Thouars

Thouars is a commune with 9622 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Deux -Sèvres in the Poitou -Charentes; it belongs to the district Parthenay and is the capital of the two cantons Thouars Thouars -1 and -2

Geography

The city is located in the north of the department of Deux -Sèvres on a plateau that dominates the river Thouet, a tributary of the Loire. Neighboring cities are: Parthenay, Parthenay, Saumur, Loudun.

History

  • The name comes from Tudae arx ( citadel over the Thouet ).
  • Pepin the Short and his son, the future Charles the Great, pillaged and destroyed the Gallo-Roman city in the year 762
  • The Hundred Years' War Thouars was alternately occupied by the British and the French.
  • Bertrand du Guesclin captured Thouars after a long siege, finally, on November 30, 1372 for France.
  • The viscounty Thouars was in the 16th century imposed for the benefit of La Trémoille the Duchy ( duché ) and to the peerage (see Duchy of Thouars ).
  • Thouars was during the Wars of Religion a stronghold of Protestantism, but lost after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ( 1685) under Louis XIV, a large part of its population.

Demographics

Attractions

  • The Thouars (1635-1638) the castle was up to the extinction of the line in 1933, the residence of the Dukes of La Trémoille.
  • The city walls, towers and Remparts originally date from the 12th and 13th centuries, but were renewed and rebuilt again and again: The Tour du Prince de Galles was temporarily used for storage of grain stores.
  • The mighty Porte au Prévôt is laterally bordered by two semi-circular projecting towers.

Gallery

Thouars, Church of St- Medard, nave

Thouars, Church St- Laon, facade

Thouars, Church St- Laon, nave

Others

After the city and the nearby fossil finds the geological age of the Toarcian is ( 183.0 to 175.6 million years BC), one of the four sub-sections of the Lower Jurassic, named.

Personalities

  • Jean -Hugues Anglade ( born 1955 ), actor
  • Prosper Depredomme (1918-1997), Belgian cyclist

Twinning

Poitou-Charentes Arrondissement Arrondissement of Bressuire Cantons of France Postal codes in France Bressuire Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France Louis XI of France Jean-Hugues Anglade Oiron
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