See also: Vendôme (homonymy)

Vendôme is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center. Its inhabitants is called Vendômoises and Vendômois.

Heraldic

of money to the chief of mouths, the lion of azure, armed, lampassé and crowned of gold, stitching on the whole

 

 

 

Geography

Located on the Loir it is also crossed by the line the SNCF. Thanks to TGV, it trouvre at only 42 minutes of Paris.

Communes bordering

History

- Vendôme was the capital of the county of Vendôme, whose existence is attested as of IXe century, and who will become duchy in XVIe century, then election at the XVIIIe century. From the end of XIVe century, the County of Vendôme, then the duchy until the accession of Henri IV with the throne, will belong to a branch of the royal family the Bourbon-Vendôme, whose current descendant is Jean of Orleans. In 1790, the city becomes simple district and sub-prefecture of the Loir-et-Cher, under the supervision of Blois. From the XIXe century, the district of Vendôme will be looked at, under the influence of work of local scholarship and soon of the promotion of tourism in the valley of the dormouse, like a traditional country: the Vendômois

Some historical facts:

- The March 7th 851, Nominoë, King de Bretagne, dies in shift with Vendôme, after having conquered the Maine and the Anjou.

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The construction of a city

The concerned traveller of good to spare his impressions approach Vendôme by north. Slope, that a slope soft undercrust towards the Suburb S, it sees initially ruined turns with half which take shape in the sky… then the bell-tower of “the church of the Trinity of Vendôme”

With the hollow of the valley of the Dormouse

With prehistory, the Loir divided into several arms supports the human establishment, soon followed by a habitat Troglodyte dug in the slope, left bank. However, little information comes to specify the form of the original settlement vendômois. First written mention of " Vendôme" (" … cum castellis Duno vel Vindocino… ") go back to the treaty of Andelot signed in 587. On the southernmost rock headland the primitive keep of the castle of Vendôme is located. It probably succeeded the 11th century with a Castrum Roman itself preceded by a Oppidum Gallic. The abbey of the Trinity founded in 1032 and the primitive church Saint Martin's day concentrate around them a first grouping of dwellings.

the fortifications

A strengthened enclosure comes to double the protection of the Dormouse, more or less channeled natural ditch. The tradition locates this construction after 1227, on decision of White of Castille and its young person wire Louis IX, come to seek assistance and protection near the count Jean IV. Vendôme counts three parishes then: Saint Martin's day like Saint-Bienheuré and Saint-Lubin in the southern suburbs of the city.

At the 17th century, the " city; intra-muros" open

Badly maintained, abused by the risings of the Dormouse, the fortifications lose their defensive interest. Little by little, Vendômois " investissent" banks external of the closed city. In the south, the castle also opens him by the boring of a new principal main door (carries of Beauce) and the installation of a slope connecting it directly to the city. Several religious congregations install their enclosure in the center (Oratoriens) and along the northern suburb (Capuchins, Ursulines, Calvairiennes).

transformations of the 19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, the buildings of old the Benedictine abbey accommodate a barracks of cavalry of 800 men. Three new bridges (bridges of the district of the Abbey and Islette) and the street of the Abbey are thus established to connect this Rochambeau district which occupies nearly a quarter of the surface of the historical center. Of 1858 with 1896, streets are gradually aligned (rebuilt frontages and widened ways). The decision to destroy the church Saint Martin's day, partly ruined in 1857, equips the heart with Vendôme of a place while the suburbs still leave the good share to the small truck farming. The way of railroad realized of 1864 with 1867 mark, at the time, northern limit of the urbanization of Vendôme.

