Saint-Maixent-l'École
Saint- Maixent- l'École is a commune with 7159 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Deux -Sèvres in the Poitou -Charentes; it belongs to the district Niort and is the capital of the cantons of Saint- Maixent- l'École -1 and Saint- Maixent- l'École -2.
History
Saint- Maixent was founded around 459 by the monk Agapit and was initially Saint Saturnin. In the year 480 the monk Adjutor moved on as a student of Agapit. Adjutor later took the name Maixent and gave the city its name.
Attractions
- Medieval buildings
- Saint- Maixent since 1963 the seat of the École Nationale des sous- officiers d' active (hence the name decoration ), in which all non-commissioned officers of the French ground forces are trained.
- The church was built 940 houses the relic of the Holy Maixent and Leger of Autun; It was destroyed by an earthquake, rebuilt in the 11th and 13th century in the Romanesque style; 1668 once again destroyed by Calvinists, it was built again on the Romanesque foundations in the Gothic style.
Personalities
- Leger of Autun ( Saint Léger ), Holy
- Michel Mathieu Lecointe - Puyraveau, French revolutionary
- François Villon died here 1489th
- Pierre -Philippe Denfert -Rochereau (1823-1878), defender of Belfort during the Franco-German War of 1870/ 71 was born here.
- Régis Loisel ( born 1953 ), French comic book artist, was born here.
- Jacques Fouchier (1913-1994), politician
- Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, deputies of the city since 1988