.

    • Sport S and Leisures: 73 clubs including 55 practiced associations, 40 sports, 14.506 sporting bachelors (either 42% of the population). Elected the most sporting city of France in 2001.
    The club of Rugby of a.S. MASON currently evolves/moves into Federal 2 (fourth level of the hierarchy) and had reached more the high level in 1987-1988 (the ASM appeared in the hen O with Biarritz Olympique of Serge Blanco, the U.S. Dax, Montpellier and Lavelanet).

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