Mills (To combine)

See also: Mills

Moulins (the denomination Mill-on-To combine is sometimes used) is a common French, prefecture of the department Allier, in the area Auvergne. Historically capital from the Bourbonnais, the agglomeration extends along the Allier.

Its inhabitants is called the Moulinois .

Geography

The town of Mills is located in the department Allier and the area Auvergne, is in the center of France. Primarily located along Right Bank To combine it (one of the last wild rivers of Europe), affluent of the Loire, Moulins profit from an environmental framework agréable.
The city is placed on the buttresses of the Massif Central, but the relief is yet only very slightly undulating there. Finally Moulins is roughly in extreme cases between scrap-metal bourbonnais in the West and the Sologne bourbonnaise in the East.

Access

Mills is located on RN 7 but is also at the origin of RN 9. One easily joined, starting from the city, the A77, via the RN7, and the A71, via RCEA (Road Centers Atlantic Europe - E62-)
Mills has a skirting by the East.

Major rail links:

  • connection Coral Téoz Clermont Ferrand/Paris Gare de Lyon
  • connection Coral-FOR THE THIRD TIMe Intercité Turn-Orleans/Lyon Leaves God

Demography

Communes bordering

History

The first mention of dwellings in a place naming Moulins goes up with 990.
Mills became capital Duché of Bourbon, with the detriment of Souvigny, starting from the accession with the duchy, in 1488, of Pierre II (1438-1503), said Pierre de Beaujeu , husband since 1474 of Anne of France (1461-1522).
Today, Moulins is the prefecture of the department Allier.

Administration

Mills is the prefecture Allier, although it is not about the most important city in term of population.

Files

  • parochial Registers and of civil statue since:
  • genealogical Examinations:
  • municipal Deliberations since:

Twinnings



Economy

Mills is one of the 2 seats of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Mill-Vichy. It manages the Aerodrome of Mills-Montbeugny.

Places and Monuments

Moulins presents an interesting downtown area, dominated by the high bell-towers of the Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Sacred Heart. Mélant styles of various times, with, nevertheless dominant medieval and Rebirth, Moulins is classified town of art and history in 1997.

Religious heritage

  • Cathedral of Mills: Gothic chorus blazing of the XV° century (old collegial Notre-Dame), neo-gothic nave primitive about 1870. Shelter the triptych of the Maître of Mills .
  • Church Holy-Claire, vault of the old monastery of Clarisses, whose cloister was bored by the current street of the Comedy (arch of the still visible cloister on the frontages of the houses)
  • Église of the Sacred Heart, first church in France devoted about 1870 to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Église Saint-Pierre: Romance time
  • Vault of the Old convent of the Holy Visitation Marie (about 1650), monastery where died holy Jeanne de Chantal in 1641, which was until 1998 the vault of the Banville College. Shelter the mausoleum of the Duc of Montmorency, Pair of France, carried out for its plot against Richelieu at the sides of Gaston of Orleans. Its widow, Marie-Félice of Ursins, withdraw themselves in this monastery in 1637 and devote her influence and her fortune to the radiation of this monastery and the construction of this mausoleum, carved by Anguier.

Civil inheritance

  • Turn of the Clock, known as “Jacquemart”, vestige of the old enclosure
  • Badly-Capped Tower, vestige of the old castle of the dukes of Bourbon
  • Barracks of the Villars District, today National center of the costume
  • College Theodore de Banville, first College of France, created by the law of the 11 Floréal Year X (May 1st, 1802), and inaugurated on June 16th, 1803, the Banville College was installed in the old convent of the Visitation. The building of origin is still visible today (Street of Paris) but the access to the college is done now by the other end of the buildings (Course Vincent d' Indy).
  • Large Coffee, one of the ten more beautiful breweries 1900 of France.
  • Régemortes Bridge, construction finished in 1763.

Culture

  • municipal Theater
  • Museum " Anne de Beaujeu" departmental and municipal (in the old house of Anne de Beaujeu): single collections of sculptures bourbonnaises and German and Flemish paintings of the Middle Ages and the rebirth without forgetting Archeology particular, the Gallo-Roman terra cotta statuettes To combine it.
  • Museum of the building: in an old house of the XVIIIe century (having accommodated the Companions of the duty), this museum devoted to the building present of the permanent exposures relating to passed and the evolution of each actor of construction: techniques, tools, models, plans, know-how.
  • Citévolution: this space presents the buildings of the time concerned, the historical evolution and the advance of the visit to you, thanks to the models and with the plan-reliefs of the city.
  • National center of the illustration, open since the month of October 2005, presents works of illustrators of children's books for their conservation
  • National center of the costume, inaugurated on July 1st, 2006: preserve and presents a prestigious collection of 10.000 costumes accompanied by their accessories, deposited by three national establishments, the National library of France, the French Comedy and the National Opera of Paris.
  • Museum of the Visitation, inheritance about the Visitation, composed of single textile collections by their freshness and their diversity, of civil and religious goldsmithery joined together in a strong room, and devotion and objets d'art of 1550 to our days. The unit is the single example in Europe of a place of memory devoted to the inheritance and the history of a Monastic order (founded in 1610). Allows to discover and touch finger the French history and the history of the women during these four centuries. To note the presence of object recalling the local history of Bourbonnais who still accommodates a monastery of the Visitation.
  • Triptych of the Master of Mills, guided visit. The Maître of Mills, of which the identification made run much ink, was attached to the court of the dukes of Bourbon. Among its works, the triptych of the cathedral of Mills, gone back to 1502, is in an excellent state of conservation. It represents the Virgin of the Apocalypse, in company of the givers, the duke Pierre II and the duchess Anne de Beaujeu with their Suzanne daughter.

Cultural events

  • Festival of the data base of Mills.
  • Festival of Arts of Street and Circus Découvr' Art of Dompierre on Besbre, near Mills.

Heraldic

Blasonnement of the traditional weapons of the town of Mills: Money
“with three cross molines of sand open of the iron field of mill; with the chief of azure charged with three flowers of gold lily. ”
as brought back in the Large encyclopedic Larousse (1960).
Money
“with three sand cross molines two and one; with the chief of azure, charged with three flowers of gold lily. ”
as brought back by Malta-Brown, in illustrated France (1882).

According to the bank of the blazon, the cross molines are graphic deformations of the anchor-ties or irons of mill which were used to assujétir the grinding stones. It thus seems that both blasonnements are identiques.

However the precision " out of iron of moulin" indeed useless for the reading with the advantage of underlining the fact that it is about speaking Armes.
Blasonnement of Malta-Brown the opening of the center of the crosses (" does not mention; opened champs") and the position " mentions unnecessarily; two and un" who is the position by défaut.
The two readings detail the known chief unnecessarily of France. A more rigorous reading would be thus:

  • " Of money with three cross molines of sand open of the field; with the chief of France"

Personalities born in Moulins

Sport

  • the Sports association Moulinoise (ASM) was one of the clubs evolving/moving in National at the time of the season 2005-2006. It is about the single time where the team had reached such a level. The club was relegated in Championship of France amateur in May 2006.

  • the city organizes one year out of two the championships of France of Shooting to the stand Roger Dumont.

See too

  • Common To combine it

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Mills
  • Official site of the community of agglomeration of Mills, 26 communes
  • Mills on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Mills on the site of INSEE
  • Mills on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Mills on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Mills on Mapquest

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