Corsept

Corsept is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

The common belongs to the historical Brittany, in the traditional country of the Pays of Retz and in the historical country of the Nantes Pays. The inhabitants of the commune name the Corseptins and Corseptines .

Geography

Corsept is located at 9 km in the south-east of Saint-Nazaire and 50 km in the west of Nantes.
the northern part of the common longe the Estuary of the the Loire.
the communes bordering on Corsept are Saint-Brévin-the-Pines, Saint-Father-in-Retz and Paimbœuf.

History

Seventh parish of the edges of the Loire created by Saint Martin's day of vertou, it accepted the name of " Septimum" corpus; who became Corsept.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1853 - 1861 || Charles the Russet-red one ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1904 - 1925 || Joseph the Russet-red one ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1971 - 1995 || Joseph Keyboard ||align=" center" | ||

Demography

Places and monuments

Pasquiaud , in edge of the Loire in the estuary, opposite Donges, was one of the dwellings of the painter Nantes landscape designer Charles the Russet-red one (1814-1895). His wife Marie Euphémie Affilé accepted this field in 1848, of the hands of her negotiating grandfather with Paimboeuf. The couple received the friends painters there: Daubigny, Theodore Rousseau, Gustave Gilded, Louis Cabat, Camille Corot (the bouquets painted on the walls of the living room are allotted to him) etc… Charles the Russet-red one had his workshop in a nearby mill: the Perret mill. One can see with the museum of Orsay table " Meadow and marsh of Corsept to the mouth of the Loire in August " presented to the Living room of 1859.

Personalities related to the commune

Charles the Russet-red : Painter landscape designer born and died in Nantes (1814-1895) resided and worked in Corsept in Pasquiaud where it accepted many times his friends painters of the school of Barbizon. Corot, of which he was pupil and especially friend painted bouquets (according to the family tradition) on the walls of the living room where one can still see them… Charles the Russet-red one carried out many tables of the estuary of the Loire, Corsept, Paimboeuf and in the surroundings (St Brevin, Préfailles, Pornic, Batz, Croisic, Escoublac), like with Low-Indre, Nantes, Separates it, Erdre… Many of these works were exposed to the " salon" in Paris between 1834 and end of the XIXe century.

Charles the Russet-red one had also very a vast domain in Two-Sevres (the Shoes) and it exerted its art in completely different landscapes there…

It painted approximately 300 paintings whose majority remained in its family. Only some are visible in French museums (museum of Orsay to Paris, museum of the Art schools of Nantes, Besancon, Montpellier, Bressuire…) and still: Ministry for the War veterans, Departmental records of Loire-Atlantique. Sometimes it sometimes happens to see some passing in public sales (Christie' S in 2005 and 2006).

See too

Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

Official site of the Federation of the Country of Retz
Corsept on the site of the Country of Retz
Tourist site on the town of Corsept
Corsept on the site of the national geographical Institute
Corsept on the site of INSEE
Corsept on the site of Quid
Localization of Corsept on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Corsept on Mapquest

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