Ambleville () is a former commune in the

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department in the

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region of southwestern

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. On 1 January 2022, it was merged into the new commune of

Lignières-Ambleville Lignières-Ambleville () is a commune in the Charente department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It is the result of the merger, on 1 January 2022, of the communes of Lignières-Sonneville and Ambleville.Charente Charente (; Saintongese: ''Chérente''; ) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, and also the r ...

located 7 km south of Segonzac, 18 km southeast of

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, and 31 km west of

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. The area of the commune of Ambleville is about 500 hectares. The village of Ambleville is also 7 km east of Archiac, 10 km north of Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire and 14 km west of Chateauneuf-sur-Charente. The main route to the commune is the D699 road from Angoulême to Archiac,

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, and

Jonzac Jonzac (; ) is a commune of the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. The historian Jean Glénisson (1921–2010) was born in Jonzac as well as the philosopher Jean Hyppolite (1907–1968). Geography The r ...

via Châteauneuf. This former national road was part of the road from

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to Mirambeau in

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. The D44 road goes northwest towards Cognac via

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and goes south towards

Barbezieux Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire () is a Communes of France, commune in the Charente Departments of France, department, Southwestern France. The commune was formed in 1973 by the merger of the former communes Barbezieux and Saint-Hilaire.IGN Map on the

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The nearest railway stations are Chateauneuf-sur-Charente (in the direction of

) and Jarnac Charente (in the direction of Saintes and

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) both located 14 km from the town. The

station is 21 km from the town and has services to Bordeaux Saint-Jean in one direction as well as

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and

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in the other direction.

Hamlets and localities

The population is distributed in twenty hamlets or "villages" - the term used in ''Saintonge'' and the South-West of France. The town has a few houses grouped around the church. The two major population centres are: ''le Château'' and ''la Motte'' both near the village near the road to Chateauneuf. The town hall is located at ''le Château''. ''La Voûte'' is the highest point in the commune in the north with other hamlets of ''Chez Philbert'' and ''La Bertillère'' in the south of the commune, ''le Guineuf'' on the Collinaud stream etc.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Geology and terrain

The commune is made up of

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)

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 ...

limestone, which covers a large part of the South Charente. The valleys are covered by

alluvium Alluvium (, ) is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings. Alluvium is also sometimes called alluvial deposit. Alluvium is ...

from the recent

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period. The communal land has a quite hilly relief which rises gradually to reach, at its northern end near the hamlet of ''la Voûte'', a height 95 m. The small Collinaud valley in the south of the commune is located where the town and the main road are. The lowest point is 34 m at the western edge of the commune along the Collinaud. The town is located at the tip of a small promontory in the valley and is 40 m above sea level.

Hydrography

The town is bounded on the south by the ''Collinaud'' stream which flows from the town of Bonneuil. It is a tributary of the Né and a sub-tributary of the

. Two small intermittent streams descend from both sides of the Castle to join the Collinaud near the village. Further west the ''Font Moreau'' rises while further east ''les Boulots'' flows down from

Sonneville Sonneville is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune Rouillac.

Climate

As for three-quarters of the department in the south and west, the climate is

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Aquitaine.

Toponymy

In the absence of old spellings, we can relate Ambleville to the homonymous commune of Ambleville in Val-d'Oise,

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and Charles Rostaing, ''Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Librairie Guénégaud, 1979, Paris, , passage 14a attested in the Latinized form of ''Amblenvilla'' in 1209.Ernest Nègre, ''General Toponymy of France'' (Read online)
/ref> The name has a medieval source in ''-ville'' which is a toponymic suffix meaning "rural area" or "village", from the Gallo-Roman ''villa'' meaning "rural area", itself derived from the Latin ''

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''. The first part is, as is usually the case, a Germanic personal name. It can be ''Ambla'' - a woman's name, or ''Amblinus'' - a man's name, or alternatively ''Amelinus''. These anthroponyms are well represented in northern France (see Amblainville,

Ablancourt Ablancourt () is a commune in the Marne department in northeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of the 610 communes in the French department of Marne. The communes cooperate i ...

, Amblimont, etc.). The radical ''amal-'' is found in the names ''Amélie'' and ''Amaury''. La Motte is a medieval place name meaning "butte" or "mound of earth", attested in

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in the form ''motta'' in 836, for a term of pre-Latin origin ''*mutt(a)''. This term also meant once a stately home or castle.

