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Place of origin | Courmes, Grasse |
Founder | Captain Huguenot Luc Corme, 1580 |
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The Courmes family (olim de Corma, Corme, Cormesse in the feminine and Courme [2] ) is a French family. Their origins come from the ancient French bourgeoisie [ fr ], Grasse, [3] [4] in Lower Provence.
His birthplace is the neighboring village of Courmes and his filiation followed and proven, in agnatic parentage, since 1580, and followed since 1176.
The name appears for the first time in the Gallia Christiana nova; [5] [6] on September 29, 1176, P. de Corma witnessed the signing of a charter between Bertrand de Grasse and Bertrand 1st, bishop of Antibes.
Marie-Thérèse Morlet defines it as a name of locality of origin and more precisely, in this category, a name of provenance, meaning "the one who comes from Courmes". [7]
Albert Dauzat describes the meaning of the name as old Provençal, corma, cornouille. A place planted with dogwood. [8]
The existence of a first family of this name was identified by Gilette Gauthier-Ziegler, Archivist-Paleographer. [9] She observes that "from the end of the 14th century to the end of the 15th the Courmes were part of the families which immutably passed on the functions of advisors to the Council of city".
The existence of a first family was confirmed more recently, in 2018, by French historian Thierry Pécout. [10]
If at first glance, this position in the city and in the Consilium ordinarium seems immutable, the Canadian historian professor Jean-Luc Bonnaud [11] allows us to detect a career evolution, "over several generations and most of whose solidarity is played out between the members of this bourgeoisie."
Some traces appear in the 13th century [a] , [b] this family held judicial positions and almost all the male members were lawyers. They begins from the world of regardatores [c] and notarius [d] become clavaire or baile-clavaire. [e] Their official functions allowing them to be well aware of the market for county farms and the process of renting them, they were able to raise impressive sums of money and take risks to rent the rights of the gabelle. [f] These wealthy officers are not yet a homogeneous social group, but this success allows them to send their children to pursue university studies. Once graduated, became Jurisperitus [g] , [h] with predicate of honor nobilis.
A beginning of filiation appears, in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the three sons of Lady Catherine Cormesse and her husband noble Honorat Corme, doctor of law, Jurisperitus [i] : Elzéar, [12] Pierre [13] and noble Jacques. [14]
The surviving Courmes family, whose lineage has been proven since the 16th century, comes in agnatic lineage from the Huguenot captain Luc Corme [15] and his wife Jane Henrique. The life of Luc is known mainly by the fact that he tested twice. [16] On April 14, 1580 [17] · [18] during a period of plague, and on November 21, 1589 [19] ·, [18] the day after the defeat of the Huguenots at Grasse.
On November 14, 1589, Baron de Vins, leader of the Leaguers in Provence, laid siege under the ramparts of Grasse. The city resisted for more than a week, attacked by two thousand infantrymen and a thousand cavalry. At the end of this bloody week Grasse capitulated. [20] Luc survived but he abjures. [21] [22]
The pre-eminence of the tannery for centuries of Grasse life is indisputable, all notable families participate profitably in it. Gaspard Courmes in 1690 became the first soapmaker in Grasse. [23] The Courmes houses undoubtedly represented by far the two most important businesses in Grasse, the soap factory maintains close relationships by its very nature, with the oil mill and the emerging perfumeryThe Courmes had warehouses in Grasse and Cannes. [24] [25] Claude-Marie Courmes' soap factory is the most modern. [26] The Courmes house, linked to major Marseille commerce, [27] invests in a commercial fleet and takes shares notably in the "Tartane Saint-Pierre", "L'avenir" and the "Rose-Louise". [28]
On the eve of the French Revolution, the Courmes were part of the 28 families of Grasse's high society, listed by Hervé de Fontmichel [ fr ]. [29]
Claude-Marie Courmes was part of a group of young royalists from Grasse, the "Children of the Sun" who notably formed a counter-revolutionary gathering on Ventôse 7, Year V (February 25, 1797). Member of the district electoral college in 1804, general councilor of Var from 1811 to 1833, sitting in the majority supporting the July monarchy. [30] Suspected in Year II, he entered the municipal council after Thermidor, he was prosecuted after the republican coup of Year V (1796-1797 September 4). [31]
Captaine Arthur Louis Courmes, . He fought during Franco-Prussian War. [32]
son of Arthur, Chief d'escadrons Marcel Louis Courmes, , École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (1905–1907), École de cavalerie, Saumur (1907–1909), he graduated Major out of 60. [33] He was a French aviator in 1915 during the World War I.
son of Marcel, Lieutenant Christian Courmes, , Siege of Calais (1940), prisoner in 1942 at the Colditz fortress. [34] [35] Escaped from Oflag X-C, not recaptured, he joined the French Forces of the Interior.
sister of Christian, Gilberte Courmes, wife of the Companions of Liberation Colonel Maurice Delage, , [36] X 1925 he joined General Leclerc's Force "L" and created the 13th engineering battalion of the 2nd Armored Division, taking command of which he took part in the Operation Overlord and the Liberation of Paris. [37] [38] [39]
On March 21, 1910, in Grez-sur-Loing, Chief d'escadrons Marcel Courmes married Louise Read Chadwick, [40] daughter of the American painter Francis Brooks Chadwick and the Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick.
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Father Louis Courmes, priest, "Bénéficier en l'Église Catédralle de Grasse" received arms in 1696. [41]
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