Saint-Eutrope

Saint-Eutrope
Part of Montmoreau
Town hall
Location of Saint-Eutrope
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Coordinates: 45°25′08″N0°06′44″E / 45.4189°N 0.1122°E / 45.4189; 0.1122 Coordinates: 45°25′08″N0°06′44″E / 45.4189°N 0.1122°E / 45.4189; 0.1122
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	Tude-et-Lavalette
Commune	Montmoreau
Area 1	2.67 km2 (1.03 sq mi)
Population  (2018) [1]	168
• Density	63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	16190
Elevation	114–186 m (374–610 ft) (avg. 183 m or 600 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Eutrope is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Montmoreau. ^[2]

Geography

16 Rue principale 2012

view of St Eutrope

Saint-Eutrope is a common South Charente located 2.5 km northwest of Montmoreau and 26 km south of Angoulême. It is a small town on the surface (less than 3 km2), and lying territory (3.5 km long and 0.5 km wide).

The village is 9 km southeast of Blanzac.

The town is crossed by two county roads. The main one is the D 10, drive to Montmoreau Blanzac and Chateauneuf, which runs through the town staying on the ridge. The other is the D 74 which joins the road to Angoulême Libourne (D 674) by Saint-Cybard and part of the town. It is also the route of Nonac in North Western Canada.2.

The nearest train station is in Montmoreau, served by TER to Angoulême and Bordeaux.

Hamlets and localities

The village is quite large, and the town hamlets are small and are only farms: Bel-Air, Large Stones, Maine Blanchard, in Calais, Perry. Chabreville Castle, not far from the town, is in the municipality of Courgeac.

Geology

The ground is limestone Cretaceous (chalk), but the peaks are covered with sand and clay tertiary deposit, and wood (or heath) have chestnuts and pines, calcifuges species.

The clay of the ground meant that Saint-Eutrope was a renowned place of manufacture of solid pottery until the 20th century, there was also an iron mine ^[3]

History

In the early sixteenth century, St. Eutrope de la Lande was a priory. ^[4] A Romanesque church dates from the twelfth century.

St. Eutropius was in the manor of Montmoreau dependent Angoumois, and following the religious wars, Francis has installed persecuted Catholic families, as well as Saint-Laurent-de-Belzagot. ^[5]

Saint-Eutrope has long been famous for its pottery. In the eighteenth century, no fewer than 30 families working there, with 25 fours. Saint-Eutrope specialized in the manufacture of large pieces: mass graves, Ponnes and flagons, as well as "faience pebbles" yellow glaze characteristics of certain workshops in the locality. This craft has reached its peak in 1841 with 140 potters. After the 1914–18 war, they were only a dizaine. ^[6]

The clay was then briefly operated as a building material (brickworks in Bel-Air, adopted in 1986).

Name

The first mention of the place appears in 1523: Sanctus Eutropius of Landa. ^[7] Saint Eutrope was the first bishop of Saintes, and his relics were the subject of pilgrimages in the Middle age. ^[8]

During the French Revolution, Saint-Eutrope was called La Poterie, and Utrope.

Dialects

Although the dialectal limit is 10 km to the east, the town also has the distinction of being a small enclave Occitan (Limousin dialect) language of oïl. ^{[9] [10]}

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 282 —     1800 228 −2.99% 1806 274 +3.11% 1821 279 +0.12% 1831 297 +0.63% 1841 292 −0.17% 1846 306 +0.94% 1851 306 +0.00% 1856 258 −3.35% 1861 262 +0.31% 1866 242 −1.58% 1872 201 −3.05% 1876 194 −0.88% 1881 196 +0.21% 1886 200 +0.40% 1891 210 +0.98% 1896 202 −0.77%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 195 −0.70% 1906 202 +0.71% 1911 192 −1.01% 1921 174 −0.98% 1926 187 +1.45% 1931 159 −3.19% 1936 146 −1.69% 1946 142 −0.28% 1954 173 +2.50% 1962 157 −1.21% 1968 137 −2.25% 1975 164 +2.60% 1982 164 +0.00% 1990 192 +1.99% 1999 169 −1.41% 2007 157 −0.92% 2012 179 +2.66%
Source: EHESS [11] and INSEE (2007–2012) [12]

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2018, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 29 June 2016 (in French)
3. Jules Martin-Buchey, Géographie historique et communale de la Charente, édité par l'auteur, Châteauneuf, 1914–1917 (réimpr. Bruno Sépulchre, Paris, 1984), 422 p., p. 327
4. Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, Volume 35, (par Société des archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, 1905), p. 44
5. Jean-Hippolyte Michon, Statistique monumentale de la Charente, Paris, Derache (réimprimé en 1980 par Bruno Sépulchre, (Paris), 1844), p334
6. Jules Martin-Buchey, Géographie historique et communale de la Charente, édité par l'auteur, Châteauneuf, 1914–1917 (réimpr. Bruno Sépulchre, Paris, 1984), 422 p., p. 327
7. Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, Volume 35, (par Société des archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis, 1905), p. 44
8. Joël Guitton et al., Les chemins de Saint-Jacques en Charente, éditions Sud Ouest, 2010, p254.
9. La langue occitane, Pierre Bec, Que sais-je, p. 11 : « Le village de St-Eutrope enfin (départ. Charente, entre Ribérac et Angoulême) forme une enclave limousine en domaine français. »
10. Une colonie limousine en Saintonge, Saint-Eutrope, par Anatole Boucherie (éd. Maisonneuve, 1876)
11. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Eutrope, EHESS. (in French)
12. Populations légales 2012, INSEE

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