Rebuildings and developments at the 20th century

Nearly a quarter of the downtown area of Vendôme after the fire caused by the bombardment of the June 15th 1940 must be rebuilt. The strong demand in residences which characterizes France of post-war period is in Vendôme satisfied by the development with dwellings on vast agricultural plains in north, between the railway and the slope. From 1959 to 1966, Rottes (the rotes as old French, are small paths) go to add up 1.442 multifamily apartments and 477 individual residences out of 83 hectares. In this new district, the Notre-Dame church deserves the attention by her interior volume. By oval plan, it is surmounted by a cupola, thin veil of concrete (7 cm thickness) on 800 m2. Large arteries are bored to manage flows of circulation: the avenue Gerard Yvon (in direction of the Mans) in 1967, the boulevard Kennedy of 1978 with 1980 and the deviation of the Trunk road 10 (Bordeaux Paris) in 1976.

the city today

Since the years 1980 - 1990, the urban development continues by crossing the southernmost slope which constituted formerly a natural barrier. Operations of urbanization are then led to the south, in the district of Aigremonts (étymologiquement the " hills escarpées"). They balance the pattern of the settlement and the activities on the commune which adds up 18.500 inhabitants, in the middle of a basin of life of more than 30.000 inhabitants.

The city with the wire of the centuries

One cannot know at which time it was established county of Vendôme. It is known only that his territory about old the " included/understood; Pagus vindocinensis" or country Vendômois, itself division of the " Civitas Carnutarum" or cité des Carnute S, of which Autricum, which became the town of Chartres. Raoul of Saint-Coming (1854 - 1927) Topographic, historical dictionary of Vendômois and the district of Vendôme

With the margins of the field of Anjou

In 1032, the advent of Geoffroy Martel, wire of Foulque Nerra, count d' Anjou, marks the beginning of the political influence angevine on the county of Vendôme. During second half of the 12th century, the city passes in turn to the hands of Henri II Plantagenêt and Philippe Auguste. The territorial stake of ceaseless fights brings, without any doubt, during the 14th century, the counts de Vendôme and of Blois to delimit their respective fields. Vendôme takes share with the national history, during the two months of lawsuit of one of the pars of France. Indeed, in 1458, with the castle, Charles VII makes draw up a " Bed of justice ". The duke of Alençon Jean II of Valois is condemned there for collusion with the English. By accommodating this court, the count Jean VIII thus marks his fidelity and his support for the king.

the Trinity of Vendôme, a powerful abbey as of the 11th century

The Odéric abbot is the first, in 1066, to obtain the title of cardinal. This direct link and privileged abbey towards papacy remains until the Révolution. The abbot Geoffroy Ier (abbot of 1093 with 1132) affirms the radiation of the abbey, in particular by his decisive action at the time of the quarrel of the nominations. He allows to the pope Urbain II to take again his position. This power is not without regularly creating tensions with the counts de Vendôme, who are regulated by an agreement in 1185.

the family of the Bourbon-Vendôme

In 1371, after the death of the count Bouchard VII and its daughter Jeanne de Vendôme, Catherine de Vendôme, their sister and aunt, inherits the Comté of Vendôme. Its marriage with Jean of Bourbon-the-Walk gives rise to the House of Bourbon-Vendôme.

This dynasty marks the history of the county then duchy starting from 1515. Thus, the Marie countess of Luxembourg (1462 - 1546), girl of Pierre of Luxembourg and Marguerite of Savoy, after the death of her husband François de Bourbon, plays a part of patron during one half-century. She governs the embellishment of the vault Saint-Jacob, the Saint-Georges door, the collegial one of the castle and the rebuilding of the Saint Martin's day church.

The October 20th 1548, Jeanne d' Albret (1528 - 1572) wife Antoine of Bourbon (1518 - 1562), second duke of Vendôme. Protestant woman, it marks her catholic ground short stays vendômoise. In 1562, Huguenot S profane and plunder collegial the Saint-Georges. Ransacked in 1793, this true necropolis of the Bourbon-Vendôme, in the middle of their castle, is nothing any more but ruins today. Henri IV will make the seat as for him of the castle and the city then to the hands of the catholic members of a league in November 1589.

In 1623, César de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, founds the college of the Oratoriens which will become later the Ronsard college, and of which part of the buildings lodge the current town hall and the tourist bureau.

