Editing Aube (section)

== History ==

=== Early history ===
The first inhabitants of Aube were the [[Tricasses]] and [[Lingones]] with a substantial human settlement around the year 400 BC.

[[Savinian and Potentian|Saints Potentian and Savinian]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gatinais.monsite.wanadoo.fr/page3.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208102739/http://gatinais.monsite.wanadoo.fr/page3.html|url-status=dead|title=Saint-Potentien and Saint-Savinien, first preachers of the Gospel in Gaul|archivedate=8 February 2008}}</ref> Greek priests from [[Samos]], came to preach the [[gospel]] from the middle of the 3rd century. [[Patroclus of Troyes|Saint Patroclus]] was one of the first martyrs of the new faith in the year 259. Shortly after ''Saint Jule'' and some notables of the city of [[Tricasses]] also suffered martyrdom. Nevertheless, as elsewhere, the Christian community became large enough to accommodate a [[bishop]]. ''Saint Amateur'' was the first in 340. In the year 286 the [[Bagaudae]] ravaged the land which forms Aube. [[Emperor Julian]] came to [[Troyes]] with his army and rescued it.

The territory making up Aube was first attached to France in 843, following the [[Treaty of Verdun]].

=== The 12th century and the monasteries ===
[[File:Kloster von Clairvaux, heute Strafanstalt.jpg|thumb|The Abbey of Clairvaux: today a prison]]

Two important monasteries were founded in the department: one at [[Clairvaux Abbey|Clairvaux]] in 1114, created by [[Bernard of Clairvaux]], the other was the [[Abbey of the Paraclete]] near Nogent-sur-Seine, by his illustrious rival, [[Pierre Abélard]] and of which [[Héloïse d'Argenteuil]] was the first [[abbess]]. Bernard of Clairvaux was noted for his eloquence at the [[Council of Troyes 1129|Council of Troyes]] and his preaching of the [[Second Crusade]] which had no result and whose outcome was disastrous.

The reunion of [[Champagne (province)|Champagne]] with the kingdom of France was finalised in 1361. Yet people wanted absolutely the incorporation of Champagne but in 1328 [[Philip VI of France|King Philip VI]] gave the city of [[Bar-sur-Seine]] to Philippe de Croy. The inhabitants, however, ransomed him to return it to the king on the condition that it become inalienable.

=== Definitive reunion with Kingdom of France ===
The decree of the [[National Assembly (French Revolution)|National Assembly]] of 15 January 1790 formally established the department of Aube. Its first president was Augustin-Henri-Marie Picot<ref name=Peers>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I0sWAAAAYAAJ ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the peers of France''], Volume 8, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, 1827 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> and his first deputy was Louis Antoine Joseph Robin. [[Jacques Claude Beugnot]] was elected attorney-general and also MP.<ref name=Peers />

After the victory of the allies in the [[battle of Waterloo]] on 18 June 1815, the department was occupied by Russian troops from June 1815 to November 1818.

In 1911, following the revolt of the [[vineyards]] of [[Champagne (wine region)|Champagne]], large [[Champagne Riots|riots]] broke out in the department.

In 1919, a decree allowed Aube department to produce [[champagne]] for the first time.<ref>[http://arkantz.canalblog.com/archives/regions___tourisme/index.html ''Regions-Tourism-Arkantz''], 2007, consulted on 19 September 2010 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

In 1932, Turkish president [[Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] visited Aube and signed a friendship treaty with France there on 4 July 1938.<ref>[http://www.atam.gov.tr/index.php?Page=DergiIcerik&IcerikNo=864 Foreign Policy Of Atatürk]</ref>

=== Heraldry ===
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'''Blazon:'''<br />
''Azure, a band argent with two cotises potent and counter potent in Or, chief wavy in argent.''
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