Thury () is a commune in the

Yonne Yonne (, in Burgundian: ''Ghienne'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the river Yonne, which flows through it, in the country's north-central part. One of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's eight con ...

department in

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in north-central France, in the natural region of

Forterre The Forterre () is a small natural region on the western edge of the French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Name The name Forterre is a contraction of ''forte terre'', "strong earth". Geography The Forterre is neighbored by the Puisa ...

. Its inhabitants are called ''Thurycois'' and ''Thurycoises''.

Name

Thury's is attested as ''Tauriacus'' in the high medieval ''Gesta of the Bishops of Auxerre'' (see below); ''Thuraco'' in 1369 ( Pouillé); ''Thoriaco'' of the fourteenth century ( Pouillé). ''Tauriacus'' originally referred to a field or property of one ''Taurus'', possibly ''Taruos'' in

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. The

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''-acus'' or ''-acum'' is of Gaulish origin and indicates a person's property. This suffix ( fr) often evolved into ''-y'' in many French place names, in Thury's region and far beyond. An alternative etymology would be from the appellative ''turra'', of pre-Latin and possibly Gaulish origin and the root of many toponyms. Thury's hamlets (''hameaux'') include Colangette, Gémigny, Grangette, La Forêt, Le Boichet, Les Grands Moulins, Moulery, and Panny.

Geography and geology

The altitude of the village of Thury is 225m. The higher localities on Thury's territory are: ''Les Grands Moulins'', at 327.5m; ''La Justice'', at 327m; ''Le Moulin Buteau'', at 325m; ''Le Roichat'', at 303.6m; ''Le Bois de Mont'', at 301.2m; and ''Marchat'', at 292m. Beyond Thury's boundaries, the highest points in the surroundings are at

Taingy Taingy () is a former commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts de Forterre.Perreuse, 373m; and the old mill of the ''Montagne des Alouettes'' on the territory of Sougères, 366.8m. A local belief that the latter's name is derived from the Roman

Legio V Alaudae Legio V Alaudae ("Fifth Legion of the Lark"), sometimes also known as Legio V Gallica ("Fifth Gallic Legion"), was a legion of the Roman army founded in 52 BC by the general Gaius Julius Caesar (dictator of Rome 49-44 BC). It was levied in Tra ...

is no longer held true, and the name appears to stem from the locale's feudal history.

Chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

quarries A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to manage their safet ...

near the settlement of ''Bois de Thury'' were exploited from 1850 to 1940.

History

Prehistoric traces of human presence in Thury, determined by finds of flint remains, go back to the

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about 40,000 years BCE.

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

objects (ca. 6000–3000 BCE in the region) discovered by Mr Creusard, including a polished stone

pestle A mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used to prepare ingredients or substances by compression (physics), crushing and shear force, grinding them into a fine Paste (rheology), paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. ...

that was used to crush grain, are held in the small museum inside the church's tower. Burgundian

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reported the finding in 1862 of bronze objects (a ring, a hatchet and a key) from the

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(ca. 3000–1000 BCE) in Thury's hamlet of Gémigny.

Thury before the Hundred Years' War

The

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from

Auxerre Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...

to Entrains-sur-Nohain forms part of the boundary between the respective territories of

Sougères-en-Puisaye Sougères-en-Puisaye (, literally ''Sougères in Puisaye'') is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the natural region of Forterre - even though its name refers to neighboring Puisaye. Inhabi ...

and Thury. Local tradition holds that the parish was created in 432 CE by

Germanus of Auxerre Germanus of Auxerre (; ; ; 378 – c. 442–448 AD) was a western Roman clergyman who was bishop of Autissiodorum in Late Antique Gaul. He abandoned a career as a high-ranking government official to devote his formidable energy towards the pr ...

. At any rate, Thury appears to have been a significant parish of the Auxerrois region during the early Middle Ages: it is cited several times in a manuscript started in the late 9th century, the ''Gesta episcoporum autissiodorensium'', as a station in the respective itineraries of Bishops Aunarius (''Saint Aunaire'', late 6th century), Tetricius (''Saint Tétry'', late 7th century), and Gerrannus (', early 10th century). The land of Thury was part of the battlefield of the

Battle of Fontenoy (841) The three-year Carolingian Civil War culminated in the decisive Battle of Fontenoy, also called the Battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye, fought at Fontenoy, near Auxerre, on 25 June 841. The war was fought to decide the territorial inheritances of C ...

. Echoes of the battle survive in toponyms around the village to this day. For example, the name of the nearby hill and wood of ''Roichat'' refers to King

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(''le roi Charles''), who had established his temporary base camp there. After 1000 CE, lordship over the land of Thury alternated between the

County of Auxerre The County of Auxerre was a medieval and early modern county in the West Frankish Kingdom, and consequently in the Kingdom of France. Its capital was the city of Auxerre. It was commonly associated with the Duchy of Burgundy. History The f ...

