Discover the city of Aix-en-Othe

Depart from the town of Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis, latitude 48.2214500 (N 48° 13’ 17”), longitude 3.7327800 (E 3° 43’ 58”)

It is located in the old workshops of the nicotine factory Agofroy. (created in 1914)

When it was built in the 12th century, it is a parish church. But it is gradually declining in favor of the church (Notre-Dame) which was born in the 16th century. Over the years, it is deteriorating. In 1830, the choir must be demolished. Fifteen years later, the west facade is redone to give it its current configuration. Again threatened in 1972, it is the efforts and generosity of rescue associations and Aixois that save it. It is registered in the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments.

Monument Millot (illustrious family of Aix in the nineteenth century). Commissioned by Mademoiselle Hermance Millot as a tribute to her three brothers, this oriental-style building is on three of the faces of the pyramid's support, bronzes representing the Millot brothers, including the famous Ernest Millot, second in the Jean Dupuis expedition of the River Red in Tonkin (1872-1873). - Monument Zambianchi (family Aix of the nineteenth). This mortuary chapel is typical of the funerary art of the nineteenth, with its draperies carved in hard stone.

Traces of the growth of the bonnetry industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Several factories and big bourgeois houses of chefs bonnetiers are still standing. Former factory Furgon (rue Schlenzé), with fireplace and adjoining master house. Old house of the Gabut family (rue Maréchal Foch), converted today into a dispensary. Old factory Gabut with fireplace, first open in the village. It now houses the House of Youth and Culture. Cité Coudrot Michaut, named after the industrialist who gave the land to his workers and employees who, helped by the Loucheur Act of 1919, built a modest home made of high and narrow houses.

Ordered as a tribute to the children who died for the country between 1870 and 1900. Its base bears a bronze soldier in field dress, a work of Desire Briden, a famous Trojan sculptor. Other names were added following the subsequent conflicts.

It was built in 1889, following the model built by architect Victor Baltard in Paris. Beautifully restored in 1997, the market houses every Wednesday morning the market of Aix-en-Othe, which is one of the 100 most beautiful markets in France.

Its construction began in the 16th century, with a majestic choir of remarkable height. The money coming to miss, the nave is modest. The vault of the transept crossing is decorated with paintings depicting the four Evangelists and their symbols. Each arm of the transept forms a chapel. That of the South, called the Rosary shelters a painting, work of Jacques de Letin, "The Donation of the Rosary" (XVIIth century). In the choir, the monumental altarpiece of the seventeenth century bears a very beautiful painting "The Assumption of the Virgin". The tower tower crowned by a dome to the imperial is covered with slates. She wears the dial, engraved in stone, the first clock of Aix-en-Othe (1680).

Made in 1858 according to the plans of Mr. Millot, architect, it forms a quadrilateral: with two inner courtyard squares, flanked by two covered arcades. Built in brown bricks, the building is lit by Angi white stone window frames: it is the typical example of Ottoman architecture of the 19th century. The stoop was added in 1925, the clock with the bell tower was offered in 1933.

Traces of the passage of the Trojan bishops

In the twelfth century, the land of Aix became episcopal lordship. From then on, the bishops of Troyes come to stay in their castle-fortress which is plundered several times (war of 100ans, wars of the Reformation,...). From this building, it remains today an entry in equipment Champagne with the housing of the lifting arms of the drawbridge. Joachim du Bellay, friend of Archbishop Antonio Caracciolo, stayed in this castle. He alluded to it in son of Prince de Melphe. From the middle of the sixteenth century, the bishops abandoned Aix and the castle deteriorates. In the seventeenth century, a building probably built by Monseigneur Mallier is visible from the street Georges Clemenceau. On the ground floor was the synodal hall, vandalized in the twentieth century by the formation of apartments. Along the rue Foch, between the Mallier castle and the boulevard Sebastopol, a series of old buildings are perhaps the old common of the castle.

The venerable lime tree that rises at the crossroads of Soyer and Maréchal Foch streets was planted there in 1920 to mark the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the Third Republic and the victory of 1918.

One can think that it is a place that the Gallo-Romans built in the 3rd century, a thermal establishment fed by the sources of Gifted and Echevêtre. At the end of the 19th century, the new owner completely remade the place to make an English park. Today municipal property, the park is open to the public and hosts events in the summer season.

Hikes & walks in Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis