Boullay-les-Troux

Boullay-les-Troux is a common French, located in the department of the the Essonne and the area Île-de-France.

The inhabitants name the boullaisiens and les' boullaisiennes' .

Geography

The commune is located on the plate of the Hurepoix.

Localities and variations

Before the Second world war, the section Saint-Rémy-the-Chevreuse - Limours of the Ligne of Seals served the commune of Boullay-les-Troux, with the locality which is always called the station of Boullay .

Communes bordering

Molières, Saint-Rémy-the-Chevreuse, Choisel, Chevreuse.

Common neighbors

Cernay, Limours.

History

The village was called Troux in the beginning. It belonged to the templiers at the 12th century. Its name evolved/moved during time: Troux, Tros, Barters and Troux at the 16th century. Boullay was added starting from 1863.

About 1490, honourable man and saige Guillaume Basin, doctor, regent in the medical college of Paris, lord of the stronghold of Troux lez Chevreuse…

October 5th, 1579, noble Nicolas man Grant, lord of Troux, ordinary doctor of the roy constitutes a revenue…

1644, Anne Hennequin, widow of the lord of Marly, being done extremely of Alexandre Legrand, exchanges the ground and seigniory of Troux with Anne Desault, widow of the Viscount of Corbeil, against revenues. The latter will resell it in Guillaume Dugué in 1650.

It was bought in 1646 by Guillaume Dugué de Bagnols which embellishes the hotel seigneurial; he was an enthusiastic friend of Port-Royal and accepted at his place the Janséniste S obliged to disperse in 1661; he bought also the hamlet of Montabé.

Until 1939, the commune was served by the Ligne of Seals.

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