, its

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(long a territorial lord as well), the

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, the

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, and occasionally the

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. There is no trace of a specific lordship of Thury during that period though, and it is not clear how significant the village was if indeed it remained inhabited.

Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

In any event, Thury and the surrounding region suffered greatly during the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages, including the

Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy ...

. It was ravaged by roaming armies, especially in 1411 during an episode of the

Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a conflict between two cadet branches of the French royal family: the House of Orléans ( Armagnac faction) and the House of Burgundy ( Burgundian faction) from 1407 to 1435. It began during a lull in t ...

and in 1423 in the run-up to the

Battle of Cravant The Battle of Cravant was fought on 31 July 1423, during the Hundred Years' War between English and French forces at the village of Cravant in Burgundy, at a bridge and ford on the banks of the river Yonne, a left-bank tributary of the Seine, ...

. Security did not return until well after the Peace of Arras in 1435. Thury was (re-)populated by newcomers (known as ''horsains'', "foreigners") from other parts of the Kingdom of France. The village castle was built around that time. The church was rebuilt in the late 15th century and completed in 1503, with the portal sculpted in 1521. In 1542, Francis I granted Thury by

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the right to hold a weekly market and three fairs a year (and also to erect fortifications around the village), which was reaffirmed by Henry III in 1576 and

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in 1669. The region suffered from renewed insecurity during the

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, as it was on the way of the armies of

John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern John Casimir, Count Palatine of Simmern (German: ''Johann Casimir von Pfalz-Simmern'') (7 March 1543 – Brockhaus Geschichte Second Edition) was a German prince and a younger son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine. A firm Calvinist, he was a le ...

in 1576, of Count in 1587, and of in 1617 during the aristocratic uprising against

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. The hamlets of Grangette and Colangette, despite being geographically very close to Thury, where under separate jurisdiction as lands of the Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre and were only reunited with the rest of the village in 1710. In 1764, a fire ravaged much of Thury, even though the village castle and church were spared.

Lordship of Thury after the Hundred Years' War

Thury appears to have been part of the lordship of

Puisaye The Puisaye () is a natural and historical region of France, now divided between the Departments of France, departments of Loiret, Nièvre and Yonne. Its historical and administrative center is the town of Saint-Fargeau. Its inhabitants are know ...

at the time it was appropriated by

Antoine de Chabannes Antoine de Chabannes (1408–1488), from 1439 Counts of Dammartin, Count of Dammartin (with a gap in 1463–1465), was a significant military and political figure of 15th-century France. An indefatigable fighter, during his long career he joined ...

from the disgraced

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in the early 1450s. Upon his death in 1488, Antoine was succeeded as lord of Puisaye by his son Jean de Chabannes (1462–1503), whose coat of arms was sculpted (and is still extant) at the top of the tower of the church of Thury. As Jean had no surviving son, the lordship of Puisaye was inherited by his daughter Antoinette de Chabannes (1498–1529) and went as

dowry A dowry is a payment such as land, property, money, livestock, or a commercial asset that is paid by the bride's (woman's) family to the groom (man) or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price ...

to the family of Anjou- Mézières in 1515 when she married René d'Anjou (1483-ca. 1521). Their son Nicolas d'Anjou (1518-ca. 1569) sold Thury to Gaspard de Champs (?–1536), lord of nearby , thus separating it from the other lands of

. After that, Thury was mostly transmitted through the female line, as was often the case in the early modern period. It thus went to: * Marie de Champs (ca. 1528-?), daughter of Gaspard and Françoise de

Corquilleroy Corquilleroy () is a commune in the department of Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Population See also * Communes of the Loiret department The following is the list of the 325 communes of the Loiret department of France. The commun ...

, and Guillaume de

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(?–1584), married in 1537; * Marie de Grossouvre, daughter of Guillaume and Marie, and Jean de Meung la Ferté, married in 1583; * Madeleine de Meung la Ferté, daughter of Jean and Marie, and Pierre de Loynes, married around 1602; * Anne de Loynes (1603–1687), daughter of Pierre and Madeleine, and Jean de Richoufftz (1599–1655), a scion of the , married in 1631. The lordship of Thury fragmented in the mid-17th century and was eventually acquired in 1667–1668 by Louis du Deffand (1624–?), a high-ranking military officer, Marquess of Lalande and lord of Sementron, Fontenoy,

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, and other locales. (Le Deffand is a hamlet of Saints.) His son Jean-Baptiste du Deffand (1648–1728) completed the territorial consolidation in 1710 with the acquisition of Grangette, Colangette and Banny. Of his five children, one (Jean-Baptiste Jacques) was the husband of

Madame du Deffand Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (25 September 1696 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. Life Madame du Deffand was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais, a village near Charolle ...

