Authie, Calvados
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Authie (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.[1]
Geography
Authie is located some Template:Convert north-west of the centre of Caen. Access to the commune is by road D220 from Villons-les-Buissons in the north-east which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Carpiquet in the south. The D220C also goes south-east from the village to the urban area of Caen. There are also the hamlets of Hameau de Saint-Louet, Franqueville, Fermie du Calvaire, and Cussy in the commune. Apart from the large residential area the commune is entirely farmland.[2]
Toponymy
The name of the town is attested in the forms Alteium in 1227 and Auteya in 1264.[3]
Albert Dauzat matched Authie with Authie in Somme department (Altegiam 830) on the coastal river Authie (Alteia 723) and considers it primarily as a hydronym but does not provide any further explanation.[4]
According to René Lepelley this toponym is based on the pre-Celtic element alt in an unknown sense and is close to Authou in Pont-Authou.[5]
François de Beaurepaire sees a Gallic (Celtic) element in the alt in Authou.[6]
The Gallic term Attegia was recognized by Xavier Delamarre in Atheist-type names - e.g. Athis in the sense of "cabin or hut".[7]
This analyses to ad- (pre-verb) and tegia meaning "house" (cf. Old Irish teg, old Welsh tig, Welsh Ty, Old Breton tig, and Breton ti all meaning "house").[8]
It is likely that Authie contains the same element tegia preceded by another prefix. From a phonetic point of view there is a palatalization of the intervocalic consonant where [g] becomes [j] and then an Amuïssement or attenuation of [j]>[∅], a recurrent phenomenon in phonetics.
The same author explains that Arthies (Artegiae 680) may come from *Are-tegia which is a possible solution for Authie, knowing that [r] regularly becomes [l] before a consonant.
The name Altavilla is either a medieval romanization of a place named Hauteville as in Hauteville in Manche department and therefore does not relate to Authie. It may be a scribal error for *Alteia Villa or *Villa Alteia which mentions a villa, i.e. a rural area in medieval Latin, in a place called Alteia which is Authie.
History
In 1832 Authie (466 inhabitants in 1831) absorbed Saint-Louet-près-Authie (9 people)[9] in the west of its territory.
The commune was liberated on 8 June 1944 but was largely destroyed in the bombing.
Administration
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| From | To | Name |
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| 1983 | 2020 | Joël Pizy |
| 2020 | 2026 | Olivier Simar |
Twinning
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- Template:Flagicon North Baddesley (United Kingdom) since 1993.
Demography
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Althavillais or Althavillaises in French.[12]
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Culture and heritage
Civil heritage
The commune has one site that is registered as an historical monument:
- An Ornamental Garden in the Château of Authie (18th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[13]
- The Monument to the Canadians dedicated to the victims of the taking of the village in 1944
Religious heritage
The commune has two religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
- The Church of Saint Vigor (12th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[14]
- A Cemetery Cross (18th century)Template:Mérimée Icon[15]
The Church contains one item that is registered as an historical object:
- A Bronze Bell (1704)Template:Palissy Icon[16]
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Saint Vigor church
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Saint-Vigor Portal
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Detail on the Portal
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A detail on the church
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The Vault in the church
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The Nave of the church
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The Cemetery Cross
See also
External links
- Authie on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Template:In lang
- Authie on the 1750 Cassini Map
References
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- ↑ Authie in the Competition for Towns and Villages in Bloom Template:Webarchive Template:In lang
- ↑ Google Maps
- ↑ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Librairie Guénégaud Paris 6th edition, 1979, p. 39a. Template:In lang
- ↑ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, op. cit.
- ↑ René Lepelley, Etymological Dictionary of commune names in Normandy, Charles Corlet éditions PUC 1994, p. 54b - 55a. Template:ISBN Template:In lang
- ↑ The names of communes and old parishes in Eure, A. and J. Picard, François de Beaurepaire, preface by Marcel Baudot, 1981, Paris, 221 pages, Template:ISBN, Template:OCLC, p. 56 Template:In lang
- ↑ Xavier Delamarre, Dictionary of the Gallic language, éditions Errance 2003, p. 59. Template:In lang
- ↑ Xavier Delamarre, op. cit. Template:In lang
- ↑ Template:Cassini-Ehess
- ↑ List of Mayors of France Template:In lang
- ↑ National Commission for Decentralised cooperation Template:In lang
- ↑ Le nom des habitants du 14 - Calvados, habitants.fr
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée Template:Mérimée Template:In lang
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée Template:Mérimée Template:In langTemplate:Camera
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Mérimée Template:Mérimée Template:In langTemplate:Camera
- ↑ Ministry of Culture, Palissy Template:Palissy Template:In lang