Le Pallet

Le Pallet is a commune with 3029 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Loire -Atlantique in the Pays de la Loire; it belongs to the district of Nantes and the Canton Vallet. It is the administrative center of the wine region Sevre -et- Maine, famous for its dry Muscadet and Gros Plant wines. The inhabitants are called Palletais or Palletaises.

Geography

The village lies on the banks of the river Sevre Nantaise and at its right tributary, the Sanguèze.

History

Le Pallet (Latin palatium ) existed at least since the 6th century. Probably standing here at the end of the Visigoths - time in France, a West Gothic palatium ( = site of action of a secular or ecclesiastical dignitary ), which was its name to the place.

The now lying in ruins Donjon of Le Pallet was once the largest Romanesque square -Donjon west of France. It was built around the year 984 by the Angevin Count Gottfried gray jacket on the Sevre Nantaise, as a border stronghold to the nearby county of Nantes and the stone has become a symbol of the change of power from the Carolingian to Capetian dynasty. With its establishment, the Count of Anjou sought not only the control of the fertile Sevre Valley and the access routes to the County of Poitou, but to win in the long hegemony in the south of the Loire, on the border of Pays de Retz. In this context, it was through the Angevin Mission also the nearby monastery Vertou, which had suffered greatly by the Norman raids, re-founded as an offshoot of Saint- Jouin -de- Marnes, which the priory of Saint- Etienne operation in Le Pallet. Only under Gottfried gray jacket son, Fulk Nerra, the Angevin conquest were abandoned at the Sevre Nantaise again and then returned to the border of Anjou to the east. The Donjon of Le Pallet fell back to this in the regional insignificance.

In 1079 the philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard was born in the shadow of Donjon for a longer period of peace.

In 1420 the donjon was destroyed on the occasion of the campaign against Margherita of Clisson ( daughter of V. Olivier Clisson ) and their sons, in which the fortress Champtoceaux fell on the Loire down to the ground and not rebuilt since then.

Attractions

  • Chapel Sainte -Anne, Romanesque, 11-12. century; List of Monuments historiques, the only remnant of a three- apses plant that never quite came to run ( later to become parish church of Saint -Vincent )
  • Ruins of the donjon, 10th century, destroyed in 1420
  • Castle hill of Le Pallet, today Calvary
  • Chapel Saint- Jean du Goheaux ( ruin) 15th century
  • Ruins of the castle La Galissonnière, 15th century, the headquarters of General Charette
  • Age dovecote
  • Mill tower and two Wassen mills on the Sanguèze
  • Church, 18th century and 19th century, Neo-Romanesque
  • Chapel Saint- Michel, 18th century
  • La Grange, a former Templerhof, remnants of the 15th century
  • Remains of the priory of Saint- Etienne, 10th century

Personalities

  • Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was born in Le Pallet
Arrondissement Arrondissement of Nantes Cantons of France Postal codes in France Keep Geoffrey I, Count of Anjou Carolingian dynasty Fulk III, Count of Anjou Romanesque art 11th century Romanesque Revival architecture
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