Rouillon

Rouillon is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is called Rouillonnais.

Geography

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

Awls
Fay
Pruillé-the-Weak Mans
Saint-Georges-of-Wood
Trangé

History

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

the Notre-Dame church; a priory joined with the church; current priest (May 2006) Father Laurent Husset.

Economy

Famous characters

Abbot Charles Morancé: Writer and artist, chaplain of a regiment of the Army of the Loire (the 33e Mobile), it told the epopee of this army which fought in 1870 (Chanzy general) against the German army in the Sarthe. Its tomb is with the cemetery of Rouillon and a plate in the church points out its souvenir.

(Accounts of a military chaplain in time of war and times of peace by the abbot Charles Morancé, former chaplain of the 33ème mobile and the garrison of Mans, chevalier of the Legion of Honor 2 volumes, printed in Mans by Edmond Monnoyer in 1884)

Count de Rochecotte: Instigator of the second chouanery in Maine. It remained in Rouillon and more particularly with the castle of Rouillon, lodged by the ladies Nepveu de Rouillon and in several firm surrounding (firm of the Spine…). Born close from Langeais with the castle to Rochecotte, repurchased then by the duchess of Dino, it finished its life, shot by the Directory, on the Fields of Mars, in Paris.

Tourist monuments and places

a church of the 18th century;
a castle of the 16th century;
of the furnaces with rouire the hemp of the 19th century, or front;
a Roman way;
of the old houses of farm (15th, 16th, 18th, 18th centuries);
a priory of the 16th century depend on the Abbey of the Seam.

Events

Twinnings

(county of Galway)

See too

Common of the Sarthe

External bonds

http://www.ville-rouillon.fr

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