Simpleton

Benet is a common French, located in the department of the the Vendée and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is Benetains.

Geography

History

  • Chief town of canton until year X, the commune of Simpleton is then integrated into the canton of Maillezais.

  • the communes of Lesson and Holy-Christine were amalgamated with that of Simpleton in 1972.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Near Fontenay-the-Count (19  km) in the Vendée and of Niort (11  km), Benet opens the way towards:

  • the the South-Vendée,

  • the Marsh poitevin,
  • and, further, the Atlantic littoral .

The diversity of its landscapes, the calcareous plain of Lesson, the marshes of Holy-Christine, Aziré or Nessier, make of it a varied, rich commune of its differences.

Its Holy-Eulalie church, classified historic building, makes of them a stage impossible to circumvent of the churches and Romance abbeys of the south-Vendée.

With a few kilometers one can also visit the splendid site of the Abbaye of Maillezais

A Wind farm was created in 2007 on the site of Lesson, and a second a few months later around the farm of Epineraie. These is on the whole ten wind mills which overhang the commune.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Gabriel Delaunay (1907-1998), resistant, senior official and French writer. Born and buried with Holy-Christine.

See too

  • Common of the Vendée

External bonds

  • Site of the town hall of Simpleton: www.mairie-benet.fr
  • Simpleton on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Simpleton on the site of INSEE
  • Simpleton on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Simpleton on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Simpleton on Mapquest

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