Issoudun

Issoudun is a commune with 12,931 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the department of Indre in the Centre region. The city is crossed by the river Théols.

History

Located halfway between Bourges and Chateauroux Gallic settlement Uxeldunum was a strategically located village. It was destroyed during the conquest by Caesar and rebuilt later. Also in the feud between Richard the Lionheart and Philip Augustus, the place was controversial, but was able to withstand these and other threats. After the French Revolution the place lost its importance. As a new capital for the department of Indre Châteauroux has been selected. At the end of the 14th century, Issoudun was a center of Marian devotion and is still today a place of pilgrimage. Since 1950 the region has been inhabited by many to Issoudun shortwave radio stations that transmit radio french abroad. The great transmitter of the transmitter operator TDF among other things Radio France International, used Radio Taiwan International, Radio Japan and some other international, as well as smaller broadcasters.

On December 8, 1854 by Father Jules Chevalier in Issoudun, diocese of Bourges, the Congregation of the Sacred Heart Missionaries ( Mission Aires du Sacré-Cœur d' Issoudun; Latin: missionarii sacratissimi cordis in short, MSC or MSC ) was founded.

Attractions

• Tour Blanche ( Donjon from the 12th century )
• Museum of Saint- Roch- Hospice: It is located in the monastery, which was founded in the 12th century and rebuilt in the 15th century. The building contains a chapel and a ward of the 15th century, and two side wings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Personalities

• Auguste Borget (1808-1877), painter
• Maurice La Chatre (1814-1900), writer

Others

Issoudun is the scene of the plot of the novel La Rabouilleuse by Honoré de Balzac.

2009, the community was a stage of the Tour de France for the first time.