Fontenay-le-Comte

Fontenay -le- Comte is a commune with 14,204 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Vendée in the Pays de la Loire; it is the administrative center for the district of Fontenay -le- Comte, capital of Canton Fontenay -le- Comte, and which was established in 2011 Municipal Association Pays de Fontenay -le- Comte.

Geography

Fontenay -le- Comte is located in the plane of the Southern Vendée on the banks of the River Vendee.

History

1242 Fontenay is the capital of the Bas -Vendée. They besieged the Protestant city during the Wars of eight times, 1621, the castle was razed. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes destroyed the economic base of Fontenay.

1790 is Fontenay- le -Comte ( ie during the revolution Fontenay -le- Peuple ) capital of the new département of Vendée. 1804 Napoleon moved the Prefecture to La Roche- sur- Yon, 1812 Fontenay is sub-prefecture.

Demographics

Attractions

  • The Fontaine des Quatre Tias ( 1542)
  • The churches of Notre -Dame -et-Saint -Jean ( 15th century )
  • Hôtel de la Sénéchaussée ( 1595 )
  • Castle Terre -Neuve (16th century)
  • Musée de Fontenay

Twinning

  • Crevillent, Spain, since 1968
  • Gaoua, Burkina Faso, since 1989
  • Krotoszyn, Poland, since 1994
  • Palatine, USA, since 1997
  • Diosig, Romania, since 1997

Personalities

  • François Rabelais (* approximately 1494 or 1483, † 1553), prose -writer of the French Renaissance
  • François Viète (1540-1603), lawyer and mathematician
  • Augustin Daniel Belliard (1769-1832), General
  • Georges Simenon (1903-1989), writer, lived from 1940 to 1942 in the city and moved here also his novel Maigret 's afraid to.
Arrondissement Arrondissement of Fontenay-le-Comte Cantons of France Postal codes in France France La Roche-sur-Yon Palatine (Illinois) Augustin-Daniel Belliard
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