Vendôme in the middle of the revolutionary history

Located at more than 170 km of Paris, outdistances considered to be necessary for the serenity of a court in revolutionary period, Vendôme receives the High Court of justice for the lawsuit of Gracchus Babeuf, Augustin Darthé and their partisans. Finally, the stormy debates which animate, during more than seven months, audiences (and the city!) lead to the execution of the two principal defendants and the deportation of the majority of their sympathizers. 1796 sign the stop of the leaders of " The Conspiracy of Equal the " but their ideas will find a revival after the Révolution of 1830.

bombardment of the June 15th 1940

A heavy human account (89 died and more than 200 wounded) mark this violent event. The aspect of the historical center is upset. Approximately four hectares are destroyed by the bombardment and the fire which was followed from there. The court, the home of the governor as of many half-timbered houses disappeared. Nowadays, there remains still an about sixty houses with sides of wood very often hidden behind coatings.

a city always moving

The installation of a station TGV in 1990, which places Vendôme at 43 minutes of Paris, was accompanied by an important change of economic fabric. It is articulated around three distinct industrial poles: aeronautics, electric household appliances and car. Thanks to its offer of trade and services diversified and its cultural and associative dynamism, Vendôme is affirmed like a regional pole of radiant development on a surface of 70.000 inhabitants.

Savors and know-how

Buy apricots, Pompoms, artichokes, Strawberries and cream; It is in summer what I like, When on the edge of the brook I eat it with the noise of water. Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) " Odelette of Bocage" of 1554 - Books of the odes of youth.

Slopes of Vendômois

If the vine is always present in Vendômois, it gradually lost its place of honor to the profit of the cereal fields. It is nearly 90% of the vineyard which were torn off after the Second world war. But since obtaining the Name of controlled origin " Slopes of Vendômois" in 2001, the wine growers can from now on play the chart " terroir". The Pineau d' Aunis, if it is a capricious type of vine, does not give of it less one wine to characteristic peppered savor: the " gris" expenses. The soil is also expressed through the reds, fruits of the assembly of Pineau d' Aunis, black Pinot and frank Cabernet. The white Chenin is the different happy one surprised of this soil where the flint levels. One draws a dry wine from it, with the citrus fruits flavors, to taste with a fish or a goat's milk cheese of country. The best way of discovering this vineyard is still to go on the slope of Coutis where house of vine, garden ampelographic (showing the science of the vine), orchard and table of orientation take you along in the middle of this local memory. With, in premium, a unspoilable view on Vendôme.

sweetened Delicacies

Greedy you delight: the history of Vendôme and Vendômois is also crunched with full teeth! The local pastrycooks ingéniés themselves to create receipts evoking characters and anecdotes… Ronsard Squares with prose all in nougatine and praline-flavoured ice cream, of Croquignolles Balzac in the pages written in meringue with almonds, you here are taken on board for a " tasting littéraire" … The Rochambeau (chocolate cookies and fool) is to be enjoyed under the statue of this marshal who was distinguished in North America at the time of the War of independence. With each greediness its history, small or large, with you to discover it: Hook' champalus, Holy-tear, Mischievousness of the wolf…

City-garden and gardens downtown

Vendôme preserves since the 17th century a single inheritance of green areas which is worth to him to be classified flowered city " 4 fleurs" and which enabled him to gain the " National Grand Prix of the fleurissement" during 10 consecutive years. In the Ronsard park and the park of the castle, many trees, some more twice centenaries, have a botanical interest. The plane tree planted in edge of Dormouse in 1759 and the cedar of Lebanon, with the castle since 1807, are most famous of them. The direction of the environment and the green areas of the City controls the art of the " for a long time; Mosaïculture ". These true floral frescos renewed in the course of the years can be admired close to the Belot public garden, in edge of the Dormouse and in the garden of the library. In addition, several collections are gathered (odorous sages and plants in the court of the cloister of the Trinity). A lesson of botany in the open air is offered thus to the amateurs, in some of the public gardens of Vendôme.

