Ferté-Beauharnais

See also: Beauharnais

Ferté-Beauharnais is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Known in the past small village of 471 inhabitants under the name of “Ferté-Avrain”. Ferté-Avrain thus was renamed in 1764 under the marquisat of François de Beauharnais.

In addition to its castle and its church, Ferté-Beauharnais is equipped with a pond, a fairground, a cemetery, a nursery school, an elementary school, a football field, a mini-market, a carpark, a room of festival, and a restaurant. The town hall and the school date from the second Empire, on the initiative of Napoleon III itself.

The broadest tree of the village is a sequoia baptized “the suppository” and which has as a characteristic to be able to be very easily climbed. He was struck down on several occasions.

The fair of Ferté-Beauharnais takes place each year the June 11th, day of the Saint-Barnabe. It attracts many visitors.

Geography

Ferté-Beauharnais is located on the Beuvron at the crossing of the secondary roads 922 and 923, between Neung-on-Beuvron and Romorantin-Lanthenay. In addition to the secondary roads, the main axe is the Way of the Virginals, which connects the fairground to the Cross of the Islands, located on secondary road 923, at the North-eastern end of the village. Ferté-Beauharnais skirts Beuvron, but the back turns to him.

History

The village was probably born from the monastic clearings of the 11th century. The Herve archdeacon would have thus founded a collegiate church in 1033. The church St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre founded in 1149 and is rebuilt in 1524 after being destroyed about the middle of the 12th century. There remain today only some ruins of the castle of the Middle Ages (" Castle-Vieux"), the stones were useful in particular for the surrounding dwellings. An underground, since walled, left the Castle, and according to the tradition went to the Church, and some houses of the village which always exist. If the entry is visible, no exit was officially discovered.

The castle where lived François de Beauharnais always exists.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

==Personnalities related to the commune==

See too

  • Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

  • Loire-France.com
  • the dynasty of Beauharnais
  • Madeleine Chenon and association “Around Beauharnais”
  • the church St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  • Group of Archaeological and Historical Searchs for the Sologne
  • Ferté-Beauharnais on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Ferté-Beauharnais on the site of INSEE
  • Ferté-Beauharnais on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Ferté-Beauharnais on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane of Ferté-Beauharnais on Mapquest

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