 The Historical Panels of Marolles :
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The History of Marolles is told through fifteen Historical Panels set up in fifteen remarkable places of the commune (with the assistance of the association History and Patrimony of Marolles).
You can see:
The Town Hall - The Farm - The School-Town Hall - The Church - The Church Place - The Cemetery - The Laundrette - The Distillery - The Castle of Tournelles - The Castle of Beaulieu - The Big Castle - The Castle and Park Gaillon - The Crossroads - The Street of Alun - The Railway.
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The panels n°10 and 11 were posed in September 2010 and the panel n°8 (the distillery) was posed in April 2011.
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Continuation on this map...
- Origin of the word Marolles :
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The origin of the name Marolles would come from matriolae, diminutive meaning lumber, which it's probably necessary to associate to the dominant economy of the country covered, partially, by the forest.
It's at least the version which Albert DAUZAT defends in his Dictionary Etymologique. This word matriolae quoted from 1132 in the Cartulaire Général of Yonne established by M. QUANTIN is given as stemming from the Latin word maeriola, itself diminutive of material : lumber.
Another source mentions a little bit different origin of the name. In XIIth century, one calls it in Latin Merrolae. Others in the next century write Merroliae and Maroliae. The etymologists think that this name can come from the fact that in the places which carry it,
there was small ornamental lakes, puddles. What is true for our village : puddle of Ris, puddle of Saules, puddle of Noir.
The village is crossed from East to West by the D8 (Arpajon - Itteville), along whom became established the built tissue. It was originally a street village in which the church, which is situated in the extremity, is the most ancient batiment.
The complete naming of Marolles evolved in the time : one century ago, Marolles was called Marolles en Josas, certainly because it was a part of the Archidiaconé of Josas, formed by the ancent country of Hurepoix, then became Marolles les Arpajon to see attributing officially, by imperial decree in 1849, Marolles's current name in Marolles en Hurepoix.
Sources: to discover or to rediscover Marolles's church , edited in Seprember, 2000, by the association History and Patrimony.
- History of Marolles :
- At the beginning of XIIIth century, one lists the first Lords of Marolles, such the Chevalier Hugues de Meraolins, then under Philippe Auguste, Pagames Filiaster, man of Roi, nicknamed Payen Maufilatre.
The previous history of the population are different as far as two events in XIVth and XVth centuries came to disrupt strongly the local demography.
The One hundred Years war, which destroyed the region, and a "big plague and mortality", drived the authorities to resort to the immigration voluntary or forced from the overpopulatedprovinces (Normandy, Centre and Picardy). One estimates the number of immigrants in approximately 50, by 1475, on a population of 150 souls.
The part of the country will be totally reconstructed and cultivated only at the end of XVth century.
When he became a Lord of Marolles (in 1481), Jehan de Mesmes "makes plough and mectre in kind all the lands who lors estoient wooden, fallow lands and savarts".
In the Revolution, the ground belonged to Alexandre de Montmorency, prince of Robecq, Spanish grandee and delegated in the General States.
- Marolles and its castles :
- Marolles counted up to four castles regrettably every missing.
Marolles's Castle, the park of which remains at the end of the avenue Agoutin, which belonged to the Lord of Mesmes. Parmis its illustrious owners, one can quote the Master of Montmorency, the Marquis of Bercy and the Comte de Treilhard. It was burned by the Germans in 1944. One still fonds there, an Obelisk, situated in the axis of the castle, constituted by cut stoneware the teminal ball of which, spoilt, was of use as target to the Germans under the Occupation.
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Beaulieu's castle, situated road of Paris, where stayed Henri IV, who so baptized it. Its name at that time was Biscorne or Bichecorne. Germaine Necker, future Madame de Staël, stayed in the castle in 1785.
Joseph Levassor will live in Beaulieu and be, of 1826 to 1836, mayor of Marolles. His son Emile Levassor will be born in 1843 there.
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 Gaillon's castle, bought in 1619 by Prince de Vallois, Duc d'Angoulème, was gérant of Gaillon's property. It had numerous owners (it was, during 117 years, the property of the family Giraud and was split in XIXth and XXth century) before being offered to the municipality in 1970, who declined this offer because of his dilapidation. On its site, was set up, in 1970, the whole of the Park of Gaillon.
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 Tournelles's castle, which was burned by the Germans, in 1944, was situated road of Evry, and belonged to Sir Des Garets.
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- Other Histories :
 Our church, of a big sobriety, would have built in XIIth century, reshaped in the XVIth century and restored in the XIXth century. One of its main ornaments is the big stained glass, installed in XVth century. It presents Saint Georges, boss of the parish, and wears the armoieries of its giver, Messire de Mesmes.
The church was closed under the Agreement and dut its safety to the City Council, which soggested transforming it into shop of feed, rather than delivering it to the demolition workers as recommanded it a Superintendent of the Agreement.
 Closer of us, the construction of the Station by 1845, was one of the six stations which marked out the line Paris-Orléans, inaugurated by Louis Philippe.
Sources : the Practice Guide of Marolles en Hurepoix 1988-89.
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