Saint-Martin-du-Terre (Val-d’Oise)-Wikipedia

Saint-Martin-du-Terre is a French commune located in the Val-d’Oise department in the Île-de-France region.

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The town is located on a hillside, on a hillock bearing the forest of Carnelle, dominating the Plaine de France, about thirty kilometers north of Paris. Its geographical location at around 185 meters above sea level and culminating at 210 meters makes one of the highest municipalities in Île-de-France. She bears the nickname of Île-de-France balcony .

Saint-Martin-du-Terre is served by the old national road 309 (current RD 909) and by the Belloy-Saint-Martin station (located in the commune of Belloy-en-France), on the Transilian line , Paris-Nord branch-Luzarches. The station is served at the rate of an omnibus train per hour in off-peak hours and by a semi-direct train at half an hour (direct from Épinay-Villetaneuse in Sarcelles-Saint-Brice and Omnibus then) in the tip. It takes 36 to 38 minutes of journey from the Gare du Nord.

The Grande Randonnée 1 (GR1) trail passes through the forest west of the town, it extends to Presles to the West and Noisy-sur-Oise to the north.

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  Map of the town.

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  Land use

Hydrography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The Ponds of Carnelle, the Blue lake , the Sylph pond and the Small pond , appreciated by fishermen ^{[ first ]} , are old gypsum and marl careers flooded by local sources.

Typology [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Saint-Martin-du-Terre is an urban commune, because it is one of the dense communes or of intermediate density, within the meaning of the municipal gate of density of INSEE ^{[ Note 1 ] , [ 2 ] , [ 3 ] , [ 4 ]} .

In addition, the town is part of the Paris attraction area, of which it is a town in the crown ^{[ Note 2 ]} . This area brings together 1,929 municipalities ^{[ 5 ] , [ 6 ]} .

Attested in the form St. Martin’s hill In 1170 ^{[ 7 ]} .

The Tower of the telegraph Chappe was built in 1793 and the July 12, 1793 Tests took place between Ménilmontant-Écouen and Saint-Martin-du-Terre. These having been conclusive, Claude Chappe was able to build the first telegraph line by extending this section on Lille. There is no vestige left in Saint-Martin, except the watchtower, Chappe Telegraph Museum ^{[ 8 ]} .

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Administrative attachments

Prior to the law of July 10, 1964 ^{[ 9 ]} , the town was part of the department of Seine-et-Oise. The reorganization of the Paris region in 1964 informed that the municipality now belongs to the Department of Val-d’Oise and its arrondissement of Sarcelles after an effective administrative transfer to the first ^is January 1968 .

She was part of 1801 to 1967 from the canton of Luzarches de Seine-et-Oise. When setting up the Val-d’Oise, in 1967 she joined the canton of Viarmes ^{[ ten ]} . As part of the 2014 cantonal redistribution in France, this territorial administrative district has disappeared, and the canton is only an electoral district.

Saint-Martin-du-Tretre is part of the Gonesse district court (since the abolition of the Encrepanite Tribunal in Coise in February 2008 ^{[ 11 ]} ) and high instance as well as bridge trade ^{[ twelfth ] , [ 13 ]} .

Electoral attachments

For the departmental elections, the municipality has been a part since 2014 of the canton of pits

For the election of deputies, it is part of the second district of Val-d’Oise.

Intercommunality [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The municipality is a member of the Community of Municipalities Carnelle Pays de France, a public establishment for inter -municipal cooperation (EPCI) with own taxation created in 2003.

Local policy [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 2018 and 2019, the municipal budget could not be adopted by the municipal council following a crisis within the municipal majority, and was therefore settled by the prefect of Val-d’Oise after the opinion of the Regional chamber of accounts ^{[ 14 ] , [ 15 ]} .

During the second round of the 2020 municipal elections in Val-d’Oise were won by the DVG list led by Thierry Pichery with 4 votes in advance on that of the outgoing mayor DVD Jacques Féron, who obtained 376 votes respectively (50.27 % of the votes cast) and 372 votes (49.73%), abstention having come to 56.43% ^{[ 16 ]} . Thierry Pichery is therefore elected mayor by the municipal council of June 28, 2020 ^{[ 17 ]} , but the result of the elections is challenged by Jacques Féron and the administrative court cancels the municipal elections October 2020 ^{[ 18 ]} . .

