Grandpré (Grandpré)
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| local community | Grandpré | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Ardennes | |
| Arrondissement | Vouziers | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 20 ′ N , 4 ° 52 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 08250 | |
| Former INSEE code | 08198 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2015 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Grandpré is a village and a former French commune with 410 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 .
With effect from January 1, 2016, Grandpré was merged with the municipality of Termes , creating the Commune nouvelle of Grandpré of the same name . The former municipalities have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality .
location
The place Grandpré is about 60 kilometers northeast of the city center of Reims on the right bank of the Aire . Neighboring places are:
- Beffu-et-le-Morthomme in the northeast,
- Champigneuille in the east
- Saint-Juvin and Chevières in the southeast
- Senuc in the south,
- Termez and Mouron in the southwest,
- Olizy primacy in the west and
- Longwé in the northwest.
history
Grandpré has long been known for its fair. In June 1791, while Louis XVI. was on the run with his family to Varennes , soldiers loyal to the king as well as groups of republican persecutors pretended to be visitors to the fair on the way to Grandpré to explain their nocturnal presence in the Châlons-sur-Marne area .
A year later, during the first coalition war, a republican army under Dumouriez in the village of Saint-Juvin near Grandpré blocked the pass road over the Argonne against the invading army under the Duke of Braunschweig . When an Austrian corps under Clerfait threatened to bypass from the north , Dumouriez withdrew unnoticed on the night of September 14, 1792 to join a second army under Kellermann . Braunschweig pursued him and a week later the French brought the Prussians to a halt in the cannonade at Valmy .
Attractions
- Castle of the Counts of Joyeuse
- Saint-Médard church with the tombs of the counts from the 17th century
Château de Grandpré: "Porte de la Justice"
Saint-Médard church
Personalities
- Jules Beaujoint , writer
literature
- Georges Pernoud, Sabine Flaissier (ed.): The French Revolution in eyewitness reports. Unabridged edition in text. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-01190-4 .
