Mazangé

Mazangé is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center. Its inhabitants is called Mazangéennes and Mazangéens.

Geography

Mazangé is located at 11 km in the west of Vendôme close to the RD 5 which connects Vendôme to Savigny-on-Sling and the RD 24 which connects Vendôme to Montoire-on-the-Dormouse.

Along the RD 5, between the commune of Villiers-on-Dormouse and the locality " The Ford of Loir" (commune of Mazangé) one can still observe habitat troglodyte at the village of Saint-Andrew. With the locality " The Ford of Loir" one can still distinguish the remainders from the " Fort" , species of natural cavity, located in height, and which was used as observation post for the guetteurs of the castle of Vendôme. In this place, the river the Bolt is thrown in the Dormouse after having traversed approximately 30 kilometers including 5 pennies ground. Not far from there, the river of Mazangé, supplied with a natural source of 100 m ³ /h, is thrown in the Bolt. Very close draws up the manor " The bonaventure" , whose ditches were formerly fed by this river. Two mills were established on this river of which one still exists, the mill of Echoiseau, transformed into lodging.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Saint-Lubin church

In the middle of the village rises the Saint-Lubin church. Four periods of construction are counted:

- at the 11th century, a chorus and a nave of Romance style;

- fine 12th century, addition of a tower of bell-tower;

- /16e century, lengthened nave of 9,50 m west coast, widened of 2,50 m southern part and flattened of 2 Mr. Construction of 5 buttresses and the lengthening of the chorus of 5 m

- /17e century, construction of the stone arrow.

Inside the nave one still distinguishes from the murals. The vault is in skirting in not painted thirds and carries the date of 1563 the frame to tie-beams and punches date from the beginning 16th century and are decorated medallions and escutcheons. The church was classified in 1948. During several centuries the Saint-Lubin church belonged to the chapter of Chartres.

The laundrette

The principal laundrette of Mazangé is located at 350 meters of the center of the borough. It is fed by a source whose flow is of 100 m ³ /heure. Length of 42,50m, it is the largest laundrette known in the department of the Loir-et-Cher. With open sky, it was covered into 1938/39. To 23 lavender fields worked at the same time. Today still some people come to wash cloths there.

The tomb of the captain Henry Viot

At the time of the war of 1870/71, a heavy artillery detachment of the French Army was posted with the place known as " Hacherie". Key component of French defense, this detachment was badgered by the Prussians who succeeded after a long day of battle. The captain Viot, one of the officers was mortally touched with the abdomen by a glare of shell. Looked after by a Prussian doctor, it remained on the spot in the house of one of the inhabitants of Mazangé. He died in atrocious sufferings three days later. He was buried at the place where he fell. Its close relations, Nantes (44), went night in the barouche on the spot, unearthed it and buried it in Nantes, city where it was born. For the memory of this man, his family offered this monument which one can always visit. In the communal cemetery are buried still 17 other French soldiers, fallen during this battle.

The polishing brush

Species of enormous stones, the family of flints, at the bottom of a brook and whose legend says that Gargantua, being invited to a feast in the area, stopped one moment at the edge of the brook to remove a small stone of its boot. Once set out again, the inhabitants noted the presence of this stone in their brook. During centuries, everyone came to sharpen there the knives and another blades of forgery and sickles before the harvest of corns. This place is registered with the repertory of the classified sites.

Personalities related to the commune

The September 12th 2006, Mrs Suzanne Marsollier was honoured on a purely posthumous basis with the title with " Just among the nations" to have lodged and saved, with the danger of its life and that of its family, a Jewish little girl during the second world war.

In 1947, a commemorative plaque was posed on a wall of the bell-tower of the church Saint Lubin in memory of Mrs. Berthe Durfort, resistant She was denounced and perishes in concentration camp to have hidden during a certain time of the English aviators. The place of the church bears its name.

The poet and writer Alfred de Musset remained very often with the locality " The Ford of Loir" where his/her parents had a manor. This manor, " Bonaventure" , whose origins go back to the time of Templiers which had acquired it near the personal surgeon of Louis XIV. It composed there of many works. In the enclosure of the manor one plays a part of the author from time to time.

See too

Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

Mazangé, the site
the Community of communes of Rural Vendômois
Mazangé on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mazangé on the site of INSEE
Mazangé on the site of Quid
Localization of Mazangé on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mazangé on Mapquest

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