History

The commune has been occupied since ancient times as proto-historic ditches have been found: circular at ''Moulin du Guineuf'' and oval at a place called ''le Guineuf'' - a rounded shape that may be a

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which has been leveled - near the Ambleville church to the east. In the west of the commune fragments of

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vases have been found. The land of Ambleville was most important and very old, extending over five parishes. ''Ramnulphe d'Ambleville'' lived there in 1239 and ''Arnaud d'Ambleville'' was quoted in a judgment of 1311. An Ambleville lord was a herald for

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. The lands of Ambleville then passed into the Archiac family. the ''Marquise of Archiac'' left a daughter, ''Jacquette'', who married ''Pierre Jourdain'' and transmitted to him the ownership of Ambleville. In 1548 during the salt tax revolt, ''François Jourdain'' was Baron of Ambleville. Wanting to stand up to sedition he only succeeded in rousing the people against him and was forced to flee. The insurgents seized the Ambleville castle, set it on fire, and reduced it to ashes. The Jordan family was succeeded by the Jussac family, the best known of whom was François de Jussac, who became captain of fifty men at arms under the orders of the king, then Governor of

and lieutenant-general of

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and

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. In 1621 he lent his support to the Duke of Épernon to raise a body of troops to besiege the city of

. Towards 1643, the Jussac family sold Ambleville to ''Henri d'Albret'', Squire of

and Count of Miossens who, a few years later, assigned this land to his third son, ''François Amanieu'' who was better known as the ''Chevalier d'Albret''. The latter never married and was killed in a duel by ''Mr. Saint-Léger Corbon'' and Ambleville passed to the house of Pons represented by ''Charles Amanieu'' the Marquis d'Albret who was his nephew. He shot himself on 5 August 1678 and his widow remarried to Charles, Viscount of Marsan who was the youngest son of the

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. She left all her property to her second husband whose second wife was ''Thérèse de Goyon-Matignon''. Several children were born of this union including ''Jacques-Henri de Lorraine-Lixin'' who received a share of the land of Ambleville. He was a General who was killed on 2 June 1734 at the Siege of Philippsbourg in Germany. Ambleville was then sold to ''Mr. de Monconseil'', a Lieutenant-General whose daughter Cécile married '' Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet'', Colonel of the Grenadiers of France. The marriage contract was signed by the royal family. Appointed the Member for

in the States General in 1789, he wholeheartedly accepted the Revolution and was appointed Minister of War on 4 August 1789. During

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he was accused of ''moderation'', then arrested, sentenced to death, and executed on 28 April 1794. Under

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his son became a

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and Ambassador in

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. During the Revolution, the rich lordship of Ambleville was completely dismantled. The new authorities did not want Ambleville to retain its political and economic hegemony over the region. It was therefore decided that it would be the smallest commune in the area, keeping only the core of the ancient lordship. A Tree of Liberty - a lime tree - was planted along the Archiac road towards the village of La Motte. It was cut down in the 1980s. The commune of Ambleville was provided with a notarial study located in the village of Guineuf. This study was transferred to Segonzac in 1924 after the death in 1919 of the last notary, Alcide Renaud.

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Ambleville ;Mayors from 1942 The commune of Ambleville was part of the Canton of Lignières then since 1801 that of Segonzac and of the district then the arrondissement of Cognac. In 1995 the commune joined the Community of Communes of the Grande Champagne with 11 other communes in the Canton de Segonzac. In 2011 the municipal budget voted on 4 April 2011 set the local tax rate at 7.46% for the housing tax, 18.80% for housing tax and 45.07% for property tax on buildings. The unified business tax (TPU) was set at the rate of 15.24% as seen in all other communes in the Community of communes of Grande Champagne which is then distributed throughout the territory.

Population

The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Amblevillois'' or ''Amblevilloises'' in French.

Distribution of Age Groups

Percentage Distribution of Age Groups in Ambleville and Charente Department in 2017 Source: INSEEÉvolution et structure de la population en 2017: Commune d'Ambleville (16010)
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Economy

Agriculture

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is almost the only resource of the Ambleville economy. A dozen farms were identified in 2011. Approximately 305 hectares of vineyards are planted which is roughly 60% of the communal territory. Six growers sell their production directly.

Shops

A rural baker provides a mobile service in the surrounding hamlets. There is also a bar and a street pizzeria. Trades in Ambleville are a carpenter-cabinetmaker, a bricklayer, a plasterer, and a garage for cars and agricultural machinery.

Tourism

A rural cottage (4 stars) welcomes tourists to the village of Guineuf.

Facilities, services and local life

Education

The school is an intercommunal educational grouping (RPI) between Ambleville,

Lignières-Sonneville Lignières-Sonneville () is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2022, it was merged into the new commune of Lignières-Ambleville.Criteuil-la-Magdeleine. Lignières-Sonneville accommodates the kindergarten and both Ambleville and Criteuil-la-Magdeleine have elementary schools. The RPI is managed by a SIVOS (School-related Intercommunal Union) which was established in 1979 and took the name of SIVOS of the ''Great South Champagne''. The association brings together these three communes and that of Saint-Palais-du-Né which joined in 2007 and where there has been another school since 2006.

Health

The town has a nurse located in the village of La Motte. Doctors, pharmacy and all other types of service are available in nearby communes. There are many childminders in the commune.

Other services

The commune is connected to the broadband network for Internet connections. The high speed network should have arrived in 2012. There has been foster care for three elderly residents since 2009.

