Amigny-Rouy

Amigny-Rouy
The old railway station
Coat of arms
Amigny-Rouy
Location within Picardy region  Amigny-Rouy
Coordinates: 49°36′38″N 3°18′19″E / 49.6106°N 3.3053°ECoordinates: 49°36′38″N 3°18′19″E / 49.6106°N 3.3053°E
Country	France
Region	Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie
Department	Aisne
Arrondissement	Laon
Canton	Chauny
Intercommunality	Chauny-Tergnier
Government
• Mayor (2008–2020)	André Didier
Area^1	13.08 km^2 (5.05 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	728
• Density	56/km^2 (140/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	02014 / 02700
Elevation	44–147 m (144–482 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Amigny-Rouy is a French commune in the department of Aisne in the Picardy region of northern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aizyjois or Aizyjoises.^[1]

Geography

Amigny-Rouy is located some 30 km south of Saint Quentin and 25 km west by north-west of Laon. The commune is accessed by road D7 from Sinceny in the west passing through the heart of the commune and continuing east to Saint-Gobain. The D53 road comes from Condren in the north-west passing through the village and continuing south to Barisis. There is also a network of country roads throughout the commune. Most of the commune is farmland however there is a large forested area in the south forming part of an extensive forested area outside the commune. There are no other hamlets or villages in the commune.

The Oise river forms the northern and north-western border of the commune and the Ruisseau de Servais with numerous tributaries passes from east to west through the northern portion of the commune into the Oise. The Ru de Greve flows through the south of the commune. There are also a number of small lakes in the commune.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Heraldry

Blazon: Or, a bend sinister chequy a plomb argent and azure of 6 tires, at 1 three boar's heads sable tusked argent erased in gules; at 2 a cross fleury the same.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Amigny-Rouy^[3]

Mayors from the French Revolution to 1935 

From	To	Name
1792	1794	Jean Louis Langlet
1794	1812	Jean Lefevre
1813	1815	Bertin
1815	1816	Debrie
1816	1825	Antoine Lemaire
1825	1831	Louis Augustin Carlier
1831	1848	Jean Louis Demilly
1848	1849	Louis Delaporte
1849	1849	Xavier Joncourt
1849	1852	Germain Duhenoy
1852	1870	Louis Hector Lefevre
1870	1878	Jean Louis Lamotte
1878	1879	Evariste Guerin
1879	1880	Lucien Guille
1880	1888	Henri Delaporte
1888	1892	Auguste Maruy
1892	1905	Joseph Debrie-Demilly
1905	1908	Gustave Dufresne
1908	1913	Jean Baptiste Daulle
1913	1920	Lucien Langlet
1920	1924	Amédée Hain
1924	1929	Théophile Delaporte
1929	1935	Gaston Debrie

The old railway station in 1909

The old Rue de la Gare

Mayors from 1935

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1935	1944	Eugène Coffin
1944	1945	Lucien Lefevre
1945	1947	Philémon Rousset
1947	1949	Henry Triou
1949	1950	Paul Demilly
1950	1971	René Carpentier
1971	1977	Odette Gomont
1977	1983	Marceau Lecoeur
1983	1989	Hubert de Wilde
1989	2001	Michel Valeggi
2001	2020	André Didier	DVD

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 728 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
1,450	1,616	1,447	1,431	1,498	1,513	1,495	1,455	1,370

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
1,219	1,136	1,090	1,007	962	872	866	781	777

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
749	720	662	396	627	495	464	540	512

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2009	-	-
504	546	515	622	693	626	728	-	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Religious heritage

The Parish Church contains a Stained glass window: Christ on the Cross (16th century)which is registered as an historical object.^[4]

Notable people linked to the commune

• Gédéon Poizot, Lieutenant French Forces of the Interior (FFI), (born 26 June 1907 Amigny-Rouy - died 10 August 1944, at the edge of the Busigny woods), alias "Poulain-Germain," hero and martyr of the Resistance (Maquis Mazinghem), killed on 10 August 1944 by the Vichy Milice.^[5]
• Elysee Darthenay Alban, born 3 January 1913 in Montrouge, a graduate of the Lyautey Class from Saint-Cyr and became a lieutenant in the 4th RIM of Auxerre. He was under instruction with his Battalion at Amigny-Rouy from 23 October 1939 to 10 May 1940. He married in Nuits-Saint-Georges on 3 January 1940 and his wife joined him in hiding from the military authorities in Amigny-Rouy. He was cited on the order of the Division and received the Croix de Guerre for his bravery in combat defending the Haubourdin (Lille) bridges from 28 to 31 May 1940. As a prisoner at Hoyeverda he failed twice to escape and was transferred to the disciplinary prison of Colditz from where he escaped on 6 July 1943. In December 1943 he made himself available to the Resistance in Lyon and was assigned to the FFI of Bourg-en-Bresse in January 1944. In early February 1944 he was head of the Maquis in the Secret Army of Jura. Arrested on 7 April 1944 by the Gestapo, he was tortured until 11 April but did not speak. His silence saved 800 Maquis including Colonel Romans-Petit, leader of the Secret Army of Ain and Savoie. He left two orphans. On 26 April 1945 General de Gaulle made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In 1974 a class in Saint-Cyr was named after him, a hero the Resistance 1939-1945, who had only five months of family life which he spent illegally in Amigny-Rouy.

Sports Associations

• Football club^[6]

See also

• Communes of the Aisne department

External links

• Amigny-Rouy on the old National Geographic Institute website (French)
• Amigny-Rouy official website (French)
• 40000 Bell Towers website (French)
• Amigny-Rouy on Lion1906
• Amigny-Rouy on Google Maps
• Amigny-Rouy on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (French)
• Rouy and Amigny on the 1750 Cassini Map
• Amigny-Rouy on the INSEE website (French)
• INSEE (French)

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. Inhabitants of Aisne (French)
2. Google Maps
3. List of Mayors of France (French)
4. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM02000016 Stained glass window: Christ on the Cross (French)
5. See page: "Hommage aux résistants disparus" on the website: A Man of the Maquis of Mazinghien 1942-1944 (French)
6. Football Club