festivals and spectacles

Throughout the year, you have the choice among a great number of demonstrations. In spring, " Prokino" festival of the German-speaking cinema and the international festival of guitars; the summer one season of spectacles in the open air rythmée in particular by " The Walks photographiques" , meetings of storytellers and " Musical Walks in country of Vendôme" , new festival organized by the Orchestral Whole of Paris, which allows the training of young leaders. In October, Vendôme lives at the rate/rhythm of the " Rockomotives" , festival of current musics recognized for its direction of the discovery. In December, find the " Festival of the film" who rewards the best courts and French and European medium-length films. The cultural season of Vendôme profits finally from the technical assets of the room of theater " The Minotaure " conceived by Gaëlle Péneau and inaugurated in 2002. Of a capacity of 760 armchairs, this place accommodates each year more than 10.000 spectators.

the markets

Each Friday in downtown area and each Sunday in the district of Rottes, of the goods in any kind fill the stalls. With the downtown area, the producers and market-gardeners settle under the market hall built in the pure style Baltard, like in the adjacent streets and places. For the market of Rottes, they settle which occurred Georges Clémenceau.

The inheritance

Playground of the old college to the worthy plane trees to the edges of the Dormouse, discover places in charge of history. 2 circuits invite you to discover the historical heart of Vendôme. The 2 courses leave the tourist office and are complementary, thus making it possible to discover all the richness of the inheritance of the city.

First circuit

In the middle of the city

the town hall

The duke César de Vendôme founds in 1623 a college which he entrusts to Oratoriens (religious congregation established in France at the 17th century). This building changes several times of name; royal military academy at the end of the 18th century, it becomes the Ronsard college in 1930. In 1969 - 1970, a new college is built in the north of the city. The old buildings, unoccupied, are arranged in 1982 to accommodate the town hall. Of 1639 with 1777, bricks and stones are assembled according to the polychrome esthetics of the French classical architecture. Conceived in the axis of the gate of entry, street Saint-Jacob, the scheduled frontages of the main courtyard, are most beautiful testimony. Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was pupil during 7 years, at the beginning of the 19th century with the college of Vendôme. The tradition wants that it carries out its punishments, locked up in a tiny room of the old hotel of Bellay, known today under the name of hotel of Projecting, sheltering the tourist office.

the vault Saint-Jacob

As of the 12th century, this place accommodates pilgrims in way towards Saint-Jacob de Compostelle. This blazing Gothic vault results from transformations undertaken in XVe and XVIe centuries. Starting from 1623, Oratoriens, teaching with the college located in the vicinity, make the vault of their establishment of it. Closed down with the Revolution, it becomes military store then theater to be returned to the worship in 1826. Since 1982, the Saint-Jacob vault accommodates exposures. The street of the Exchange owes its name at the exchange office attested in 1354. Extended to the 19th century, the street becomes pedestrian in 1978. The current post office settled in 1956 in an old department store " The Galeries" News; built at the beginning of the 20th century.

the tower of Islette

The tower of Islette belongs to the fortifications, built at the 13th century in edge of the Dormouse. As from the 18th century, the tower like the other defense works are forsaken, partly shot down and re-used by Vendômois. With the wire of the centuries, the many risings of the Dormouse damage the enclosing walls and the bridges then out of wooden. Close to the tower of Islette, the Chartrain bridge is thus rebuilt hones in 1691 of it.

the old convent of Cordeliers

It is at the 13th century, after the departure of the monks templiers, that this convent becomes one of the most important establishments about Cordeliers. In 1589, at the time of the seat of the city by Henri IV, the convent is plundered in reprisals with the spirit of resistance towards the huguenots instigated by the Cordeliers. After the Revolution, nuns bénédictines of the Martyrdom buy and increase the convent to install a house of education there. Starting from 1971, the hospital of Vendôme, owner of the places since 1964, manages an old people's home there. The current place of Freedom, takes its name in 1913. This old cultivated small island is removed by the deviation of the Dormouse to accommodate a fairground.

