Villers-Cotterêts

Villers-Cotterêts is a common French, located in the middle of the Forêt of Retz in the department of the Aisne (02) and the area Picardy.

Villers-Cotterêts (“Small villa on the coast of Retz”).

Its inhabitants is Cotteréziennes and Cotteréziens.

Distance from Paris: 80 km in the North-East on the RN2 direction Laon.

History

It is here that in 1539 the king de France François I {{er}} signed the Ordonnance of Villers-Cotterêts, imposing the French like official language on the place of the Latin , as well as the beginning of generalization of a civil statue in France (recording of the baptisms and marriages).

Former mayors

Jean François Leon Senart (born and died in Villers-Cotterêts, born on November 21st, 1817 and died on May 24th, 1894), notary, he was mayor of this town of 1855 to 1867 and 1882 to 1884.

Monuments

Castle François I {{er}},

Did François 1st make build as from 1532, a new castle on the site of a precedent (13th century?) This castle where François 1st probably signed the Ordinance generalizing the use of French, passed to the family of Orleans which at the end of the 19th century made gift at the Town of Paris of it.

Castle of Valley (16th century), museum and native house of Alexandre Dumas.
the castle of Mazancourt was built by Simon SEZILLE, Seigneur of Happencourt and Bessancourt at the end of the 17th century. Its grandson, Charles Marie Balthazar SEZILLE of Mazancourt it remained in his family until the revolution when the counts de Mazancourt fled. The castle not being more in the possession of family SEIZILLES of Mazancourt, the descendants of these counts claim the castle which returns to them from right.

Native celebrities of Villers-Cotterêts

Alexandre Dumas (father) in 1802

See too

Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts
Grand Prix of Villers-Cotterets: professional cycle race

References

External bonds

Tourist office of Villers-Cotterêts
regional historical Company of Villers-Cotterêts

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