Loroux-Bottereau

Loroux-Bottereau is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire. Historically the commune is located in Brittany, in the area of the Nantes Vineyard.

Its inhabitants are the lorousains and lorousaines .

Geography

History

Its name recalls that the agglomeration developed around a modest oratory (Oratorio/Oratorium, from where " Loroux"), then of a castle pertaining to the Botterel family at the 12th century. At the time of the French revolution, Loroux-Bottereau lined up mainly in the camp of the Vendean royalists and catholics. Lorousains belonged to the army of Cart in 1793. In February and March 1794, the infernal Columns of Cordelier devastated the country, making some 1000 dead. Plates and crosses posed on the initiative of the Renoul family during the XIX and XXe century perpetuate the memory of this period, in particular in Bas-Briacé (today in Landreau), marked by the martyrdom of Andre Ripoche.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Loroux-Bottereau has one of the four statues of the king Louis XVI still existing in France, work of the sculptor Dominique Molknecht in 1823 (with in particular that of the Place Marshal-Foch with Nantes). That which is placed on the square of the church of the borough is a copy (original being with the tourist office). In the month of August 1988, the Groin of Capétiens, Alphonse duke of Anjou, invited by Pierre Renoul and the municipality, deposited a sheaf of white lilies there. The king Charles X had already honoured Loroux-Bottereau by offering to him a painting of Jean-Baptiste Saint, exposed in the church. In Loroux-Bottereau, for its valiancy and its bravery during the Wars of the Vendée. The church was built under the mandate of Aymé-Simon Renoul, mayor under the second empire.

It is as on the territory of the commune as one can find one of the wine museums of most complete of France, installed in the old abbey of Holy-Radegonde: its collection sweeps all the history of the vine, the wine and the trades connected with this branch of industry. Official site of the Museum of the Abbey of Holy-Radegonde

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

Loroux-Bottereau official site
Loroux-Bottereau on the site of the national geographical Institute
Loroux-Bottereau on the site of INSEE
Loroux-Bottereau on the site of Quid
Localization of Loroux-Bottereau on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Loroux-Bottereau on Mapquest

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