Grosrouvre

Grosrouvre is a common French, located in the department of the Yvelines and the area Île-de-France.

Its inhabitants is called the Grosrouvrois .

Geography

Grosrouvre is located at the south-west of the Plaine of Montfort-l' Amaury, with four kilometers in the west of this city, in northern limit of the main forest of Rambouillet. Versailles, the prefecture, is to about thirty kilometers to the east and Rambouillet, the sub-prefecture, with a score of kilometers in the south.

The habitat is extremely dispersed there and the commune, for a tiny population, is divided into several hamlets: Aubris , hamlet which acts as center village with the town hall and the church, the rogneux Oak , Surie , Troche , Haizettes , the Bush .

The communes bordering are Tail-the-Yvelines in north, Galluis in the North-East, Méré in the east, Montfort-l' Amaury with the east-south-east, Saint-Leger-in-Yvelines in south-east, Gambaiseuil in the south and the west, Gambais in the North-West and Millemont with the extreme north-north-west on approximately 150 meters.

History

The name of Grosrouvre comes from the word reopens which indicates a oak of size lower than the average, word which derives from Latin robur who means at the same time force and oak .

Culture

Inheritance

Saint Martin's day Church: church of massive architecture, Romance style of XIIe century, modified at the XVIIe century, classified historic building by decree of July 4th, 1995.
Castle of Mormaire (XVIIe century).
After the First World War one momunent with deaths, carved by Auguste Cornu was set up in the fields of the architect Emmanuel Pontremoli.

Economy

Grosrouvre is before a a whole rural district thus with agricultural economics or sylvestre.
The habitat in is primarily residential. There is many second home the Parisian ones.

Demography

The commune, of intermediate size, is populated very little so much so that the density of 61 inhabitants to the km ² is almost ten times lower than that of its neighbor, Montfort-l' Amaury, and almost four times less than that of Galluis.
The number of inhabitants is there even lower today than its level of two centuries ago. It D-increases very slowly after the rural migration of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century because of the taste of the townsmen for the old countryside and houses.

Personalities related to the commune

Robert Merle passed the end of its life in its residence of Malmaison in the hamlet of the Chêne Rogneux (of which it gave the name to the seigniory of Pierre de Siorac in his series Fortune of France ). The companion of Pierre, Miroul, becomes baron of Surie , name of another hamlet of Grosrouvre.
François Pinault, president of the Pinault-Spring-Redoute group (PPR), has the castle of Mormaire. In the park of the castle, one finds many statues of art comtemporain.
the collector Ernest May (unknown dates, but active about 1930).

See too

Internal bonds

Common of Yvelines

External bonds

particular Site on Grosrouvre
Seen air of the commune of Grosrouvre on the site of IAURIF
Grosrouvre on the site of IGN
Grosrouvre on the site of INSEE
Grosrouvre on Google Maps:

Situation and plan
Seen satellite

Plane of intendance of the parish of Grosrouvre on the site of the files of Yvelines

Gallery

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