Following this cancellation, confirmed by the Council of State the October 29, 2021 ^{[ 19 ]} , new municipal elections take place on January 23, 2022, which saw the success in the first round of the DVG list led by the Invalid mayor, Thierry Pichery, who collected 532 votes (59.51% of the votes), this time ahead of of 170 votes that of Jacques Féron (DVD, 362 votes, 40.49%). During this ballot, 50.38% of voters abstained ^{[ 20 ]} .

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Health [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

A medical house was fitted out in 2019 in the old post office ^{[ 23 ] , [ 24 ]} .

The Carnelle hospital, dependent on the Carnelle-Porte de l’Oise hospital group, closed in 2021 after a serious power cut that had required the evacuation of the patients in the middle of the night ^{[ 25 ] , [ 26 ]} .

The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities are published annually by INSEE. The census is now based on an annual information collection, successively concerning all the municipal territories during a period of five years. For municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants, a census survey relating to the entire population is carried out every five years, the legal populations of the intermediate years being estimated by interpolation or extrapolation ^{[ 27 ]} . For the municipality, the first exhaustive census falling within the framework of the new system was carried out in 2005 ^{[ 28 ]} .

In 2020, the town had 2,656 inhabitants ^{[ Note 3 ]} , decreased by 1.92%compared to 2014 (Val-d’Oise: +3.84%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.9%).

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Saint-Martin-du-Terre has two historic monuments on its territory:

• The Château de Franconville, rue Corentin Celton (registered in 1987 ^{[ 30 ]} ), built between 1876 and 1882 under the direction of the architect Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur for the Duke of Massa, inspired by the Château de Maisons-Laffitte and which had been converted into a sanatorium in 1929, was to be restructured in a luxury hotel complex; At the end of the 2010s, remains without use ^{[ thirty first ] , [ 32 ]}
• La Pierre Turquaise, Route de la Pierre-Turquaise in the Carnelle forest, plot 63 (classified as a historic monument by list of 1900 ^{[ 33 ]} ).

We can also point out:

• The Saint-Martin church, rue du Lieutenant-Baude, built at the request of the inhabitants of the parish, according to the plans drawn up by the architect of the king. As the parish register reveals, the work was paid by Claude d’O de la Barre which did not want it to be known. The church was consecrated the April 30, 1746 . Classic style, the building consists of a nave ending with a hemicycle choir, two aisles as well as a side bell tower rising above the first span of the southern aisle ^{[ 34 ]} .
• The Obelisk du Méridien de Paris, rue du Lieutenant-Baude, an obelisk monument erected in 1885, replaces a previous obelisk established on the orders of the king and marks the Paris meridian which passes through the Paris Observatory. Almost 3 m , the stele bears the inscription “Astronomical station attached to the geodetic network of La Méridienne de France 1866-1883” ^{[ 35 ] , [ 34 ]} .
• La Tour du Guet, Place de Verdun / rue du Lieutenant-Baude / Rue Serret, Troubadour style tower of 23 m High built in 1840 by André Jean Leroux, exchange agent, for her daughter Caroline Adélaïde Andréine Leroux. During its construction, the tower is located on the domain of the Château de Franconville, partly fragmented since. The tower, open to the public every Sunday morning and on request, offers an essential point of view on the region. The initiative union is installed there ^{[ 34 ]} .
• The covered Vivray wash house, on the edge of the forest, built in 1816 next to the Fontaine du Trou, named after an old fief ^{[ 34 ]} : Vivray. It is a small framework, with a wall on two sides, covered with a roof with two rumps covered with tiles. The interior has a basin, the surroundings of which are paved;
• The menhir located in the Carnelle forest at around 200 m In the south-east of the Turquaise stone dolmen.

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  Engraving in the covered alley representing a funeral goddess (?), Two torques above two breasts.

