Neuvy-Grandchamp () is a
commune in the
Saône-et-Loire
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Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
department
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in the
region
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of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
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in eastern France.
Geography
Neuvy-Grandchamp is located to from Paris and
Lyon
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. With its , the common of Neuvy Grandchamps is the largest municipality in Canton of Gueugnon. However, in 1869, the town was cut from to contribute to the formation of the new
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:
Les Guerreaux. The hilly area of the town rises to and stretches for from north to south and from east to west.
Toponymy
From "Novis Vicus" in the ninth century through "Noviacus" in the thirteenth century, "Niviz" or "Novovico" in the fourteenth century, "Neufvy" in the seventeenth century and finally "Neuvy" in the eighteenth century, the name thus refers to a village on the roadside.
History
The formation of fiefs and the parish during the early Middle Ages is quite obscure. In the 14th century, the great fief of Vesvre occupied the northern half of the region. The rest, which seems to result from the fragmentation of another large rural domain, was divided into several lands from which the fief of Beauchamp emerged during the following centuries.
Nicolas Rolin owned the seigneury of Beauchamp but probably lived there little. This stronghold had the particularity of having an iron factory (as well as the mine which supplied it) near its castle, now disappeared. Sold as national property in 1799, they were bought in 1802 by Michel Ramus (founder of the Royal Foundry of Montcenis) who modernized and developed them, making this establishment one of the most competitive in the region. His death prevented him from creating an annex to
Saint-Agnan. Acquired by the Count of Dormy, the factory quickly collapsed and definitively ceased operations in 1834. The mine was closed for lack of profitability towards the end of the 19th century, but reopened during the Second World War to serve as a refuge for
STO
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refractories. The exploitation was definitively stopped in 1948.
Since 1891, a decree of the
President of the Republic associates with the name of the town the place called Grandchamp, from the name of this coal exploitation.
During the Spanish Civil War, Neuvy-Grandchamp was one of the rare french rural municipalities to have received refugees. This particularity is due to the presence of a municipal executive on the left, then headed by the mayor SFIO, Pierre Boudot, borough councilor. The latter was therefore voluntary to accommodate refugees whose contingent arrived on 11 February 1939. This was made up of two extended families. One of 19 people came from
Arbeca
Arbeca is a village in the comarca of Les Garrigues, in the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain.
It is the third village of Les Garrigues in number of inhabitants, close to Les Borges Blanques and Juneda.
The population is about 2,500 and th ...
, in the
province of Lleida
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, in
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
. The other, 23 people, came from
Huesca, north of Zaragoza, in Aragon. All were cultivators
Mayors
See also
*
Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
References
Communes of Saône-et-Loire
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