Signy-le-Petit

Signy-le-Petit is a common French, located in the department of the the Ardennes and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

History

Frontier village, Signy, which became later “ Signy-le-Petit ”, was often devastated by the wars: burned in 1340, devastated in 1521. In 1636, it is again burnt and the destroyed church. It thus should not be astonished that the current building, rebuilt of 1680 to 1686, is a strengthened church and nowadays constitutes one of the stages of the circuit of the “strengthened churches of the Thiérache”.

About the years 1840, Signy, its borough and its hamlets in agricultural matter count 2.300 inhabitants. It is a shopping mall and artisanal (breweries, mills, potteries, brickyards). But the industrial transformations of the XIXe century will bring the Rural migration: the artisanal activities stop the ones after the others. In same time, the establishment of three foundries, which will make work more than 400 workmen in 1900, accentuates the industrial character of the borough and supports the development of a strictly working population.

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Augustin Barrachin

See too

Common of the Ardennes

External bonds

Signy-le-Petit on the site of the national geographical Institute
Signy-le-Petit on the site of INSEE
Signy-le-Petit on the site of Quid
Localization of Signy-le-Petit on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Signy-le-Petit on Mapquest

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