Dardilly
Dardilly
Location within Rhône-Alpes region  Dardilly
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Rhône
Arrondissement	Lyon
Canton	Écully
Intercommunality	Lyon
Mayor	Michèlle Vullien (Independent) (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	240–375 m (790–1,230 ft) (avg. 348 m or 1,142 ft)
Land area1	13.99 km2 (5.40 sq mi)
Population2	9,149  (2006)
- Density	654 /km2 (1,690 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	69072/ 69570
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 45°48′23″N 4°45′13″E / 45.8064°N 4.7536°E / 45.8064; 4.7536

Dardilly is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.

Its inhabitants are called Dardillois

Geography[link]

An undulating town to in the western lyonnais, Dardilly is crossed to the east by the A6 autoroute and the RN6 and to the west by the RN7. Marked by a pleasanter, greener and more rural lifestyle, Dardilly's center is only 20 minutes by car from the Lyons peninsula. (By TCL bus: lines 3, 89, and by train, from the Saint-Paul suburb, - Lozanne).

Dardilly, with its 13.99 km² (5.40 sq mi), includes three valleys oriented north south: the valley of ruisseau de la Beffe to the west, the valley of the ruisseau des Planches and the valley of the ruisseau de Serres to the east. Its altitude varies between 260 and 390 metres, allowing exceptional views over the Monts d'Or, the Monts du Lyonnais and even on clear days the Alps, from Vercors to Mont Blanc.

The Town also possesses 1.73 km² of leafy forests of ones and 6.46 km² (2.49 sq mi) of farmland. Many paths for walkers, horseriders and mountain-bikers criss-cross these spaces:

• chemin du Bois de Serres (walkers' information centre)
• sentier de la Beffe
• chemin de la Thuillière
• sentier de Chantemerle
• chemin du Pont
• chemin des Saules

Bordering communes include:

• Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or
• Charbonnières-les-Bains
• Dommartin
• Ecully
• Limonest
• Lissieu
• La Tour-de-Salvagny

History[link]

The name Dardilly may originate from the Gallo-Roman name Dardiliacus, if the town was founded in that period, but there is no historic proof for this hypothesis, although the remains of an aqueduct built by Claudius to bring the waters of the Brévenne River (a tributary of the Azergues, itself a tributary of the Saône) to Lyon have been found nearby. More likely, the name Dardilly originated at the time of its first surviving mention, in the 10th century cartulary of Ainay Abbey, which possessed several lands here.

In the Middle Ages, the village, constructed on a mound, was made up of a church dedicated to Saint Pancras, an adjacent cemetery and about twenty houses. In 1210, at the time of the feudal wars, the Count of Beaujeu tried to seize the city of Lyon and its then archbishop, Renaud II de Forez, fortified Dardilly as part of his defence of Lyon by building a wall and ditch around the existing settlement.

In the time of Jean-Marie Vianney - the late 18th and early to middle 19th centuries - Dardilly was an agricultural and wine-growing town, with some beautiful houses built by wealthy people from Lyons who spent the summer months here. The population was about 1500 inhabitants. At the end of the 19th century the vines were ravaged by phylloxera and many of the town's inhabitants left for Lyons to find work, bringing the population down to 982 in 1911. The vine-growers that remained went over to growing fruit.

In 1986 Pope John-Paul II visited Dardilly to see Vianney's birthplace on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.

Administration[link]

List elected officials

Municipal Team 2001-2008

29 members.

Maire : Michèle Vullien

Maire's assistants:

1. Employment, Economy, Trade, Agriculture : Jean Cornet
2. Sports, Youth, Leisure, Communication : Christine Larochette
3. Urbanism,Environnement and quality of life : Yann Viremouneix
4. Social Action and Integration : Pascale Sapin
5. Childhood and Education : Cécile Montreuil
6. Jobs, Property law, and Social security : Jean François Fargier
7. Finance and Futures studies : Bruno Grange
8. Culture : Robert Pepey

Other officials elected with a majority:

