“It was
around the time of the Popes, based in Avignon,
in the 14th century. Do you know who went to Catherine de Burgondian to
establish themselves in l'Isle sur la
Sorgue ? I tell you this in confidence, he was called Hermand
Barthelier. History does not tell us whether this noble and strong Bavarian
warrior went to l'Isle Sur La
Sorgue by chance or by necessity, but we do know that he
bought the rights and built his house there, the same one where we are chatting
today. The Barthelier family prospered in L'Isle and participated in the
development of commerce in the town. There were many nobles in this city, they
were influential, well intergrated with the other social classes, owned
beautiful houses and luxuriously appointed mansions. They were rich landowners.
In 1788, on the eve of the revolution, De Barthelier de Venasque owned 57 hectares of
agricultural land and the barns of Barthelière at Puyverain, on the road to
Caumont, barns and land at Costieres….. The Bartheliers were connected with the
church: Francoise de Barthelier was born in 1573 and died in Paris in the odour
of sanctity, 1st September 1645, after having started several houses 'Dames
d'Elysabeth', of the Third Order of Saint Francois, of which the convent can be
found on the site of the Manni garage. Since Francois the first, the
inhabitants of Avignon and of Comtat enjoyed the
privilege in France
of rignicoles. Under this title the nobility served the King. Francois Pompee
Liberal of Barthelier Venasque, born on 26th July 1743, was the Lieutenant of
the Vermandois regiment. In his will of 18th October 1822, he signed as a old
infantry captain, 'Chevalier de l'ordre royal and miliataire de Saint Louis'. His father,
Claude Pompee Francois de Barthelier, co-seigneur of Venasque had married
Madeleine de Silvan on 6th October 1742, a noble lady of Le Thor. It was she, who
at the age of 74 during the year of 1794, would eagerly take up the defence of
her eldest son, stuck in Mahon in Menorca for health reasons, reputed to be an
'émigré', whose belongings were sequestrated, with the exception of those
absent-mindedly forgotten by his wife, Marie-Thérèse Rosalie de Varvarenne, who
obtained the divorce (the eleventh of february 1794). Francois Pompée Libéral
died in L'Isle sur la Sorgue
on the 11th of February 1824, childless, after having been given an amnesty and
reinvested in his house.
La Maison sur la Sorgue has been owned
through the ages by different owners:
Alphonse
Crousnilhon, the cousin, 1824
Joseph de
Bressy, 1826
Famille
Rousset 1933
Baptistin
Bernard 1934
Aimé
Léautier 1941
Marie-Claude
and Frédéric, 2002
In 1714,
the Barthelier house was enlarged through inheritance of the house of De La Forestier, their uncle. In
1856, Joseph de Bressy sold the south section of the property, a house with two
courtyards, to the local authority of the city to make a school.After the
school was demolished in the 1960s, there was only La Maison sur la Sorgue remaining, next to
the new Rose Goudard square. This house was admirably restored in keeping with
the fine dwelling of the Barthelier family, by Marie-Claude and Frédéric in 2004.”
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