Bourdonné
Bourdonné is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.
Its inhabitants is called the Bourdonnéens .
Geography
The commune of Bourdonné is located in the median west of the department, with the western limit of the main forest of Rambouillet. It is, by the road, with approximately 39 kilometers in the west of Versailles and with approximately 30 kilometers in the south of Mantes-the-Pretty, the chief town of district. Houdan, chief town of canton, is with six kilometers with north and Rambouillet with 21 kilometers in south-east.The communes bordering are Gambais in north, Gambaiseuil in the east, Cop-on-Vesgre in the south, Boutigny-Prouais (Eure-et-Loir) in south-west and Dannemarie in the west.
The communal territory is primarily rural (93%) and strongly wooded (approximately 40%), in particular in its part is (western edge of the Forêt of Rambouillet) and in its western part. It is crossed in the direction south-north by the Vesgre (affluent of the the Eure). The dress, in addition to the borough centers, is distributed in several dispersed hamlets: Chaudejoute, Hermeray, Recess, Hedges, Court of the hedges.
The commune is crossed by the secondary road 983 which carries out, towards north, with Gambais and, towards the south, with Cop-on-Vesgre then Nogent-the-King in the department close to Eure-et-Loir. The secondary road 61 starts in the center of the village and carries out towards the north-north-west to Houdan. More in the south and apart from the village, the secondary road 936 led, towards south-east, with Saint-Leger-in-Yvelines then Rambouillet and Saint-Arnoult-in-Yvelines.
In the railway plan, the station the SNCF nearest is the Gare of Houdan to a few seven kilometers in north.
History
The name of the village knew various variations during time: Bourdoniacum , Burdeniacum , Bordenatum , Bordené , Bordener , Bourdonnay . This name would derive from a German patronym, Burco and Gallo-Roman suffix - acum , indicating the name of a field.
The territory is very in the past inhabited. One indeed found there prehistoric axes out of polished stone and 1899, at the time of work, hundreds of Roman parts to the effigy of the emperor Antonin the Piles. It was at the time Gallic in the field of the Carnutes.
It was attached starting from 1317 to the county of Montfort.
In 1570, several ground districts of the Abbey of Grandchamp, pertaining to the monastery, were alienated by order of the king and were bought by Pierre de Bourdonné.
The village was attached to the canton of Houdan in 1803. It was occupied by the Prussians twice in 1815 and 1870.
Economy
- Agriculture, horticulture, breeding.
- Common residential.
Culture
- Saint Martin's day Church: stone building of Romance style dating from the 13th century. A side chapel was built at the 17th century.
- the castle, located on the road of Houdan, dates initially from the 17th century and was increased and altered with 18th and 19th centuries. The castle and its vault, built in 1733, were classified historic buildings in November 1946. The commun runs of the 17th century, the ditches and the park were it in 1989. It is today the property of the sister of the singer Charles Aznavour.
Personalities related to the commune
- the poet Jose María de Heredia is deceased with the castle of Bourdonné the October 2nd 1905. A commemorative plaque with the effigy of the poet was affixed on the frontage of the castle at the time of the centenary of its death.