the slope of the small gardens

These wet meadows with the Moyen-âge will receive at the 19th century the debris of the city. Finally this ground in edge of the Dormouse is rehabilitated and becomes the Belot public garden in 1898. The soldiers, installed in the abbey of the Trinity, build the bridges of Islette and the district to disenclose their barracks. On the slope of the small gardens, each year, new floral scenes are made up in mosaïculture. All these parks and gardens take part in the search of quality and diversity of fleurissement of Vendôme.

the water door

This door, strengthened during the end of XIIIe and with XVe centuries, is also called arch of the Large Meadows, the name of the grounds which surround it. As of the Middle Ages, the quantity of water of the Dormouse is controlled to supply the mills of the city. Thus, a stopping was built by the monks of the Trinity to ensure the flow necessary to their mill called " Perrin" mill;. Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) quotes the valley of the Dormouse and Vendômois in its writings. This poet of the court was born with the manor from Possonière, to forty kilometers of Vendôme.

the bedside of the Trinity

The Benedictine abbey of the Trinity has a church as of the Romance time . In 1271, this building is considered dilapidated by the monks who decide to rebuild it. New a chorus is built towards 1308. The harmony of the proportions and the broad bays decorated with clover reasons are representative of the Gothic architecture radiant. It seems that, as of the 12th century, the cardinal abbot had a separate residence of the common dormitories of the monks. The current building corresponds to part of the whole of the home built at the 15th century in the Gothic style blazing. The street of the Abbey exists only since the beginning of the 19th century after the dismantling of the monastery. The bridge of the abbey finished in 1859 will fix the layout of this old dead end.

the district Rochambeau

In 1791, the buildings of the abbey of the Trinity are put on sale. The buildings shelter a court, prisons and the sub-prefecture. It is in 1802 that a district of cavalry taking the name of Rochambeau district in 1886 is established. Nearly thirty buildings (stables, horse-gears, stores…) will be gradually built. The 20th Hunters with horse, decimated in 1914, finishes the list of the regiments stationed with Vendôme. The gendarmerie, last occupying of the places, is reinstalled in the vicinity immediate, since 1996. The primitive vault is built as of the foundation of the abbey at the 11th century. The broad bays of its southern frontage were bored with the Revolution for better lighting the refectory created for prisoners. Besides the room keeps this function of canteen at the 19th century within the district of cavalry. It is with the back of the building that one can see bays of origin walled as well as column-buttresses.

court of the Cloister

The cloister (of Latin " claustrum" : enclose) is a reserved space with the meditation of the monks. It is in the middle of the operation of this Benedictine abbey and includes/understands: the dormitory, the refectory and the home of the hosts. The circular kitchen (as with Fontevraud) and the southern wing were replaced by a building more imposing, necessary to the reception of the monks Benedictines maurists at the 18th century. Only the northern part of the gallery of the cloister, along the church, survived the demolition decided by the army in 1907. The chapter house is the daily meeting room of the monks. One of the walls of the room is decorated very beautiful frescos (end XIe beginning XIIe centuries) discovered in 1972 behind a wall of the 14th century. " Fishing miraculeuse" (Jean 21,1-14) remains most beautiful of these scenes illustrating of the events which have occurred after " The Resurrection of Christ".

the frontage of the Trinity

In 1508, the virtuosity of the project superintendent, Jean Texier says Jean de Beauce, is combined with that of the sculptors to construct the frontage of abbey of the Trinity. This " flashover sculpté" of the masterpieces of the blazing Gothic art is one. The bell-tower of the church constitutes also an exceptional building built at the 12th century. It resembles the southern bell-tower of the cathedral of Chartres which is contemporary for him.

houses in wood sides

Many medieval houses of the center of Vendôme are in sides of wood, economic method of construction still used with XVIIIe and XIXe centuries. Dated from the end of the 15th century, the Saint Martin's day house consists of an assembly of wood posts resting on sand pits (horizontal beams). At the ground floor, four sculptures represent, from left to right: saint Martin, holy Jacques, holy Jean-Baptiste and holy Louis. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, future marshal of Rochambeau, was born in Vendôme on July 1st 1725. On the Saint Martin's day place, its statue, set up in 1900, testifies to one of the many feats of arms of this military career. To the sides of George Washington, Rochambeau contributes to the victory of Yorktown in 1781, for the cause of American independence.

