MOUANS SARTOUX

HISTORY, HERITAGE TO KNOW
Initially Mouans Sartoux and are two distinct communities. 1350 to as many villages in the region, and Mouans Sartoux were dropped (insecurity plague ...). In 1496, Pierre Grasse, then lord of Mouans brought 60 families of "Figon" of the region of Genoa to repopulate the territory and pass them with a compact housing. At that time the village is built. In Spring 1858, Mouans Sartoux officially born. Napoleon III brought together 2 Communities.
Common rural tradition, the economy Mouans Sartoux has for long been turned to agriculture (vineyards and olive trees). In the 18th century, the education of silkworms was also one of economic activities Mouans. Indeed on the cadastre of 1738 bushes are included in different districts and, in particular in the area of the large room, belonging to the Lord Mouans of a building, Magnanerie is "to take silk." She worked until the 40. More recently plants perfume (Jasmine and Rose de Mai). There are few fields of flowers near the Tower of Loure that it is the detection of forest fires (Tanneron). The Chapel is the fifteenth century private sphere (White Penitents).
We place du Général Leclerc, where there were many lime kilns Commune decided that the butcher because the administrative authorities were not hygienic. In 1861 the surface is recovered in the public square for drying grain that people came to wash the fountain. This place will be tiled in the same year. Before the Town Hall, the Place du Grand Pré (Jean Jaurès and De Gaulle) was a former threshing floor and drying wheat. Trays to wash it still exist against the wash. In 1850 the town acquired a new field for a beating, the large became public.
I-THE CHURCH
When in 1496 Peter de Grasse decided to repopulate the area, he built a new village close to the Priory of rural St. Andrew. From this priory that will build the new church Mouans. Built in the late 15th century, it will keep St Andrew as surname. The church underwent many changes over the centuries. One of the most important was the construction of the steeple in 1760. In 1861 considered too small for the number of parishioners, it will be a larger image. The simple facade previously, with two rows of Genoa, was extended with a monumental pediment and columns that give it a more important aspect. The wall paintings date from 1967/1968 and P Camilleri.
II - THE FOUNTAINS
The water shortage is acute in the summer the town. In 1873 the City Council decides to establish a fountain on the church square and a water concession in the channel Siagne. Total cost 2 000 F, it is added to the existing fountain on the Place du Grand Pré or Place Jean Jaurès. (4 guns).
III -THE TOWN HALL
The City Hall building was built in 1859. II replaces the old Town Hall in the village became obsolete. On 13 May 1866 City Council request the creation of a post office. In 1871 this office is not installed while the town is bisected by the railroad and that the need is felt. In 1887 after building a school post office is moved to ground floor of City Hall where the school boys. It is supplemented by the telegraph office the same year. The motto that you can see on the sundial in Provençal means: "That this time is best for all."
IV- PLACE SUZANNE of VILLENEUVE
Suzanne de Villeneuve, widow of Pompey in Grasse, Huguenot (assassinated in 1588) who defended the Village in 1592 against the Duke of Savoy, who came to punish people for their commitment to Henri III. It destroyed the castle. It forced him to keep his promise to pay to compensate 4000.écus, having continued in the plains of Cagnes. On the Place of the Church can be seen on the bourgeois houses two types of door frame of the sixteenth century with arc pan cut.
V . train station
Renovated in 1998 to serve as homes for young people, pending the return of the train on the 1st track electrified France (test) in 1911 between Grasse and Cannes.
VI. The castle
Built in the late fifteenth century or early 16th, the Castle of Mouans remained the property of Grasse then until 1750 he went to Villeneuve. During the Revolution, the castle underwent Mouans fate of many mansions. This is "the good town of Grasse, which will destroy a large extent. It became the property of the family of Sartoux Durand in the early 19th century that will be rehabilitated. It will be rebuilt following the original plans. It will retain its architecture and its three triangular towers, its inner courtyard. Castle Mouans Sartoux has become thanks to the "Espace de l'Art Concret" a center for contemporary art and permanent international reputation. In the former stables of the Castle, we find: a museum about rural life of "yesteryear.
VII. THE LAVOIR
II was built in 170, Women do laundry and re-washing the world. They take the laundry in a sheet called "Flourier. The linen is washed in a hole in the ground before washing with water and ashes. They wash them in the wash.