The former house of the justice of the peace

In the 19th century this house most probably belonged to the Mauger family. Pierre Mauger was a notary and mayor of Clères from 1830 to 1848. His son, Pierre Nicolas Mauger, was also a notary and was mayor from 1865 until his death in 1874. Another Pierre Mauger, great grandnephew of the first, was himself mayor from 1946 to 1965 and lived in the house until his death in 1982. The house was then sold.

The road was named after the Mauger family which had played such an important role in the village.

Georges Cavé, Justice of the Peace in Amfreville-le-Campagne (Eure), was promised the post of Justice of the Peace in the canton of Clères and was transferred by appointment on February 8th 1908. He retained the post until 1929, lived in the house and had an office in the town halls, both the old and the new.

Cavé was a scholar and very interested in the history of Clères and its canton. Together with Splaikowski he wrote a brochure about Grugny and the creation of its departmental institution. He was also president of the cantonal section of wards of the state. In this role he gave a speech at the inauguration of the war memorial in Montville on August 21st 1921. There were 71 orphans in this commune.

It was in this house in 1920 that Placide Alexandre, mayor of Mont Cauvaire and general councillor for the Clères commune first met Edmond Splaikowski.

‘It was in Clères, in M. Cavé’s office that I gave a copy of my humble research on the Trombe de Montville. M. Cavé was a scholar and passionate about local research.

His office was full of filing cabinets in which all the documents concerning the canton were meticulously classified’.

In 1915 the young couple who bought this house removed the plaster rendering, which can already be seen on the 1910 photos, thus revealing the beautiful, original St Pierre brick.

The house was probably built in the 18th century since it figures on the 1820s Napoleonic surveyance map.