We start this tour at the foot of the church of St. Medard go towards La Muette. Along the coast Elancourt, we discover the old orphanage Assumption before joining the nine mill then Polançon firm that operates the valley still. Arrived at the Lock, we look back on the mound to dominate the Castle Pontchartrain at the bottom of a large driveway.
Namely: Elancourt has been occupied since Neolithic times. Over the years, the town hosts the Roman road linking Paris to Dreux, then a system of channels serving the royal chateau of Versailles. The church is built in the 10th century in Romanesque style and restored by the original Knights Templar in the 13th. We find traces of their passage on the domestic capitals and keystone of the edifice. In the 19th, Father Méquignon founded an orphanage acknowledged public utility in 1866. The venue will host 300 children who represent one third of the population. In 1869, a laundry was built on the ru Elancourt, but its use is subject to a fee of 20 cents collected by the keeper. A distiller settles at the laundry during the winter to prepare the plum brandy. Economic activity revolves around farms, mills, farms wine over 4 villages: the Launay, the village, Little and Great Villedieu. Then the construction of the new town's population exploded, pushing away the farm. The orphanage now houses children with social problems. As for Pontchartrain, the place is inhabited since ancient times. A castle is mentioned first in 1325. In 1595 it was acquired by Antoine de Buade Frontenac who is transformed, then bought in 1609 by Paul Phélypeaux, secretary of state, who added a chapel. Louis II de Pontchartrain hired Le Nôtre in 1693 to create the park. Sequestered during the revolution, the castle is purchased by the Osmond family, before falling to Henkel Donnersmark then to Dreyfus from 1880 to 1932. At the foot of the hill was built the village of Les Bordes. In the 18th, the road is too dangerous Neauphle, Frederic Maurepas deviates by Bordes. This axis supports the development of the village through the activities of post-horses and inns relay. Later, famous restaurants attract visitors this weekend after the Second World War. Between 1994 and 98, the farm lands of Ythe are the subject of major excavations to have been at the crossroads of major routes including Paris Beauvais Orleans and Dreux. Archaeologists found traces of a sanctuary with Celtic temple, lime kilns, pottery kilns and metal workshops
We then cross the room in the cooler to reach ruins of the farm Ythe . From there, we win on the Smith Mauldre across the rocks. In the village, time stopped around the St Leu and St Gilles castle.
Namely: the fief belonged in the Middle Ages to the Mignon family. Their castle stands at the Hunière near the chapel of Ste Genevieve. In the 15th century, the estate goes to Leclerc. John starts the reconstruction of the castle in the 16th. His wife, Marie de Lafayette, made complete by adding a postern to secure drawbridge to the castle. Meanwhile, she is girding wall adjacent properties to protect their citizens religious wars. One of his son, Father Joseph, Richelieu became adviser. Another governor of the Bastille, is still embellish the castle, while two wings were added in the 18th. The property was sold in 1947 in the town of Neuilly sur Seine. Since then, the castle once more private is used for hotel operations and leisure. As for the church, it loses its steeple after a heavy rainstorm during the 17th, but the Chancellor of the Pontchartrain had rebuilt identically. In 1872, the church inherited from the ashes of Angennes, hitherto preserved in the church at Rambouillet. The building was completely rebuilt in 1859 and 1870.
By the pond Hunière , we follow the valley Mauldre hosting the Foxes, vegetable biological father to daughter. Just before the ordeal of the hill of peace, we turn left into Daubers. After a nice downhill, we must go back into the woods Prudhomme. Then following the Pr, we arrive at the pond Courance . But before we sink into the wood of Maurepas, we take a moment to approach the dungeon Chapel and St Saviour.
Namely: Maurepas lands are occupied since the 4th millennium BC. In the 9th century, a family acquires chatellery Malrepast of belonging while at the Abbey of Saint Denis. 
This family took the name of the village, built a fortified first home, while the peasants are gathering around the chapel St Saviour. In the 11th, the tower was rebuilt in stone, the building of twenty feet high and seventeen feet in diameter is expected to resist the Norman invasions. But the hundred years war was right chatellery in 1346; the Malrepast must leave their land immediately recovered by a lord who engages in robbery from 1364 (Haymon Massy - St. Paul Druss). He was overthrown by the Earl of Arundel, Lieutenant General of England, in 1432. The keep is destroyed in half vertically to prevent its reconstruction. At the end of the 16th, John Frederick Phélypeaux, Count Pontchartrain, restored the chapel. His son, Phélypeaux Louis, Chancellor and Keeper of Louis XIV inherited the chatellery. Local curiosity: in 1790, the priest Daudrieu is elected mayor by the active citizens of the town. Like Elancourt, the slow pace of the village is disrupted by the creation of the new town (20,000 inhabitants in less than 50 years). The ruins of the keep we offer a unique testimony Ile dungeon cylindrical buttresses.
This family took the name of the village, built a fortified first home, while the peasants are gathering around the chapel St Saviour. In the 11th, the tower was rebuilt in stone, the building of twenty feet high and seventeen feet in diameter is expected to resist the Norman invasions. But the hundred years war was right chatellery in 1346; the Malrepast must leave their land immediately recovered by a lord who engages in robbery from 1364 (Haymon Massy - St. Paul Druss). He was overthrown by the Earl of Arundel, Lieutenant General of England, in 1432. The keep is destroyed in half vertically to prevent its reconstruction. At the end of the 16th, John Frederick Phélypeaux, Count Pontchartrain, restored the chapel. His son, Phélypeaux Louis, Chancellor and Keeper of Louis XIV inherited the chatellery. Local curiosity: in 1790, the priest Daudrieu is elected mayor by the active citizens of the town. Like Elancourt, the slow pace of the village is disrupted by the creation of the new town (20,000 inhabitants in less than 50 years). The ruins of the keep we offer a unique testimony Ile dungeon cylindrical buttresses. After crossing the forest, we came out on the field of discrete Coudray, then we bypass the Harrington to join our starting point.
Overview This Release: Plain Jouars
0 comments:
Post a Comment