Second circuit

Dawdling towards the castle

the church Holy-Marie-Madeleine

The June 2nd 1474, Jean VIII, count de Vendôme, founds the Holy-Marie-Madeleine church with the support of her inhabitants and in particular of the brotherhoods of vine growers and gardeners cultivating of many market-gardening grounds surrounding. If the building is dated from the 15th century, its interior was restored at the 19th century and presents a beautiful whole of stained glasses of the workshop Lobin de Tours. The origin of the hospital which is next to the place of the Madeleine locates towards 1620 - 1623 when the hospital is transferred in this place by César de Vendôme. This religious establishment is laicized starting from 1905.

the library

Drawn by the architect Edouard Marganne, this building is built, of 1866 with 1868, to shelter the library, the museum and the archaeological company. Saved by the bombardment of June 1940, the building then will become the town hall. The collections of the museum join the abbey of the Trinity in 1953. After installation, the library only occupies since 1986 the buildings while the town hall finds place in the old Ronsard college. Gervais Launay (1804 - 1891), professor of drawing to the college of Vendôme, impassioned history and of archeology, carried out watercolours which are taken again to illustrate the desks of these two circuits. Its original works are preserved at the library of Vendôme.

the vault

Saint-Pierre-the-mound This vault of the 11th century belonged to a Prieuré directed by Saint-Georges-of-Wood monks. Sold in 1791 and transformed several times, there remains seems there only one third of the building. Interior space corresponds to sobriety external of this small Romance building which constitutes, nowadays, one of the oldest monuments of Vendôme.

the old church Saint Martin's day

The Saint Martin's day tower is the old bell-tower of a church which occupied almost all the space of the current place. After the Revolution, many transformations weakened the structure of the building and the Voûte crumbles in 1854. The church is finally demolished and its bell-tower (fine XVe, beginning XVIe centuries) is converted into belfry. The Carillon of the Saint Martin's day tower evokes the only cities held at the 15th century by the Dauphin Charles VII: " Orleans, Beaugency, Notre-Dame de Cléry and Vendôme… "

the place of the market

Formerly place of the Pilori, place of public execution removed at the 16th century, the place of the Market is in the beginning only one widened street. To cure the problems of circulation caused by the market, the city buys and demolishes houses. The current covered market is inaugurated in 1896 and is glazed in 1981. The district of the rebuilding: the June 15th 1940, Vendôme is bombarded. A fire damages the Saint-Georges door and destroys constructions on nearly a quarter of the downtown area. The aspect of this district is redrawn by the architect Jean Dorian who gauges the streets with the requirements of the automobile traffic.

the door of the new Bridge

The wood bridge which connected the city closed to the farmyard of the castle at the 18th century disappears fault from maintenance. The door of the new Bridge orders this access. It is the only witness of this point of passage between the two strengthened enclosures. At the time of the setting with bag of Vendôme the November 19th 1589, it is by this door that the troops of Henri IV are engulfed taking the city after their victorious attack of the castle.

the door Saint-Georges

This door is only still places from there among the four which controlled the access in the city. In 1467, the count Jean VIII concedes it with perpetuity with the alderman S which decide to hold their assembly to with it. The door is decorated of a decoration of medallions at the 16th century. The meetings of the municipal council and the marriages proceed there again since its restoration in 1959 following the fire related to the bombardment of 1940. The house " Fisseau" , beside the Saint-Georges door, date of 1947. Albert Fisseau, carpenter companion of the duty, carried out this house with wood sides of which one of the attic windows is very worked.