; another, Jeanne Antoinette Louise, in 1716 married Joseph François de

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de Lauris des Gérards de Vassadel who thus acquired the lordship of Thury. Their son Louis Joseph Marie André Gabriel de Castellane, born in 1738, was the last lord of Thury.

Since 1800

As part of the

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, Thury was occupied by Austrian

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from 29 July to 5 August 1815, and then briefly by the

Bavarian Army The Bavarian Army () was the army of the Electorate of Bavaria, Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom of Bavaria, Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereig ...

. In 1840, the municipal council under mayor Edme Rouger decided to relocate the cemetery from the village square to its current location in the outskirts. The new cemetery enclosure was completed in 1844. The town hall was built between 1844 and 1861. There was unrest in Thury following the

1851 French coup d'état The coup d'état of 2 December 1851 was a self-coup staged by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (later Napoleon III), at the time President of France under the Second Republic. Code-named Operation Rubicon and timed to coincide with the anniversary of ...

, as in neighboring places in

Nivernais Nivernais (, ) was a province of France, around the city of Nevers, which forms the modern department of Nièvre. It roughly coincides with the former Duchy of Nevers.Puisaye The Puisaye () is a natural and historical region of France, now divided between the Departments of France, departments of Loiret, Nièvre and Yonne. Its historical and administrative center is the town of Saint-Fargeau. Its inhabitants are know ...

. The leaders of the uprising against the coup were pardoned in 1852.

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took a heavy toll like in most French villages. 38 local casualties are listed on Thury's war monument.

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was conducted in the 1920s, and running water was installed in the late 1930s with the construction of four reservoirs around Thury. Thury was again occupied by German invaders in June 1940 during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Because it had been equipped with running water ahead of the surrounding villages, a German

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camped there, in the park of the Angilbert property. The ''Kommandantur'' was established in the former post office. An

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Allied bomber on its way to targets in Germany was downed by a

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fighter aircraft above

Taingy Taingy () is a former commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Hauts de Forterre.resistance in Thury's surroundings was the ''Maquis 3'', which started in March–April 1944 in a wood north of Saint-Sauveur. This maquis then had to move east and was established near Thury on the ''Montagne des Alouettes'' in late July 1944. About 250-strong, the group had weapons parachuted by Allied planes. The village was liberated in August 1944.

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was completed between 1959 and 1962. Thury had a resident doctor during most of the 19th and 20th centuries. The last village doctor retired in 2011.

Local government

The municipality of Thury was created in 1793. It has always been part of the ''

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'' of

. Initially it was the seat (''chef-lieu'') of its own '' canton'', part of the ''

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'' of

Saint-Fargeau Saint-Fargeau is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the historical region of Puisaye. Main sights * Saint-Ferréol church, built in Gothic style in the 14th and 15th centuries. Notable b ...

. In 1801, Thury became part of the canton of

Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye () is a commune in the north-central French department of Yonne. It is located in an area historically known as Puisaye. In the early 1970s the Château de la Folie, north of the village (halfway to Mézilles) was home ...

and the arrondissement of

. Following a remodeling of the

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, Thury has been part of the Canton of Vincelles since 2015. Thury was part of the , created as one of the new ''

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'' under the . This ''pays'' was dissolved on 31 December 2016 and replaced on 1 January 2017 by the , with seat in

List of mayors of Thury

* ca.1793–1800: Joseph Jean Baptiste Desleau * 1800–1807: Louis Fron (1752–1813) * 1808–1814: Lazare Guillier (1765–1848) * 1815–1848: Edme-Alexandre Rouger (1782–1848) * 1848–1872: Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Pascault (1800–1872) * 1872–1894: Laurent Eugène Gonneau (1823–1895) * 1894–1913: Casimir Félix Angilbert (1846–1931) * 1913–1919: Jules Boutron (1851–?) * 1919–1925: René Delestre (1864–1931) * 1925–1947: Gustave Boisseau (1868–1954) * 1947–1983: Robert Barba (1913–2003) * 1983–1989: Jack Allard (?–2018) * 1989–2014: André Grossier (born 1947) * since 2014: Claude Conte (born 1951)

Economy

The local economy is predominantly agricultural. Thury also has several shops and services (grocery, bakery, hairdresser, pharmacy, post office) and several companies established on its territory (electricity, roofing, sanitation, masonry, earthwork & public Works, maintenance of green spaces, industrial computing, pet grooming) as well as guest houses in the village and its hamlets of Grangette and Moulery. Thury retains a primary school.

