Pacy-sur-Eure (Pacy-sur-Eure)
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| local community | Pacy-sur-Eure | |
| region | Normandy | |
| Department | Your | |
| Arrondissement | Evreux | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 ' N , 1 ° 23' E | |
| Post Code | 27120 | |
| Former INSEE code | 27448 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2017 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
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Pacy-sur-Eure is a village and a former French commune with 4,542 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Eure department in the Normandy region . It belonged to the arrondissement of Évreux and was the administrative seat of the canton of Pacy-sur-Eure .
With effect from January 1, 2017, the previously independent municipalities of Saint-Aquilin-de-Pacy and Pacy-sur-Eure were merged to form the " Commune nouvelle " Pacy-sur-Eure . The former municipalities have the status of a Commune déléguée in the new municipality . The administrative headquarters are located in Pacy-sur-Eure.
location
The place is about 80 kilometers northwest of Paris on the banks of the Eure River , a few kilometers southwest of the Seine . The national road 13 runs through Pacy-sur-Eure, and the A 13 motorway runs close to the village .
history
In 57 BC BC and again in AD 58, the Gallic inhabitants of the small market town rebelled against the Roman conquerors and occupiers. During the 2nd century they became part of the Gallo-Roman culture , which included the adoption of the language, laws, religion, customs and literature.
The 3rd century brought the place successively under the rule of the Delmaten , Batavians , Suebi and Franks . In the 4th century the Huns ravaged the region under Attila , a century later the Frankish king Clovis I became ruler of the area that became part of Neustria . The clashes between the parts of the empire Neustria and Austrasia after the death of Chlothar I shook the area from 561 onwards.
The division of the Franconian Empire in 843 favored the advance of the warlike Vikings , also known as Normans . On October 9, 852, they reached the Pacy area, upstream of the river, where they settled a few kilometers from the village. When they left in June of the following year, they left debris and a devastated land with no livestock. Then the construction of the castle began in Pacy.
To make peace, Charles III wed. in 911 his daughter with the Norman prince Rollo and gave him the part of Neustria facing the sea, which was then called Normandy . Pacy became part of the Duchy of Normandy in 924 after another agreement. In 980, Duke Richard I gave Pacy to his brother-in-law Herfast.
Until the middle of the 20th century there was a statue of Saint Aubin of Angers in the church of Saint-Aubin , which was considered to be miraculous. In the 19th century, Saint Helier was so popular in Pacy-sur-Eure that the clergymen removed his statue from the church because they believed the veneration was beyond normal religious standards. Since then it has lost its importance there.
The place has a train station on the Acquigny –Pacy-sur-Eure– Fermaincourt section of the Rouen – Orléans line, which was opened in 1885 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer d'Orléans à Rouen, opened on May 1, 1873 . At the same time, a branch line from Pacy-sur-Eure to Vernon was put into operation. In 1950 the passenger traffic was stopped, in 1989 the section around Pacy closed. Tourist trains of the Chemin de fer de la vallée de l'Eure museum railway have been operating there since 1996 .
Population development
- 1962: 2709
- 1968: 3213
- 1975: 3472
- 1982: 3650
- 1990: 4295
- 1999: 4.51
- 2017: 4542
Culture and sights
Pacy-sur-Eure is represented with three “flowers” in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The flowers are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved.
Personalities
- Henri Gault (1929–2000), journalist and gastronomy critic ( Gault-Millau )
Web links
- Homepage of the town of Pacy-sur-Eure
- Pacy-sur-Eure in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la Culture (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ adoption DRCL / B1 / 2016/111 of the prefecture on the formation of the commune nouvelle Pacy-sur-Eure from August 3, 2016
- ↑ La ville en bref on the Pacy-sur-Eure homepage, accessed on August 6, 2018
- ↑ Histoire de la ville on the Pacy-sur-Eure homepage, accessed on August 6, 2018
- ↑ Bernard Verwaerde: A quels saints se vouer? ... dans l'Eure . les saints protecteurs et guérisseurs. Editions Page de Garde, Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf 2001, ISBN 2-84340-191-7 , p. 53 + 66 (French).
- ↑ La gare ferroviaire on the Pacy-sur-Eure homepage, accessed on August 6, 2018
- ↑ Palmarès des villes et villages fleuris. (No longer available online.) Conseil National des Villes et Villages Fleuris, archived from the original on November 28, 2015 ; Retrieved on August 14, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
