Arcenant Explained

Arcenant
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason de la ville de Arcenant (Côte-d'Or).svg
Arrondissement:	Beaune
Canton:	Nuits-Saint-Georges
Insee:	21017
Postal Code:	21700
Mayor:	Jean-Paul Sérafin^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Coordinates:	47.1403°N 4.8467°W
Elevation M:	337
Elevation Min M:	305
Elevation Max M:	591
Area Km2:	10.12

Arcenant (in French pronounced as /aʁsənɑ̃/) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Geography

Located in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, between Dijon and Beaune, Arcenant is 9 km west of Nuits-Saint-Georges and 16 km north of Beaune. Access to the commune is by the D25 road from Meuilley in the east passing through the village and continuing to join the D18 just west of the commune. The commune is heavily forested with some areas of farmland around the village and in the east.

The Raccordon rises west of the village and flows east through the village and on to join the Meuzin east of Meuilly.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages

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History

On 15 June 1944 German troops together with men from the French Milice attacked a hundred Maquis resistance fighters holed up in a place called La Grotte (The Cave). Fighting resulted in 39 dead attackers and 6 dead Maquis with 4 wounded. The six dead were: Serge Boillereau, Ferruccio Borillo, Louis Evrard, Jean Fiorese, Jean Poulet, and André Rebill. This feat of arms continues to be celebrated each year on the site of the battle.^[3]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[4]

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arcenantais or Arcenantaises in French.^[5]

Sites and monuments

• The Trou du Duc (The Duke's Hole), a cave in the side of a cliff from which there is an extensive view, inhabited since antiquity^[6]
• The Puits à terre (Land Well), a well masoned similar to a conventional well but for collecting the soil from vines carried by the runoff water. There was enough remaining to restore in place.
• The Groseille well, a large underground chamber 560m across and 30m deep
• The Ecartelot Gallo-Roman site in the Arcenant communal forest. Located on a Roman road, it included a farm and a pool for drinking water, rare in Côte-d'Or.
• A Fortified Priory from the 13th century.
• A Tree of Liberty in the central square of the village.
• 3 Lavoirs (Public Laundries) (19th century) are registered as historical monuments.^[7]
• The Parish Church of Saint-Martin (14th century) contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
  • A Painting: Ecstasy of Saint Angèle Merici (17th century)^[8]
  • A Statue: Virgin and child (13th century)^[9]
  • A Group Sculpture: Charity of Saint Martin (15th century)^[10]
  • All the Monumental Paintings in the Choir (1885)^[11]

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See also

• Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

External links

• Arcenant on the National Geographic Institute website
• Arcenant on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
• Arcenant on the 1750 Cassini Map

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
2. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arcenant,+France/@47.1407269,4.84074,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47f2893291fb800d:0x409ce34b31465f0 Google Maps
3. Article in Bien Public of 26 June 2002, consulted on 25 December 2008.
4. http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=26595 List of Mayors of France
5. https://www.habitants.fr/cote-d-or-21 Le nom des habitants du 21 - Côte-d'Or
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgpOAAAAMAAJ&q=%22trou+du+duc%22+arcenant Memoirs, Historical, Archaeological, and Literary Society of the Arrondissement of Beaune
7. Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
8. Ministry of Culture, Palissy
9. Ministry of Culture, Palissy
10. Ministry of Culture, Palissy
11. Ministry of Culture, Palissy
12. Article in Bien Public on 5 January 2006, consulted on 25 December 2008.