Heritage

Church of Saint-Julien

Thury's church is dedicated to

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and was built around 1500, possibly the third or fourth on this location. It was designated a ''

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'' by order (''décret'') of 4 August 1970. It is representative of the late

Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...

of the region. The original contract for the sculpture of the front portal is preserved in the of

. It was signed on 9 July 1521 between mason Antoine Cas and "ymageur" (sculptor) François Faulconnier at

. The wooden doors are from the 17th century and were restored in 1751. Three statues of St Peter, St Paul and Jesus Christ, by Parisian sculptor Jean-Georges Poutriquet, were added in 1975. The relics of Saint Caradoc, known locally as ''Caradeuc'' or ''Caradeu'', are attested since the early 17th century. They were locally believed to have been preserved in 1587 by inhabitants of Thury from the sacking of the church of Donzy, where they had been held since 1180; however, the veracity of this tradition has been questioned. Relics of the church patron

were donated from

and

Brioude Brioude (; Auvergnat: ''Briude'') is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-central France. It lies on the banks of the river Allier, a tributary of the Loire. History At Brioude, the ancient ''Bri ...

in 1896. The church's

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were created in the second half of the 19th century, some by Auguste Charlemagne of

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in 1870 and others in the 1880s. A small museum was opened in 2005 inside the church's tower. A major renovation of the church's tile roofing was conducted in 2015–2016. The nearby

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(''presbytère'') was rebuilt several times, last in 1843. File:Thury-%C3%A9glise-08.jpg, Main facade File:Thury_portail_église_(369_x_450).jpg, Main portal carved in 1521 File:Thury-FR-89-portail-église-12.jpg, Modern statue of St Peter on the main portal File:Thury-FR-89-église-03.jpg, Side portal File:Thury-FR-89-église-intérieur-01.jpg, Interior File:Thury-FR-89-église-20.JPG, Modern statue of St Julian of Brioude File:Thury-FR-89-église-vitrail-02.JPG, Stained glass window File:Thury-FR-89-église-intérieur-07.JPG, World War I memorial plaque File:Thury-FR-89-église-trésor-05.JPG, Shrine of St Caradoc File:Thury-FR-89-église Saint-Julien-mobilier-09.jpg, Shrine of St Julian File:Thury-FR-89-église-trésor-02.JPG, Museum in the Church tower

Village castle

The village castle, or fortified mansion, was built around the mid-15th century as Thury was starting to recover from the Hundred Years' War. It remained the abode of the local lords of Thury until the 18th century, when absentee lords transformed it into a hostel. , Bishop of Auxerre, stayed there in 1760 to signal his displeasure with the local priest, who was a

Jansenist Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain development ...

. In 1768 Louis Joseph Marie André Gabriel de Castellane, the last lord of Thury, took residence there again, but in 1786 moved permanently to his Parisian

Hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

on . The property was sold in 1800 to the former lord of nearby

Lainsecq Lainsecq () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the natural region of Forterre. See also *Communes of the Yonne department The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne d ...

. In 1849, the local Briot family purchased it from the family of former mayor Edme Rouger, and still owns and occupies it. A separate property, on the road towards Saint-Sauveur, is also known locally as the ''Château de Thury''. It was built in the late 19th century by Thury-born businessman Casimir Félix Angilbert, who was the village's mayor from 1893 to 1913. Angilbert also sponsored the creation in 1900 of a mall of chestnut trees (''Allée des marronniers'') on the other side of the road, leading to the house of his cousin Alix.

World War I Monument

The

monument stands in the middle of the village square. It was inaugurated in 1925 after six years of preparations. The statue of a resolute ''

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'' is a cast of Charles-Henri Pourquet's sculpture, ''La Résistance'', manufactured by the and also adopted by hundreds of other French villages for the same purpose.

Old lavoir

The village

lavoir A lavoir (, wash-house) is a public place set aside for the washing of clothes. Communal washing places were common in Europe until industrial washing was introduced, and this process in turn was replaced by domestic washing machines and by s ...

, on the road towards Saint-Sauveur, was built in the early 19th century and is well preserved. File:Thury-FR-89-lavoir-04.jpg, Lavoir exterior File:Thury-FR-89-lavoir-05.jpg, Lavoir interior File:Thury-FR-89-bâtisse-06.jpg, old house in front of the lavoir

Local activities

* Every day of the summer of 2009 except Monday, opening the church access to and Lapidary Museum panorama tower 15 h 00-18 h 00. * Grain Fair in February, nearest 25.
Academy of Chamber Music of Thury
1–13 August. Several concerts in the churches of the canton, with the closing concert 13 August in the church of Thury. * Feast of Saint Julien, the third Sunday in August. * Heritage Days, historical and architectural tour of the village (2 hours) and open multiple sites (press, forge, mayor, cadastre of 1825, church and bell tower, etc.).. * The Seniors Club, named ''Printemps malgré tout'', participates in various events within the municipality and organizes cultural trips for its members. * Library with over 4000 volumes, contributes to the promotion of culture. Custodian of the county library, it provides access to over 150,000 books. * ''Le P'tit Thurycois'', the village's local journal, has been published on a quarterly basis from spring 1983.

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