Meslay-le-Vidame

See also: Meslay

Meslay-le-Vidame is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

Geography

History

  • Meslay-le-Vidame was called Meslay-the-Wood during the Révolution.

  • 1827 : Meslay-le-Vidame absorbs Andeville .

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Church Etienne saint, of the 19th century classified historic building. Its construction, of 1810 to 1816, in be allocated to the Viscount Charles Henry Dambray who addressed to the architect Nicolas-Antoine Vestier, the son of the painter Antoine Vestier, for his design. Vestier adopts for the church of Meslay the Greek Doric order, then with the mode, while adapting it; thus, for the frontage, the peristyle is supported by six pillars in truncated pyramid but without the characteristics grooves of this kind, capped of a triangular pediment thus pointing out an ancient temple. Nicolas-Antoine Vestier took certainly as a starting point the frontage of the Rotonde from the Villette in Paris due to Claude Nicolas Ledoux so much the resemblance to that of the church of Meslay is obvious.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

  • the country Dunois

  • Meslay-le-Vidame on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Meslay-le-Vidame on the site of INSEE
  • Meslay-le-Vidame on the site of Quid
  • the communes closest to Meslay-le-Vidame
  • Meslay-le-Vidame on Mapquest
  • Meslay-le-Vidame on Viamichelin

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