Boissets

Boissets is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Boissétins . __TOC

Geography

The commune of Boissets is in the west of Yvelines, with the limit of the Eure-et-Loir, and in the south of the Mantois, with approximately twenty kilometers in the south-west of Mantes-the-Pretty and with nine kilometers in the north of Houdan, the chief town of canton.

It is bordering on Civry-the-Forest in the east, of Gressey in south-east, the Saint-Lubin-of-the-Hague in the south, Berchères-on-Vesgre in south-west (these two last communes belong to the Eure-et-Loir) and of Tilly in north.

The communal territory, relatively restricted, extends on the plate from Mantois to approximately 130 meters from altitude light inclined towards north. It is irrigated by the Vaucouleurs, small river tributary of the the Seine which occurs close to the church of the village and runs out towards north. The territory is primarily rural (with nearly 90%) and not very wooded (approximately 10%).

The habitat is grouped in the borough which is excentré in extreme cases even department. The main street follows this limit partly.

Boissets is served by the secondary road 115, North-South, which connects Longnes to Dannemarie while following the western limit of Yvelines and by the secondary road 166 which follows a East-West orientation.

History

Boissets was occupied in 1590 by the army of the chief of the Ligue, the Duc of Mayenne, which prepared with the Bataille of Ivry, and suffered from plunderings.

Until the Second world war, the oratory of Saint-Odon was the object of a popular pilgrimage. This saint was called upon in the event of dryness to cause the rain.

The commune is attached to the canton of Houdan in 1802.

Economy

Agriculture, breeding.

Culture

Inheritance

Saint-Hilaire Church: stone building of XVe century, restored in 1979 and 1999 (classified Historic building on March 6th 1950).
Oratorical of Saint-Odon: located close to the bedside of the church, this oratory is built on the source of Vaucouleurs. It is devoted to holy Odon, second abbot of Cluny.
Laundrette of the XIXe century
Park of Douaire
communal Lodging: the town hall went owner of a residence in ruins near the church Saint-Hilaire and into a rural lodging of three rooms restored it in order to transform it, labellized Gîtes of France (n° 1108), and which received four ears for its classification.
Garden of the scents: an original initiative of the communal team was to place at the disposal of Boissétins a garden, located near the sources of the Vaucouleurs, where they can come to gather various culinary aromatic herbs. Maintenance is ensured by it by Michelle, communal employee, who also deals with the lodging.

; Sources of Vaucouleurs Just behind the Saint-Hilaire church, the sources of the Vaucouleurs are. The site was superbly arranged: at an end, the oratory of Saint-Odon, with the other, a small stopping-outfall creating, owe the oratory, a small lake of reserve in which sourdent the sources and where push watery grasses, two small bridges spanning the arms of the incipient river, the raised whole of forsythia S, of Saule S and of Peuplier S. In the vicinity immediate, on the wall external of the lodging, is exposed a fresco which represents the villages and the churches located on the course of Vaucouleurs, of Boissets with Mantes-the-City ; it was carried out by the ceramics club of the rural household of Boissets for the inauguration of the installation of the source of Vaucouleurs.

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