Barberey-Saint-Sulpice () is a commune in the

Aube Aube ( ) is a French departments of France, department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube (river), Aube. With 310,242 inhabitants (2019),

department in the

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region of north-central

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Geography

Barberey-Saint-Sulpice is located to the immediate north-west of

Troyes Troyes () is a Communes of France, commune and the capital of the Departments of France, department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within ...

with the Troyes - Barberey Airport located in the commune. Access to the commune is by the D619 highway which starts at the end of the D319 highway at the edge of Troyes and continues north-west through the commune to

Fontaine-les-Grès Fontaine-les-Grès () is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Population See also *Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the Aube department of France France, offic ...

. The D20 also passes through the commune from Troyes going north-west to

Saint-Lyé Saint-Lyé () is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Population See also * Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the Aube department of France France, officially the ...

. The D60 from Troyes to

Dierrey-Saint-Pierre Dierrey-Saint-Pierre () is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Population See also *Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the Aube department of France France, offi ...

passes through the south-western end of the commune. The D619 comes from Sainte-Maure in the north-east and passes through the centre of the commune and the town and continues south-west to join the D60 in the commune. The airport runway crosses three-quarters of the commune west of the D619 from north to south with access to the airport terminal by the ''Route de l'Aerodrome'' branching off the D619. The main railway line from Troyes to the north-west passes through the commune with a station in the town. Apart from a large urban area covering most of the north-west of the commune and the airport occupying the centre, the rest of the commune is farmland.Google Maps
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river passes through the north-east of the commune as it flows north-west to eventually reach

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and the

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. The former Canal de la Haute-Seine begins in the commune and follows the Seine to eventually join the

Marcilly-sur-Seine Marcilly-sur-Seine (, literally ''Marcilly on Seine'') is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France. It is near the confluence of the Aube and the Seine. See also *Communes of the Marne department The following is a list of ...

Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive

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Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Barberotins'' or ''Barberotines'' in French. Barberey monument aux morts

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments: *A Canal Bridge over the Seine (1847) *A Chateau (1626) *The Huot Mill (now a hydro-electric power station) (19th century) The Mill contains an Hydraulic Turbine (20th century) which is registered as an historical object.

Religious heritage

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The Parish Church of Saint-Sulpice (12th century) is registered as an historical monument.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée has a Romanesque

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

from the 12th century and a

choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

and

transept A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform ("cross-shaped") cruciform plan, churches, in particular within the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque a ...

from the 16th and 17th centuries. There is a wooden

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tribune Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the Tribune of the Plebs, tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs ac ...

of twenty-five panels. The façade and porch are

half-timbered Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy Beam (structure), timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and Woodworking joints, joined timbers with joints secure ...

.Marguerite Beau, ''Essay on the religious architecture of southern Champagne in Aube except Troyes'', 1991 The Church contains a very large number of items that are registered as historical objects.

Notable people linked to the commune

*Claude-Louis Bruslé de Valsuzenay (6 December 1766

- 2 March 1825 Paris), French politician and senior official in the 18th and 19th centuries,

Châtelain Châtelain was originally the French title for the keeper of a castle.Abraham Rees Ebers, "CASTELLAIN", in: The Cyclopædia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature' (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819), vol. 6. H ...

of Barberey.

References

External links

Barberey-Saint-Sulpice official website

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