Beaupréau

Beaupréau (" Bellum Pratellum or " Beautiful meadow ") is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Town of 6000 inhabitants, located close to Cholet.

Gentilé

Bellopratains and Belloprataines.

To see

  • the Castle . Built under the Count Foulques Nerra, the castle of Beaupréau belonged to a chain of fortifications to protect the Anjou from the Marches from Brittany. It accommodated King Charles IX in 1565. The medieval castle will know architectural transformations during 10th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 19th and 20th centuries. Its Gothic aspect completion date of the 19th century. During the 20th century, an extension was built in the interior court, perpendicular to the principal body of the building. It belonged to the Marquis de Scépeaux then with its heirs, the Ducs of Blacas. It was sold by the Duke of Blacas with a religious congregation which transformed it into private clinic maternity (1958/1994). With the closing of this one, it was arranged in joint ownership of private apartments, without change of its appearance.
  • the hotel of the Sénéchal of 16th and 19th centuries, ruins some in 1900, and that the Courtois family restored entirely in the years 1930.
  • the church Notre Dame , inaugurated in 1863 and which is one of the large churches of neo-gothic style of the Choletais. It is due to the local architect Alfred Tessier.
  • the war memorial the 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 which has a rare characteristic: in theory civil monument, it is surmounted by a cross!

Administration

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts).

Personalities related to the commune

She saw being born:

- the painter Andre Guinebert,

- the footballer Julien Sourice who plays SCO of Angers,

- the racing cyclist Franck Bouyer of the Bouygues Telecom team.

Courteous Family : middle-class family originating in Ferté Macé, in the Flowering ash.

- François Courtois receives from Colbert a license of hawking to sell fabric, in 1674. The Courtois company develops and, the day before the Revolution, it is supplied massively in Choletais.

- Courteous Louis II, one of the children of Louis Courteous 1st, settles in Beaupréau about 1830 when it founds a small drapery there. Its descendants will develop the trade and will work with the company of weaving " Richard Frères" of Cholet.

- Courteous Louis III buys a small building street Commercial with Beaupréau where it installs a great drapery there. He also buys like country house to Jallais, the castle of Chapronnière.

- Courteous Louis IV marries Juliette Houtin, the sister of the abbot Albert Houtin, cofounder of the " catholic modernism ". He will buy the private mansion of the Seneshal at the end of the lifetime, in 1932, as well as a dozen houses with Beaupréau and many agricultural properties. His/her brother will be first clerk of notary with Beaupréau,

- Louis V Courteous will be notary in Nantes, chair room of the notaries of Brittany. He was stopped by Gestapo like hostage, " fifty otages" from Nantes, in 1941. Released, he will die about it shortly after. He was also professor of organ to the Academy of Nantes and cofounder of the review " the organiste" with the Reverend Père Courtonne. He married Marie Joseph Ecomard in 1929.

- Albert Courtois will be graduate university of the textile and will open a store in Nantes. After the war, it will be decorated with the Legion of Honor.

- Courteous Leon, soldier, will be prisoner of war of 1940 to 1945 in Germany. After the war it will take again the store of Beaupréau with his wife and her sister.

The Courtois store definitively closed its doors in the years 1970.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of Beaupréau
  • Tourist office of Beaupréau
  • Site of the cinema of Beaupréau
  • Situation on a plan
  • Beaupréau on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Beaupréau on the site of INSEE
  • Beaupréau on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Beaupréau on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Beaupréau on Mapquest

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