The two bells are baptized November 22, 1820 One, Mary Magdalene, takes the first name of his godmo

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Imposing silhouette or hail, tower skyward symbolizes the aspiration to God of the Christian people: a prayer carried by the brass bells voice cloistered in the belfry of the church. 200024
Born with the Bronze Age, adopted by most civilizations, the bells are installed in Christian bell in the 7th century. At the end of the Middle Ages, any church or chapel hosts one or two in his tower to communicate with God and men.
Familiar companions of the villagers, they punctuate their sad or stolen its light hours (Angelus, Mass, Vespers ...), its joys (baptism, Easter, Christmas ...), his misfortunes 200024 (glas, tocsin ...). For him these brazen voices have a body (the bell has a brain, a shoulder, a paunch, a lip, a dress) and soul (they are baptized, they are given a name, a godfather, godmother).
Although hidden from his eyes, the villagers feel their vibrant presence behind the gates of the blind sounds. Only the sacristan-ringer maintains 200024 some connection with these cloistered. A Treillières he even provide and maintain at its expense the ropes that hang it for blackmail.
The ladies of the village steeple knows only the voice that speaks to him in a very distant soul: it makes him sign leaning towards the earth when ringing the Angelus, crying knell Graves, smiling at life morning pealed Easter. He also knows that this invisible song that celebrated his baptism resonate on its abandoned plowing when the deposit in the land of the cemetery.
This strange complicity arises a visceral attachment of the peasant to his tower and one of the worst penalties for a village community that is forever deprive of its bells.
This is what happens 200024 in spring 1793. In March this year, rural West have revolted against the revolutionary power that wants to send youth to fight to defend the Republic 200024 borders threatened invasion. On 25 March, 200024 after a first rebellion was quelled, the Military Committee of Nantes directs 200024 that "... the armed force that happen in the various towns revolted to seize all the bells of the churches and chapels 200024 to break the transportation is done in the head of the department ... ".
A Treillières Mayor Alexander 200024 Vincent, accustomed to difficult negotiations with the authorities believed Nantes save his dumb bells making by removing their wings; after what the Republicans want is that we no longer sounds the alarm to call for insurrection. But Nantais distrust rural and Mayor Treillières receives 200024 the following letter:
The department has taken us your letter of 4th of this month, it is not enough to have removed the folding doors bells strings and scale, should you do and promptly lead to Nantes say bells, you must Furthermore proceed without delay as to disarm your town and soon to be in this city all the weapons found or made. "
The return of civil and religious peace, the municipality 200024 of Treillières wants to give voice to his little rickety tower. October 11, 1814, Alexandre 200024 Vincent proposes to Council selling "heaths and commons" to buy a bell and then, if not chime a second. The founder Pierre Caillard undertakes to provide to 1800 F. But first must consolidate the old steeple, buy strings, to shine a shoemaker, route bells, burn .... In 1820 the bill rises to 2080 F. lack of money in the coffers 200024 of the commons is still selling!
The two bells are baptized November 22, 1820 One, Mary Magdalene, takes the first name of his godmother, Miss Mary Magdalene From Black, 200024 the Louinière.; The Godfather 200024 Julien Lardic La Ganry of Fayau. The landed aristocracy of the ancien regime 200024 and in the spotlight the municipality, 200024 in a remarkable pendulum, chose to sponsor another bell, called Marie-Anne Felix, representatives of the new emerging bourgeoisie. Godmother is Marie-Anne Felix Provenchère wife of Mr Haentjens owner Gesvres. It being Protestant can not claim the title sponsor. The role falls to his son, Pierre-Joseph Maës future owner of Upper Gesvres.
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