Chanceaux-near-loaches

See also: Chanceaux (homonymy)

Chanceaux-near-Loaches is a common French of the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the area Center.

Its inhabitants is called Chancellois, Chancelloises.

Geography

  • the village is located at 5 km of Loches on the road of Dolus-the-Dryness, in Western North.
In the middle of a forest, the principal alley of the village east bordered of majestic plane trees and centenaries.

History

  • the ground of Chanceaux belonged until in 1792 to the Marquis of Fayette.
An exposure of painters in August and especially since September 1995 the Forest of the Books transform this village of 143 h. into an anthill of 30.000 hearts for one weekend

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999

Places and monuments

  • the general inventory of the Inheritance counts a partly ploughed up lime kiln and a tilery.
  • Of beautiful traditional houses surrounds a small church dating from XIIe century.
  • a private castle overhangs the small valley, it was built at the end of the XIXe century by the Schneider family.
  • single and charming restoring named beautiful the époque" "

Personalities related to the commune

  • the writer Gonzague Saint creative Breaking of the literary event the Forest of the Books has a pretty Bavarian country cottage built close to the castle which belonged formerly to its family.
  • the fresco of the writers, painted on the walls of the country cottage by the artist Armand Langlois recalls us that the Touraine and Lochois particularly were the cradle of authors and famous writers: Paul-Louis Courier, Honore de Balzac and Rene Descartes, Alfred de Vigny and Anatole France, Racan, François Rabelais and Ronsard, Georges Courteline, Jules Romain, Henri Bergson, Rene Boylesve.
  • has fine XXe century and at the beginning of XXIe century, the main street saw passing all the personalities of the literature, the cinema, or television.
  • In 2005, the Prince and the Princess Michael de Kent remained at the village time the one weekend and a small surmounted bridge of a platform created by Armand Langlois was inaugurated on this occasion on the initiative of Gonzague Saint Breaking.

See too

  • Common of Indre-et-Loire

External bonds

  • the site of the Inheritance of France.
  • the official site of the forest of the Books.

  • Chanceaux-near-Loaches on the site of INSEE

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