Neuvy-Bouin

Neuvy-Bouin is a common French, located in the department of the Two-Sevres and the area Poitou-Charentes.

The commune of Neuvy-Bouin was formed in 1791 by the fusion of the two communes of Neuvy and Bouin.

Geography

History

The Fradin abbot, priest of Bouin, lent oath to the constitution then retracted. As for the Gée abbot, priest of Neuvy which adopted the same attitude, his retractation was worth to him to be imprisoned with the keep of Niort.

Jacques Chevalier appeared before the marked revolutionary tribunal to have provided vivres to the Vendean insurrectionists. he was condemned to the deportation.

In 1798 the insurrectionists cut down the tree of freedom.

Many inhabitants preferred to exile themselves far from the combat which made rage between the Blue ones and the White. A such widow who had taken refuge in Champdeniers with her six children; the poor woman saw them dying of hunger and cold the ones after the others.

Nowadays

What instigates the commune nowadays are its associations. Here thus:

The Festival Committee, Cuma, Yakan' vy, the OGEC and the Call for the schools as well as a service with the elderly.

The Telethon and the contest of the flowered houses are very active also in Neuvy-Bouin.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Wood of the Hermit

The granitic rocks of the wood of the Hermit are a whole of curious will chirons. The whole is very wide and one can think that there was in very moved back times a worship dedicated to some god or goddess.

One can see there the chiron justice, the cave with the wolves, the vault with the druids, the rock of the Council, the stone of sacrifice etc…

Without forgetting the cave of the hermit surmounted by an enormous oscillating rock classified in 1910.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • site on Neuvy-Bouin
  • Neuvy-Bouin on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Neuvy-Bouin on the site of INSEE
  • Neuvy-Bouin on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Neuvy-Bouin on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Neuvy-Bouin on Mapquest

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