Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.
Geography
Saint-Laurent-of-furnace bridges is a commune located at the north of the Mauges, in the center of the triangle Cholet - Angers - Nantes. It is more strongly subjected to the influence of distant Nantes of about thirty kilometers than to that of Angers distant of more than sixty kilometers.
Located in the canton of Champtoceaux, in the extreme south-west of the Department of Maine-et-Loire, it is with the crossroads of several important axes of circulation:
• center south-western/north-western ensuring the connection between the Clisson are born and the Country from Ancenis and the Segré in,
• axis is/western allowing the opening-up of the north of Mauges towards the south of the Nantes agglomeration with 5 secondary roads: RD 763 (Ancenis/the Roche-sur-Yon), RD 23 (in direction of Landemont/Nantes), RD 17 (Champtoceaux/Montrevault), RD 154 (in direction of Saint-Christophe-the-Couperie), RD 80 (in direction of the Puiset-Gilded/the Stronghold-Sauvin).
Here how Auguste Guinhut, priest with Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges towards 1925, described his small village:
“ It is a high plateau from 93 to 98 meters of altitude in the south and the center, tilted towards north where it reaches nothing any more but 86 and 89 meters. Its aspect is that of the remainder of Mauges: no plain, of the sometimes flat fields, sometimes rounded which are staged soft inclined and which surrounds a belt of quickset hedges and oaks.
the wood of Mésangeau, the forests of the Park and the Foucaudière, the wood of the Culvert constitute a framework of greenery which veils the horizon and imprisons the glance. Only a light depression lets see, in north in a solid mass of trees, between Liré and Drain, the castle of the Turmelière whose name points out Joachim of Bellay.
In the presence of this closed landscape, no one would suspect only with a few kilometers, the Loire always rolls its limpid water in the middle of its green meadows with its islands decorated with gigantic solid masses of poplars to the foliage moving ”.
History
One finds the name Latin of Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges (Ecclesia Sancti Laurentii de Altaribus) in documents which go back to the years 1100 - 1120 and, in 1538, Saint-Laurent-of-Aultiers. The name “of Aultiers” or “the Furnace bridges” indicates a lower vault, a branch depending on a parish-mother.
Indeed, Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges was, at the origin, a “young girl” or appendix of the parish of Drain, its neighbor. She had her delimited territory which was probably that of today, her church, her cemetery, its serving which was a vicar of the priest of Drain. Like Drain, Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges depended, from the religious point of view, the bishop of Nantes and the deanery of Clisson; from the civil point of view, seneschalsy of Angers and Attic with Saint-Florent-the-Old salt of . It was, according to the picturesque remark of people of the country, “ of the devil of Anjou and the good god of Brittany ”.
The common one also paid a heavy tribute with the History: with the Revolution, like all the neighbouring communes, Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges was visited by one of the infernal Colonnes, the ninth, was led by Cordelier (16 and 17 March 1794). The soldiers spread themselves in the borough, setting fire to the church and the majority of the houses, then in the farms, which they burned and of which they massacred the inhabitants. There were 230 victims: 71 children, 66 women and 93 men. In 1878, on one of these pits, one built the Vault of the Martyrs which was blessed the 2 June 1879 per Monseigneur Freppel, bishop of Angers.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
In the middle of Saint Laurent of the Furnace bridges, exists the locality " The Mill of the croix" , locality where the Vault of the martyrs is present. There existed six mills on this commune but only one remained on foot. It dates from the 18th century and is located at 50 meters of the Vault of the martyrs. It belonged to the family Godin, miller of wire father. This mill had a role since the provision of the wings made it possible to inform the population of dangers or happy events like the marriages.
Personalities related to the commune
See too
- Common of Maine-et-Loire
External bonds
- the official site of Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges
- Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges on the site of INSEE
- Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges on the site of Quid
- Localization of Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges on Mapquest
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