• Noelle Doussin
• Jacques Taveau
• Suzanne Jambon Grandis
• Thierry Martin
• Alain Lascoutounax
• Agnès Bailly
• Mireille Imbernon
• Cédric Accary
• Françoise Ville
• Anne Rouffet
• Arlette Goubier
• Rose France Furnillon
• Chantal Gaignou
• Christian Ponsot
• Jacques Gallay

Opposition (from the Right):

• Renaud Brunet
• Martine Eeses
• Jean Yves Deloste
• Marie France Loiseleur
• Florence Dugourd

List of mayors[link]

Demography[link]

The active population of Dardilly is 3546. Out of the employed residents of the commune, 25.6% work in Dardilly, 17.4% work in another TECHLID (Technopole économique de l'Ouest Lyonnais - Technopolis of West Lyonnais) commune, 52.3% work in another (non-TECHLID) commune within the département and 4.7% work outside the département.

Economic[link]

• Dardilly is made up of two principal and nearby commercial centres, one around the church of Saint Jean-Marie Vianney (Dardilly-le-Bas, or Lower Dardilly), the other around the church of Saint Claude (Upper Dardilly, Dardilly-le-Haut). Some trades are also present along the avenue de Verdun. The tourist complex of Porte de Lyon, along the A6, includes many hotels and restaurants as well as a disco. Porte de Lyon also has an Auchan shopping center.
• Dardilly belongs to the economic area west of Greater Lyon called TECHLID, made up of 7 towns (La Tour-de-Salvagny, Écully, Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or, Limonest, Dardilly, Tassin-la-Demi-Lune, Charbonnières-les-Bains). In 2003, TECHLID included 5284 businesses, of which 896 were within Dardilly. This is mainly the three PME/PMI (small and medium industries and businesses), because 68.7% entreprises in TECHLID have less than 2 employees. The activity of the businesses in Dardilly is divided up as follows:

• The agricultural sector is also important, with 9 businesses growing wine, apples, and berries.

Social[link]

Dardilly has several social action groups :

• The CCAS (Centre communal d'action sociale, or community social action centre)
• A "Maison de la Petite Enfance", or nursery school
• A retirement home "La Bretonnière"
• A CAT - Ateliers Denis Cordonnier (social and employment centres for the handicapped)
• many associations such as the Association de service à domicile (home care group), the families association, Dardilly AVF Acceuil, etc.

Residences[link]

The town had 1,700 buildings in 1982, compared to 2 821 buildings in 2005. Even though the town's buildings have remained very residential, with a majority being individually owned houses, many of its buildings are social housing.

Environment[link]

• Dardilly participates in recycling by obliging its inhabitants to sort their waste into two distinct dustbins.
• The waste collection site of Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or is open to the Dardillois.
• The town participates in the composting drive launched by Greater Lyon: every home is reimbursed 30 € on purchase of a composter.

Schools[link]

• 3 nursery and primary schools - the groupe scolaire Grégoire-Parsonge, the groupe scolaire des Noyeraies and the Saint-Joseph private school.
• Dardilly is attached to the Jean-Philippe Rameau college at Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or.
• Dardilly is attached to the Jean Perrin lycée and the La Martinière lycée, both in Lyon.
• Dardilly has several vocational training schools - the CFA Philibert de L'Orme (construction), the Institut de formation du bâtiment et des travaux publics (Institute for construction training and public works), the François Rabelais hotel-training school, and a lycée of the landscape and environment.

Culture[link]

• The Aqueduc, a cultural centre, contains a médiathèque, a ludothèque, a "salle de spectacle" or exhibition hall (which hosts a cinema club) and several rooms for societies. Exhibitions regularly occur in its hall.
• Dardilly has more than 35 associations in all areas : sport, music, theatre, arts, travel, twinning, etc.
• "Les Vendredis Baroques" (Baroque Fridays) is an annual festival of baroque music, held in June in the church of Sant-Claude.

People[link]

• Jean Vianney
• Laurent Bonnevay also stayed near here.

Religion[link]

The 2 churches, Saint Jean-Marie Vianney et Saint Claude, make up the Catholic parish of Dardilly.

