The history of the school is traced through the buildings, teachers, class photographs and collected memories. The notes in the fund also retain older documents on instruction in the parish.
Public school since the Revolution
Teakers
Teachers: Mr Le Bastard until about 1926, (died in 1935 at the age of 73).
Then Mr Adam around 1927?
Then Ms Huet (will be director) in 1928? And until 1965
In 1928, there were 50 students in a single class, led by Miss Huet without any problems of order or discipline (testimony Raymond Coliboeuf entered that year at the age of 6).
Ms Renouf, begins in? And until after the war, double Miss Huet since?
Mr and Mrs Tallec, from 1965 to 1971
Mr. and Mrs. Philippe (2 classes) 1971/73
Mr. and Mrs. Hélène (2 classes) 1973/80
1980/88: Mr Hélène (single class)
School closed in June 1988, students transferred to the school of Trévières
The school in Vierville under the Old Regime
(Excerpts and adaptations of the Historical Notes on the Bessin)
Like all former parishes, Vierville found resources for its patients and schools as well as for its church and priests.
The poor sick had their "maladrerie", a name still beared by a land that was once part of the seigneurial domain. (This land was part of the fief of Mauminot, a fief that included the mansion and lands of Lormel), according to the tribute paid to the King on May 11, 1724 by Isaac-François Canivet, lord of Mauminot).
The unrest of Protestantism and the League annihilated the old charitable and school foundations. In the 17th century, the lords began to equip churches again to allow the clergy to relieve the poor and educate children.
Thus Pierre Alexandre, parish priest of Vierville, from 1653 to 1670, bequeathed for this purpose to the church of this parish several pieces of land that the parish still possessed at the time of the last expropriations of clergy property.
His successor, Nicolas Le Monnier applying instructions from the Bishop of Bayeux, Bishop de Nesmond, created a school foundation whose notarial minutes of Trévières keep the acts.
The first act, dated June 14, 1694, shows the parish priest Le Monnier buying from René du Jardin, a "Land and house located in the hamel of Guesberne, (Guerberue today) Bounded by the representatives of Marin de Tour, Bertin Street, the way from the church to the Croix-Mitard, in charge of returning the rights and duties due to the Lord of Saint-Sever, and in charge of giving five sols annually to the church's treasury, to let the seller make his profit from the young apple trees of the nursery when they are in a position to be lifted, and to pay two hundred pounds to René Du Jardin, who gives the buyer 61 pounds 15 sols to amortize to the treasury an annuity of one and a half of wheat due to the obits of Vierville".
The second act is the will of the same Nicolas Le Monnier, on the date called September 3, 1694. It says that "Nicolas Le Monnier wishing to make the salvation of his soul and those of all his parents both alive and deceased has by this present, given and osmoné by gratuitous donation... for the benefit of the parish priests, priests and obitiers his successors who will serve after his death the benefit of Vierville:
1° the Petit-Val piece, containing six vergées, hired by Christine Yver, widow of David Levesque, and by Gabriel Levesque for 180 books, on February 23, 1693;
2° three acres of plowed land, that of the Bulanderie, sold to him by Raphael of Dover... for 180 pounds of which he gave him on September 10, 1693;
3° six pounds of annuity on Jean Chipel d'Englesqueville by contract of July 10, 1693; all at the expense of a low mass every Monday and a Libera on his burial.
In addition (Nicolas Le Monnier) gave and osmoné to one of the prestres obitiers who will be required to do school and instruct the children of the said parish, and failing that to another person who will be deemed capable of instructing the youth and appointed by the donor and his successors
1° the usufruct of a closed land of hayware on which there is a kitchen, pantry, stable and shed and other facilities purchased from René Du Jardin... ",
and 2° an annuity of four pounds and two floors. "
The founding parish priest of the Vierville school was succeeded, in 1702, Adrien Loir who, on his death, on February 14, 1724, gave his furniture to the poor. From the proceeds of their sale, an income of 50 pounds was created, of which a notable Viervillais took the capital. Unfortunately he placed him with a resident of Formigny who died insolvent. The investment having been made without the knowledge of the administrators of the good of the poor and without their consent, it was right that the heirs of the notable continue to serve the annuity. (Excerpt from the notice written in 1813 on the former parish priests of Vierville, by Pierre Le Paulmier)
The school thus founded by Nicolas Le Monnier complied with the regulations of Bishop de Nesmond.
But the successor of this great bishop, Bishop de la Trémoille, regretted writing on September 26, 1717: "In the complaints made to us that the Vierville schoolmaster receives girls with boys of a fairly advanced age and that he does not do catechism, we forbade the schoolmaster and forbade him to do any function until the priest is happy with his conduct."
This was the religious legislation of the past, legislation that Bishop de Nesmond recalled in the Education Plan published at the end of the 17th century, a plan that in 1873 a Minister of the Republic examined before drawing up his draft law on public education.
The parish school of Vierville was only temporarily closed in 1717... It was held by Nicolas-François Demortemer in 1783. Teaching continued there until the Second Empire. So we brought the school closer to the church and the public school located on Pavée Street. The teacher, Mr. Diesny, owner of the old house on Bertin Street, left it to his heirs: his grandson, Mr. Mouillard, sold it to Mrs. de Bughas to house agricultural workers.
Just before the Revolution, the girls of Vierville were instructed by the nun of Providence of Sées holding school in Louvières, a school that was sold with the furniture of the Sister, on 24 frimaire year V (December 15, 1797) and bought by Pierre James, at the same time as the property of the parish.