Pouancé is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Pouancé is crossed by the Verzée.

History

The Paroisse is founded at the 11th century, at the same time as the fortified town. The current territory of the commune formerly formed part of country of Mée (area with horse on the old Counties of Rennes, Nantes and Angers), but was detached from it by the conquests of the Duke of Anjou, Foulque Nerra.

At the 14th century the seigniory becomes an important baronnie covering a vast territory extending until Cuillé in north from the Mayenne angevine.

Pouancé is a high place of the Wars of succession of the Duchy of Brittany (in the context of the One hundred year old War) between the House of Blois pro-Frenchwoman, and the pro-English house of Montfort.

In 1343, salt becomes a state monopoly by an ordinance of the king Philippe VI of Valois, which institutes the gabelle , the tax on salt. The Anjou belongs to the countries of " large gabelle" and includes/understands sixteen special courts or " attics with sel" , of which that of Pouancé.

Under the Old Mode, the parish of Pouancé depended on the Diocèse of Angers on the religious level and on the Sénéchaussée of Angers on the administrative and legal level.

Administration

Demography

Remarkable monuments and sites

• the Tower of the Clock (15th century)
• the door Saint-Aubin
• ruins of the castle (XIIIe and 15th centuries), of which there remains the enclosure of XIIIe century with eleven dismantled towers.
• the castle of Braided (19th century), converted into Sanatorium
• the castle of Dangé
• the church Saint-Aubin (16th century, restored at the 19th century). It contains in particular Retable S of the 18th century and a schist cross of the 15th century with a Christ monolith on her square
• the church of the Madeleine, restored at the 19th century
• the military vault of the cemetery of Saint-Aubin (dating from the post-war period 1914-18)
• the vault Saint-Marc (17th century), dilapidated
• the vault of the castle of Vengeau, built in 1501.
• the site of the castle and its accesses, dominating the valley of Verzée.

Castle of Pouancé

Bessière collection

Louis Bessière (1915-1978), impassioned tradition and of history angevine, was the first to become aware of the importance that the castle, then forsaken, could have for the commune. He started to only restore it, then was helped of young people within the framework of the building sites " Dormant" wood; that it created in 1964. Its action obtained the price of the historic buildings then the Prix of the Chiefs of work in danger. Collector of ceramics, plates, tables, statuettes of the Virgin to the Child, as well as traditional costumes and objects found with the castle, it bequeathed the totality of its collection, as well as the castle, with the commune after its death in 1978. Part of its collection can be seen in the hall of the town hall, and the greatest part is exposed at the time of demonstrations like the European Journées of the inheritance.

Economy

The local production primarily agricultural, is based on the Pâturage S, the mixed-farming, the apple trees with Cidre, the Horticulture.

The breeding of porcine, poultries and bovines makes it possible to produce meat and milk.

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