Amigny-Rouy () is a commune in the department of Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
Geography Amigny-Rouy is located some 30 km south of Saint Quentin and 25 km west by northwest of Laon. The commune is accessed by road D7 from Sinceny in the west passing through the heart of the commune and continuing east to Saint-Gobain. The D53 road comes from Condren in the northwest passing through the village and continuing south to Barisis. There is also a network of country roads throughout the commune. Most of the commune is farmland; however, there is a large, forested area in the south forming part of an extensive forested area outside the commune. There are no other hamlets or villages in the commune.
The Oise River forms the northern and northwestern border of the commune and the Ruisseau de Servais with numerous tributaries passes from east to west through the northern portion of the commune into the Oise. The Ru de Greve flows through the south of the commune. There are also a number of small lakes in the commune.Google Maps
Neighbouring communes and villages
Heraldry
Administration List of Successive Mayors of Amigny-RouyList of Mayors of France
From To Name 1792 1794 Jean Louis Langlet 1794 1812 Jean Lefevre 1813 1815 Bertin 1815 1816 Debrie 1816 1825 Antoine Lemaire 1825 1831 Louis Augustin Carlier 1831 1848 Jean Louis Demilly 1848 1849 Louis Delaporte 1849 1849 Xavier Joncourt 1849 1852 Germain Duhenoy 1852 1870 Louis Hector Lefevre 1870 1878 Jean Louis Lamotte 1878 1879 Evariste Guerin 1879 1880 Lucien Guille 1880 1888 Henri Delaporte 1888 1892 Auguste Maruy 1892 1905 Joseph Debrie-Demilly 1905 1908 Gustave Dufresne 1908 1913 Jean Baptiste Daulle 1913 1920 Lucien Langlet 1920 1924 Amédée Hain 1924 1929 Théophile Delaporte 1929 1935 Gaston Debrie
Mayors from 1935
From To Name Party 1935 1944 Eugène Coffin 1944 1945 Lucien Lefevre 1945 1947 Philémon Rousset 1947 1949 Henry Triou 1949 1950 Paul Demilly 1950 1971 René Carpentier 1971 1977 Odette Gomont 1977 1983 Marceau Lecoeur 1983 1989 Hubert de Wilde 1989 2001 Michel Valeggi 2001 2019 (deceased in office) André Didier DVD 2019 2020 Suzelle Delpouve 2020 incumbent Joël Duhénoy
Population
Religious heritage The Parish Church contains a Stained glass window: Christ on the Cross (16th century)which is registered as an historical object.Ministry of Culture, Palissy
Notable people linked to the commune Gédéon Poizot, Lieutenant French Forces of the Interior (FFI), (born 26 June 1907 Amigny-Rouy - died 10 August 1944, at the edge of the Busigny woods), alias "Poulain-Germain," hero and martyr of the Resistance (Maquis Mazinghem), killed on 10 August 1944 by the Vichy Milice.See page: "Hommage aux résistants disparus" on the website: A Man of the Maquis of Mazinghien 1942-1944 Elysee Darthenay Alban, born 3 January 1913 in Montrouge, a graduate of the Lyautey Class from Saint-Cyr and became a lieutenant in the 4th RIM of Auxerre. He was under instruction with his battalion at Amigny-Rouy from 23 October 1939 to 10 May 1940. He married in Nuits-Saint-Georges on 3 January 1940 and his wife joined him in hiding from the military authorities in Amigny-Rouy. He was cited on the order of the Division and received the Croix de Guerre for his bravery in combat defending the Haubourdin (Lille) bridges from 28 to 31 May 1940. As a prisoner at Hoyeverda he failed twice to escape and was transferred to the disciplinary prison of Colditz from where he escaped on 6 July 1943. In December 1943 he made himself available to the Resistance in Lyon and was assigned to the FFI of Bourg-en-Bresse in January 1944. In early February 1944 he was head of the Maquis in the Secret Army of Jura. Arrested on 7 April 1944 by the Gestapo, he was tortured until 11 April but did not speak. His silence saved 800 Maquis including Colonel Romans-Petit, leader of the Secret Army of Ain and Savoie. He left two orphans. On 26 April 1945 General de Gaulle made him a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In 1974 a class in Saint-Cyr was named after him, a hero the Resistance 1939–1945, who had only five months of family life which he spent illegally in Amigny-Rouy.
Sports Associations Football clubFootball Club
See also Communes of the Aisne department
References
External links Amigny-Rouy on the old National Geographic Institute website Amigny-Rouy official website 40000 Bell Towers website Amigny-Rouy on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website Rouy and Amigny on the 1750 Cassini Map