Hurepoix
The Hurepoix is a landscape in the Ile-de-France in France and a former province at the time of the Ancien Régime . It is mainly located in what is now the Essonne department , but also partly in the Yvelines , Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne departments . The historic capital of the Hurepoix is Dourdan , but the modern urban center is Evry .
The Hurepoix is bordered to the north by Paris, to the west by the Rambouillet forest , to the east by the Seine , the forests of Fontainebleau in Gâtinais and Sénart in Brie , and to the south by the plains of the Beauce . The bottom of the Hurepoix consists of marl , sand and clay minerals . From the time when the Paris basin was covered by the sea, loess residues exist on some plateaus .
The landscape name Hurepoix occurs (also as Hérupe ) in French literature of the 13th century and here as the name for Franconian Neustria between the Seine and Loire . On the other hand, the Hurepoix does not appear in political reality, is only mentioned from this time as archdeaconate of the Archdiocese of Paris , without any geographical clarification being discernible. What is certain is that the Hurepoix comprised part of the city of Paris south of the Seine and began at the Petit Pont , that is to say on the eastern side of the Cardo of Paris , which led to this part of the city also being called the Hurepoix.
The main cities of the Hurepoix are:
literature
- Claude Seignolle: Le Folklore du Hurepoix. Traditions populaires de l'Île-de-France, ancienne Seine et Seine-et-Oise . Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7068-0661-3 . (later editions under the title: Traditions et superstitions aux portes de Paris )
- Jean-Pierre Gourgeron (Ed.): Le Hurepoix . Éditions Bourgeron, Paris.
- Pierre Marly: Arpajon et son canton. Avrainville, Bruyères-le-Châtel, Cheptainville, Égly, Guibeville, Leuville-sur-Orge, La Norville, Ollainville, Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon . 1979, ISBN 2-903097-01-1 .
- Elisabeth Grunberg: Evry, Ris-Orangis. Bondoufle, Courcouronnes, Lisses . 1980, ISBN 2-903097-03-8 .
- Jean-Pierre Bourgeron: Corbeil-Essonnes, Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil, Villabé . 1981, ISBN 2-903097-04-6 .
- Jean-Jacques Reynier: L'Hurepoix (Cahiers de la randonnée; Vol. 7). Book Rider, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84929-003-3 .
- Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 5: Hiera to Lucania . Dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 , column 230.
