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April 13, 2009
La Crèche 790048 79260
Deux-Sèvres Poitou-Charentes
46.367 -0.307 61 m

Ruffigny wash-house, on right bank of Sèvre Niortaise river, close to Ruffigny village, la Crèche commune.

One sight. Sèvre Niortaise river close to the wash-house.
Other sight. Sèvre Niortaise river close to the wash-house.

I was born somewhere… and more precisely in Ruffigny village on the territory of this commune.
Without me to ask for my opinion, one baptized me on the baptismal font, always there, of Notre-Dame des Neiges, which is rather singular in Poitou.
I saw, of my eyes, my mother and one of my aunts to wash their linen in this wash-house... Is there the right to be moved, not?

Sévre Niortaise river is a coastal river of 158 km course, which takes its source close to Sepvret in Deux-Sèvres, crosses Niort, then goes down in the marsh from Poitou which it feeds, before throwing in the Atlantic Ocean in Aiguillon bay. Sèvre Niortaise river and Sèvre Nantaise river, gave their name to the department of Deux-Sèvres.

Adélaïde (1965), de jacques Debronckart, 1934-1983.

"
Qu'ils soient d'ici où de n'importe quel parage
Moi j'aime bien les gens qui sont de quelque part
Et portent dans leur cœur une ville ou un village
Où ils pourraient trouver leur chemin dans le noir
...
"

“That they are from here where of any trimming
Me I like people who are of some share
And carry in their heart a city or a village
Where they could find their way in the black…”

La Crèche is a french commune, located in the department of Deux-Sèvres of the Poitou-Charentes area, populated of 4684 Créchois, distributed on 35 km², that is to say 135 hab./km².

The name of La Crèche would derive from the word cross.

In "la Basse-Crèche" street, a stele recalls that an artist was born and deceased there.
Jean-Baptiste Baujault, born on April 19, 1828, deceased on November 27, 1899, artist sculptor. One can see his tomb in the cemetery known as of Breloux, in la Crèche.

Huguenot and republican, he had a modest career under the second Empire and the Third Republic.
He lived and worked in Paris, of Montparnasse with Montmartre. He knew glory, only briefly:
in 1870 for its "Jeune Gaulois criant : Au Gui l'An Neuf", Musée d’Orsay.
and in 1873 for its "Premier Miroir", Niort, Musée Bernard d'Agesci.
it carried out representations of characters of the area, like the a href="http://fr.trekearth.com/workshops/788673/photo119753.htm">Colonel Denfert-Rochereau à Saint-Maixent-l'Ecole.
More details about la Crèche.

My images of la Crèche.