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The Hundred Year's
War increased
the disorder and poverty, of the armed bands driving out the
terrified populations, leaving only ruins. Provins passed in turn
to the power of the Bourguignon, of the French and the
English, without counting the plagues and famines which struck
during years 1324, 1348, 1391, 1400, 1412, 1418 and 1421. |
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At the time of the
Religions War, Provins was besieged by Henri IV, in August 1592.
The city resisted thirteen days then capitulated.
In 17th
century, a succession of disastrous floods ruined more the city
and its inhabitants, in 1611, 1622, 1637...
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If during the French Revolution, Provins did not know
excesses which devastated Paris, it nevertheless was requested
in summer 1789 by the capital for its attics abundantly
filled.
The
religious buildings underwent degradations and mutilations
of statues.
At the judgement of king Louis XVI, the
deputy of Provins at the Convention, Christophe Opoix voted
the detention and the exile of the King. |
Christophe Opoix |
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In 1815, Napoleon thought
to make Provins a special fortified town to protect
Paris. If this project was not realised, several
kilometres of ramparts in the low town disappeared
with the profit of a military camp: the Delort district.
En 1821, the Town hall (built in the Renaissance
period) sheltering also a library was destroyed by a
fire. So a great number of
invaluable
manuscripts disappeared.
In
1870, the city was weaken by the Requisitions due to the
war against the Germans. In 1914 the battle of the Marne
pushed back the projection of the German army out of the
surroundings of Provins.
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Provins during the
invasion - 30th September
1870 |
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