Arçonnay

Arçonnay is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is Arçonnéens.

Geography

Common Southerner of the agglomeration of Alençon, Arçonnay is located in edge of the Trunk road 138, main motor of her development in second half of the 20th century. It is about a commune properly périurbaine, divided between a retail park into full rise since the Nineties and of the private housing estates.

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are: Alençon, Saint-Germain-of-Corbéis the, Champfleur, Héloup, Bérus.

History

Etymology

The name of Arçonnay would have a Gallo-Roman origin. It would come from " arx " (palate) and of " idiot " (fortress). the parish A first church built at the place called now " the Old Borough " was devoted at the end of the 13th century by the bishop Jean de Chanlay.
Arçonnay was formerly deanery of Lignière, archidoyenné of Saonois, diocese and election of the Mans.
The seigniory of parish, attached to the ground and castle of Maleffre, belonged to the Paulmier house of the Bubble. Maleffre was a strengthened castle, surrounded by douves.
The parish had several other strongholds, such as the Knighthood and Margot Wood. The territory of Arçonnay extended until the the Sarthe, which constituted the limit between the Maine and the Normandy, thus including the current district of Montsort.
Construction, by the Drouin Abbot, of the current church to the hamlet of Saint-Blaise, was completed in 1848.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Famous characters

Burgundian Jean-Baptiste of Anville (° with Paris in 1697 - 1782), geographer. It belongs to the Academy of the Inscriptions and Belles Letters. As of 1773 it enters to the Academy of Science, is named first geographer of the king Louis XV.

Tourist monuments and places

See too

Common of the Sarthe

External bonds

Official site

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