Chuffilly-Roche

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Chuffilly-Roche
Chuffilly-Roche coat of arms
Chuffilly-Roche (France)
Chuffilly-Roche
region Grand Est
Department Ardennes
Arrondissement Vouziers
Canton Attigny
Community association Crêtes Préardennaises
Coordinates 49 ° 27 '  N , 4 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '  N , 4 ° 36'  E
height 87-128 m
surface 7.67 km 2
Residents 75 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 10 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 08130
INSEE code 08123

Town hall ( Mairie ) of Chuffilly-Roche

Chuffilly-Roche is a French commune with 75 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Vouziers and the canton of Attigny .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 2009 2016
Residents 132 126 116 84 100 91 87 91 76
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Personalities

  • Arthur Rimbaud lived in the Roche district. His mother, Vitalie Rimbaud, ran the family's farm here. The presence of her maternal family, Cuif, has been documented as early as the 16th century. Rimbaud wrote some of his works here, including A Time in Hell (Une Saison en enfer) and The Drunken Ship (Le bateau ivre) right near the local wash house, where he liked to stay. A few months before his death in late 1891, he spent a few weeks in Roche as a seriously ill patient after cancer surgery.

From the courtyard of the Cuif, which was one of the largest in the village, only part of the wall can be seen today. The property was inherited from Rimbaud's mother, Vitalie Cuif, to the poet's sister, Isabelle, and her husband, Paterne Berrichon. Paul Claudel mentions this in one of his diaries in 1912. Finally, during the First World War, the farm was requisitioned by German troops who established the headquarters there. When the German occupiers gave up the farm on October 12, 1918, they blew it up. Opposite the house, which is now called the Rimbaud House, along the route départementale , a small part of the wall of the courtyard has been preserved. Two stone pillars mark the entrance to the old Cuif orchard and a signpost the way to the public wash house. Roche is on the Rimbaud-Verlaine route of the Committee for Tourism of the Ardennes ( Comité Départemental du Tourisme des Ardennes ).

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