Associations

Communal associations are: *ACDLA (Cultural Association for Relaxation and Leisure of Ambleville) *Association of Parents of Students of RPI Great Southern Champagne *Hostel Amblevillois *Ambleville Hunting Society *Association of Blood Donors

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has many sites that are registered as historical monuments: *A Farmhouse at Le Chateau (1) (19th century) *A Farmhouse at Le Chateau (2) (19th century) *A Farmhouse at Le Chateau (3) (19th century) *A Farmhouse at Le Chateau (4) (19th century) *A Farmhouse at La Bertillière (1)(1861) *A Farmhouse at La Bertillière (2) (1861) *A Fortified Chateau (14th century) *A Manor at La Voûte (18th century) *A Farmhouse at La Roumade (19th century) *A Farmhouse at Chez-Guineux (19th century) *A Farmhouse at Chez le Court (18th century) *A Farmhouse at Chez-Bouyer (18th century) *The War Memorial at Le Chateau (1920) is unique in this region where the majority of buildings were built in stone. It is made of dark gray

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granite. *The Square at Le Chateau (18th century) *The Market Building at Le Chateau (19th century) *The School at Le Chateau (19th century) *Farmhouses (18th-19th centuries) ;Other sites of interest *The Chateau of Ambleville was built in the 14th century and was burned by insurgents opposed to the

Gabelle The ''gabelle'' () was a very unpopular French salt tax that was established during the mid-14th century and lasted, with brief lapses and revisions, until 1946. The term ''gabelle'' is derived from the Italian ''gabella'' (a duty), itself orig ...

(salt tax) in 1548. It was rebuilt later at Le Chateau. Remains of the original walls still existed in the middle of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century at a place called Le Vieux Chateau (The Old Castle). There is no trace today. *The commune has six old

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s (Public Laundries) with the most interesting being those at ''la Voûte'' and ''La Roumade''. There are also many wells including two remarkable ones on two private properties at Guineuf. Image:Ambleville1.1.JPG, A Well Image:Ambleville1.2.JPG, Another Well Image:Ambleville1.9.JPG, A Pump Image:Ambleville1.5.JPG, A Wayside Cross

Religious Heritage

The commune has several religious sites that are registered as historical monuments: *The Church of Saint Peter The Church of Saint Peter (12th century) was the main element of a Benedictine priory. It was part of the former diocese of Saintes and belonged to the abbey of Baignes. Its

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, which has no

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, covered by a ceiling is next to a false square from the 11th century. The

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with a flat

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is surmounted by a vault from the late 15th century mounted on heavy

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. Only the choir has three windows, two of them - the north and the south - are broken and one has three transoms and flamboyant latticework. The side walls are pierced with fake square arches leading into two Gothic chapels with two bays extending along the nave. The South has three keyhole arches and three columns with capitals decorated with small leaves from the end of the 14th century. The Cylindrical

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with ornate ring moldings dates from the 16th century. The facade has a door and three open arches. The first floor is decorated with three arches. The north chapel has a door with curly brackets on its west wall. Buttresses reinforce the corners of the chapels and the chevet. The rectangular bell tower is on the first floor with its faces pierced with two bays. The second floor has a rectangular bay and is surmounted by a cornice and a hipped roof on four sides. The bell, dating from 1639 and classed as a Historic Monument in 1944, unlike many bells, was not melted during the

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to make weapons despite the quite revolutionary spirit of the people. The inhabitants of the commune were attached to their bell and its particular tone and convinced the new revolutionary authorities to maintain it, saying it was useful to them to tell them the changes in the new Republican calendar. The cemetery is located near the church. Previously, it was in front of the church where the current square is. It was moved in the early 1930s to help create the current square which was itself renovated in 2007. The patron saint of the parish of Ambleville is Saint Eutropius, the first bishop of Saintes and a martyr, whose feast is celebrated on the last Sunday of April as his birthday was on the 30th. *A Wayside Cross (19th century) *A Cemetery Cross (19th century) *The Cemetery (20th century) *The Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter (12th century) now the parish church. There are many items in the priory that are registered as historical objects: *A Bronze Bell (1639) *The Furniture in the Priory *A Bronze Bell (1639) *A Flowery Vase (19th century) *A Flowery Vase (19th century) *A

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(1798-1809) *A

Chalice A chalice (from Latin 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek () 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the ...

(1819-1838) *A

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, Stole, Maniple, Chalice cover, and body purse (19th century) *A Statue: Virgin and child (19th century) *A

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(19th century) *A

Baptismal font A baptismal font is an Church architecture, ecclesiastical architectural element, which serves as a receptacle for baptismal water used for baptism, as a part of Christian initiation for both rites of Infant baptism, infant and Believer's bapti ...

(19th century) *An Immersion

(16th century) *A

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(17th century) *An

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(19th century) *A

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window: Sacred Heart (19th century) *A

window: 4 Saints (19th century)

Notable People linked to the commune

*Jacques Roux, vicar of Ambleville from April 1790 to January 1791, took King

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to the scaffold. He was nicknamed the "Red Priest" and served as a model for

Jean Jaurès Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; ), was a French socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became a social democrat and one of the first possibi ...

.Journal l'Humanité August 2009