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  Obélisk of the Paris meridian.

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Personalities linked to the municipality [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• The Chappe brothers: Claude Chappe and Ignace Chappe carried out in 1793 optical telegraphs tests ^{[ 8 ]} ;
• Jacques Cyprien Normand (1772-1819), born in the commune, sergeant in the imperial army, injured in the battles of Echlingen (1805) and Friedland (1807), decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1809 (the only one the municipality to be included in the Léonore base).
• Henri Claudon (1864-1935), brigadier general, chief of the French military mission in the United States, lived there;
• Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), novelist, politician, and French intellectual of Vaudois origin lived there from 1802 to 1810;
• Louis Diémer (1843-1919), French pianist and composer, interpreted his works at the Château de Franconville;
• Léopold Bellan (1857-1936), industrialist and a French politician, lived there and was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Martin-du-Terre;
• Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), physicist, chemist, French historian and epistemologist, spent his holidays there during his youth ^{[ 36 ]} ;
• Jules Moigniez (1835-1894), animal sculptor, is dead and buried;
• Alfred de Musset, (1810-1857) French poet, spent a vacation at the Clignettes farm in Saint-Martin-du-Terre when he was a child ^{[ 37 ]}
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), composer ^{[Why ?]} ;
• Charles Simon (1882-1915), French sports leader, lived there (his name appears on the war memorial in the town) ^{[ Note 4 ]} ;
• Louis-Sulpice Varé (1803-1883), landscaper, creator of Bois de Boulogne was born there, dead and buried;
• Louis Vonelly (1883-1963), actor, died there;

• Saint-Martin is a place of the resistance where Lieutenant Baude lived. Arrested by the Gestapo at 21 rue de la Forêt-rue which now bears his name-he was shot at the eighty of Domont, where a monument was raised in memory of the 14 men who perished under German bullets the same day.

Saint-Martin-du-Terre in the arts [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The following threads had scenes shot in the town:

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Heraldry [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Saint-Martin-du-Terre

	Coat of arms	Azure with a golden lion, mantle of the same, the point summoned by a chappe telegraph of sand accosted by two quintefeuilles of sinople, to the chief also azure charged with a nail of the passion of silver accosted of Two golden lily flowers .
	Details	The official status of the coat of arms remains to be determined.

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Pierre Autin, Daniel Baduel, Yves Breton and Mr. Johnson, The heritage of the communes of Val-d’Oise: Saint-Martin-du-Terre , vol. II, Paris, Flohic Éditions, coll. “The heritage of the municipalities of France”, October 1999 , 1054 p. (ISBN  2-84234-056-6 , BNF  37193398 ) .
• Daniel Baduel, Chronology of mayors of Saint-Martin-du-Terre-1790 to 1995 , in: Bulletin de la J.P.G.F, Viliers-le-Bel, 2 ^{It is} quarter 1998.
• Daniel Baduel, Saint-Martin-du-Terre: a village, a story , Seugy, initiative union, 2000 , 361 p. (ISBN  978-2-9515713-0-3 )
• Daniel Baduel, Saint-Martin-du-Terre towards modernity: 1800-2000 , Initiative union of Saint-Martin-du-Terre, 2006 , 440 p. (ISBN  978-2-9515713-3-4 )
• Daniel BaHuel , The Château de Franconville-aux-Bois in Saint-Martin-du-Terre , Domont, 2014 , 172 p.
• Dominique Footard, Charles, has it mathi losing ( you. ), Val-d’Oise churches: Pays de France, Montmorency valley: ten centuries of sacred art at the gates of Paris , Gonesse, History and Archeology Society of Gonesse and the Pays de France, coll. “The heritage of the municipalities of France”, 2008 , 308 p. (ISBN  978-2-9531554-0-2 , BNF  41234042 ) .
• Hélène Pierre-Duhem ( pref. Maurice d’Ocagne), A French scientist: Pierre Duhem , Paris, Plon, 1936 , 240 p. (Salt B00egwojbujbija , read online )

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• ‘ Saint-Martin-du-Terre » , My town , Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities (consulted the August 3, 2020 ) .

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