Chief-button

Chief-Buttons is a common French, located in the department of the Two-Sevres and the area Poitou-Charentes.

Geography

Chief-button is located at the south of the department of the Two-Sevres to 80 km of Poitiers, 100 km of La Rochelle, 40 km of Niort and with 60 km of Angouleme.

This small village of countryside owes its name with the Rivière the Boutonne, which takes its source in the middle of the city, under the Lavoir of the street of the fountain , from where the name of " chef" for the head of Buttons.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the old street of the Castle become which occurred of the wire Fouquaud which recalls that they were shot by the Germans in 1944.
  • the which occurred Louis Proust recalls that this young person Résistant was shot at the age of sixteen years and half. This " avenue" starts from a place which was the Place of the Market where there were markets demolished in 1787.
  • With Chief-Buttons the official designations do not make differences between an avenue and a street. Thus the avenue Louis Proust is prolonged by a street, that of the Town hall and Schools, of the same importance, of the same width, in same alignment, forming part of what is called quite simply and more precisely the avenue of Javarzay and of which the unit comes owing to the fact that it does not result from an assembly of sections but from an intentional creation in 1738.
  • the Cross Perrine : the name of this small place existed already in 1654 and it undoubtedly has its origin in the chaplaincy that there was formerly. It was a charitable establishment accommodating the beggars, the pilgrims during their peregrinations, equipped with a vault to request, of a cemetery and which naturally was to have a cross. It was removed under Louis XIV in 1696.
  • the Grand' Maison draws the attention by its architecture. In the triangular pediment which is above the door one could read inside the medallion an inscription Latin E affirming that " the fear of the Seigneur is the beginning of the sagesse". It is gone back to 1567 and, as the Prostestant S liked to engrave biblical quotations at the entry of their residence, one can suppose that the " Grand' Maison" by a Protestant in 1567.
was built

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Two-Sevres

External bonds

  • Chief-Buttons
  • on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Chief-Buttons on the site of INSEE
  • Chief-Buttons on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Chief-Buttons on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plan on Chief-Buttons on Mapquest

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