Manson Saint-Genès-Champanelle 63122 France

MANSON, village., commune of Saint-Genès-Champanelle.

- The church. It was, at first, only a chapel that
the abbey of Saint-Allyre, in Clermont, allowed to raise in
1693; but, in 1803, to the organization of the parishes of
diocese, it became branch church, for Manson, Thède
and Champeaux. The old chapel was demolished and replaced
by another that the Bishop of Clermont blessed on the 12th
November 1839. The Abbey of Saint-André de Clermont raised the
tithe to Manson from 1558; she still perceived it in
1789.,

- On January 18, 1873, various
Gallo-Roman antiquities deposited in the Clermont museum.

V. Arch. departure. of Puy-de-Dôme, abbey of
Saint-Alyre. - Memoirs of the Academy of Clermont-Ferrand,
year 1873, p. 43.

extract of Grand dictionnaire historique du département du Puy-de-Dôme of Ambroise TARDIEU, 1877.

Il 12 January 1873, a pastor named Jean TOURNEL saw in a I walk lots of copper. He dug and collected more than 100 objects that have been acquired by the BARGOIN museum of Clermont-Ferrand .
Il "material" (archaeological term) consists from the following objects :

discs to protect horses

pendeloques of harnachement

springs, pins, tubes, buttons, buckles, rings

tweezers, bracelets, blades of dagger

aschia, end of sleeves

Sit is believed that they date from the Bronze Age or the 1st Iron Age (i.e. about 750 years before J.C.).

Qthese objects are on display at the BARGOIN museum in a showcase on the ground floor.

[ back page of Dr. Jean Baptiste BOUILLET, on the treasure of manson ]

Above the plain of Laschamps, a little far of the road of Manson, in the middle of the "sectionnaux" of Manson, is a vault dedicated to Saint-Aubin. One knows few things about this saint. He was druide named GWENN which means "white" in celt language. Converted to the christian religion, he changes his name into ALBUS, "white" in latin, which by deformation became AUBIN. He was, says one, bishop.

The source of the vault , said de Chaban, according the belief, is supposed to have vertues of cure for the ocular deseases from where the old proverb : "Saint-Aubin, gives or removes the sight" bus for the happy ones, he cured them their evils and for the brigands who tried to plunder the offerings of the vault, those found blind men tell us the legend to the moment when they crossed the limits of the village; they recovered the sight only after force of penitence.

[data collected at the vault one day of high wind.]

The current vault was built in 1953 to a hundred meters of the old vault.

Its inauguration took place in août 1954.

Near this vault is located a water trough with several vats at the end of which was installed in 1954 a sheep bath-tub in order to more easily treat them against the parasitic deseases.

* [ view of the vault dedicated to Saint-Aubin ] *

This property was used formerly as vacation camp for the children clermontois of the parish of "Clos des Carmes".

It is located near the old school of Manson.

It exists at least 13 old postcards showing scenes of life being held in the property.

[ see postcards of home Saint-André ]

Formerly, 2 newspapers disputed the same customers auvergnate.

It remains us as witness of it, these 2 billboards which finished by being absorbed by the ash on which they were placed at the southern entry of Manson.

"La liberté" (the freedom) protested : "Mieux informé" (better informed).

"La Montagne" (the mountain) answered) : "Ecris pour tous, lu par tous" (write for all, read by all).

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	78