www.champanelle.net The Lacemakers Saint-Genès-Champanelle 63122 France

Verbal lawsuits reporting
the deputy nomination of the commune
of Saint-Genès-Champanelle

The statements of the 5 villages referred to above,
are composed of four layers which you will find hereafter.

Of this official report established by Mr. Cohendy royal notary , we can extract a quantity

of informations. The first mentioned is the name of the "Syndic" of the time [the burgomaster, undoubtedly], one named Claude Astier.

The following data is the number of fires mentioned for each village :

Manson 42 fires

Thedes 15 fires

Champeau 4 fires

Berze 27 fires

St genest champanelle 3 fires

Beaune 42 fires

Chatras 22 fires

Parredon 17 fires

These indications allow us for 1789, a demographic classification of the importance of

quoted villages. [it misses Laschamps and Nadaillat which formed part of other parishes,

curiously, the villages of Fontfreyde and Theix are not quoted in this document. Their inhabitants

having perhaps sent their own deputies in Clermont-Ferrand or proximity of the castle of

lord of the time had dissuaded them to make the step which the other villages achieved]

The total of fires was indicated in margin by the notary is a number of 91 fires.

Idications are given to us on the orthography of the names of the villages and one can

to compare the possible evolutions :

Chatras/Chatrat, Berze/Berzet, Parredon/Pardon, Thedes/Thèdes, St Genest/St Genès.

Champanelle had already its orthography of today.

A notice is essential as for the people signatories of the document, they are only men !

The women, at that time did not have apparently a say and the voting rights female

were not yet on the agenda.

On the third layer appears the name of the deputies chosen by vote of the village assembly :

they are thus the "sieurs" Michel COHADE and Claude ASTIER who will bring as they have promised it the registers of grievances in Clermont the 16 of Marchs 1789 to the Seneschal of this city.

To note the presence of two witnesses, certainly necessary by the notary in order to draw up a report

completly authentic, first is Gilbert VERDIER, in the capacity of as middle-class of Pagnat

and the second Louis Denis COMBRE, carpenter, originating in Chilly en Isle de France, both

present for unknown reasons on the commune.

1st layer		2nd layer

3rd layer		4th layer

listed crosses	59
old postcards of the commune	156
old postcards except commune	47
old postcards of the volcano Puy de Dôme	118
associations listed on the commune	216
Gordon-Bennett Cup	74