Sights and monuments[link]

• The Parsonnage manor
• Sant Jean-Marie Vianney church
• Saint Claude church
• the Bois de Serres
• Vianney's birthplace
• The oratory of Jean Marie Vianney
• The anti-war monument to the dead, inscribed "Contre la guerre et ses victimes la fraternité des peuples" (the brotherhood of peoples, against war and its victims), is one of France's Pacifist monuments to the dead.
• The Paillet fort

Sport[link]

About twenty sports associations and some businesses (e.g. a dance school) give a variety of sports opportunities in Dardilly. The town also has access to several sports facilities:

• The moulin Carron complex (gym, stadium, dojo, tennis), rebuilt and enlarged in 2007 *The Brocardière stadium (soccer pitch and athletics track)
• The Roland Guillaud gymnasium (climbing walls)
• The Paillet boulodrome
• The départemental boulodrome: situated in the Porte de Lyon, this large complex was inaugurated officially on 4 and 5 December 2006. At the crossroads for more than twenty years, the départemental boulodrome has thus left the south gate to be reborn at the Porte de Lyon. Installed on nearly 7 000 m², this complex includes more than 4,500 m² (covered and open-air) dedicated to games, of which 1,083 is air-conditioned, as well as a bar, a restaurant and a terrace. Ten games areas are up to international standard and allow the organization of competitions at the highest level.
• The Brocardière BMX track.

Twin towns[link]

• Merzhausen (Germany)
• Chorleywood (England)
• Niabina (Mauritania) since 1987 – Inter-commune twinning with Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or and Limonest

See also[link]

• Communes of the Rhône department

References[link]

• INSEE

External links[link]

• Dardilly on the Quid site
• Location of Dardilly on a map of France
• Map of Dardilly on Mapquest
• History of the parish of Dardilly

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Engraved portrait of Philibert DeLorme, c. 1626

Philibert DeLorme (pronounced: [filibɛːʁ dəlɔʁm]) (c. 1514 – January 8, 1570) was a French architect, one of the great masters of the French Renaissance.

He was born at Lyon, the son of Jean Delorme, a master mason. At an early age Philibert was sent to Italy to study (1533–1536) and was employed there by Pope Paul III. Returning to France he was patronized by Cardinal du Bellay at Lyon, and was sent by him about 1540 to Paris, where he began the Chateau de St Maur-des-Fossés, and enjoyed royal favour; in 1545 he was made architect to Francis I of France and given the charge of works in Brittany.

Israel Silvestre's view of the uppermost terrace of the Château Neuf at Meudon shows (with artistic license) its neglected state a century later.

In 1548 Henry II gave him the supervision of Fontainebleau, Saint-Germain-en-Laye—where he built the Château Neuf (illustration, left) — and the other royal buildings; but on the King's death (1559) Philibert fell into disgrace. Under Charles IX, however, he returned to favour, and was employed to construct the Tuileries, in collaboration with Jean Bullant. He died in Paris.

Much of his work has disappeared, but his fame remains. An ardent humanist and student of the antique, he yet vindicated resolutely the French tradition in opposition to Italian tendencies; he was a man of independent mind and a vigorous originality. His masterpiece was the Château d'Anet (1552–1559), built for Diane de Poitiers, the plans of which are preserved in Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's Plus excellens bastimens de France, though part of the building alone remains; and his designs for the Tuileries (also given by Androuet du Cerceau), begun by Catherine de' Medici in 1565, were magnificent. His work is also seen at Chenonceau and other famous châteaux; and his tomb of Francis I at Saint Denis Basilica remains a perfect specimen of his art. He wrote two books on architecture: Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et à petits frais (1561) and Le premier tome de l'Architecture (1567).

See also[link]

• Catherine de' Medici's building projects
• Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, influenced by Philibert DeLorme

References[link]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 
• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• Philibert de l'Orme ( french )

External links[link]

• English translation of de l'Orme's Le premier tome de l'architecture
• French Renaissance architectural treatises, Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance
• Palladio's Literary Predecessors