the castle at the 17th century

An engraving of the castle at the 17th century makes it possible to visualize the extent of the installations ordered by the duke César de Vendôme. This last makes produce an approach ramp and a main door to open the castle towards outside. Vast home built two centuries earlier, it does not remain that the base of the turns which dominate the slope. Downwards, the street Ferme constitutes the old farmyard of the castle, left corridor of safety controlled by strengthened doors. The residences of the street are for the majority of old houses of the canons of collegial of the castle.

old collegial the Saint-Georges

The collegial one of the castle shelters, of its foundation at the 11th century until the 17th century, the tombs of the counts and dukes of Vendôme, in particular those of Jeanne d' Albret and Antoine of Bourbon, parents of Henri IV. Unfortunately, the dismantling of the castle, after the Revolution, goes hand in hand with that of this sanctuary of the Vendôme Bourbon, already put at evil by two attacks (in 1562 by the huguenots and in 1793 by the revolutionists). The hedges of yews (planted in 1935) materialize the plan of the building in situ.

the medieval enclosure of the castle

The first point strengthened at the 11th century is a quadrangular keep located at the north-western point of the rock headland (outside the current park, in a private property called the Harbor office). The medieval enclosure, whose walls are still partly visible, date of the 12th century. The tower of Poitiers, main tower, always dominates by its size this old device, reinforced at the 14th century. Forsaken by the dukes of Vendôme, the castle is attached to the crown in 1712 but more attention does not obtain any. In 1791, the ruin of the castle is confirmed by its sale with various owners. The majestic cedar, planted in 1807, testifies to its revival as a park of approval. In March 2001, the collapse of a tower and part of the enclosing wall nowadays explains the position of vestiges with semi-slope of the slope.

Famous men

  • Nominoe : whereas it is in shift with the borders of Anjou, the first King de Bretagne dies in Vendôme on March 3rd, 851.
  • Geoffroy (Gaufridus or Goffredus) II, known as Martel (Geoffroy II of Anjou) : born on October 14th, 1006, died on November 14th, 1060, was count de Vendôme of 1032 to 1056, count d' Anjou of 1040 to 1060 and count de Tours of 1044 to 1060. It was of the family of Ingelgeriens and wire of Foulque III Nerra, count d' Anjou, and of Hildegarde.
  • Pierre de Ronsard : it was born in 1524 with the manor from Possonnière on the commune of Seam-on-Dormouse. This poet of the court appreciates the valley of the Dormouse and Vendômois, cradle expensive in his heart because theater of his loves with beautiful Cassandre.
  • Honore de Balzac : it evokes in “ Louis Lambert ” his seven years of boarding school to the college of Vendôme (current town hall). This book makes us discover the rigor of the discipline, undoubtedly inherited the last statute of royal military academy. Balzac is then “ the laziest schoolboy less acting, most contemplative and leaving more punished ”. The reprimands are then more or less severe: cane, pensum recopied in the “wood breeches”, nickname given to the closed beds of the dormitories.
  • Henri IV : the third Duke of Vendôme, wire of Jeanne d' Albret and Antoine of Bourbon, attacks its castle then the city to subject the catholic Members of a league vendômois. This event of November 1589 marked the local collective memory. The governor With a grid of Bénéhart and a Cordelier monk is carried out besides for their rebellion.
  • the duke César de Vendôme : this wire naturalness of Gabrielle d' Estrées and Henri IV, is often in the middle of various intrigues of state. Lord High Admiral of the Fleet and governor of Brittany, it shares his time between Paris and his castles of Anet and Vendôme. He is in the beginning great local work such as the foundation of the college of Oratoriens (current town hall) and the installation of the castle. He dies in his Parisian private mansion, building which gave later, although destroyed, its name in known the Royale place currently for its jewellers, the Place Vendôme.
  • Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur : future marshal of Rochambeau (in 1791) was born on July 1st, 1725 in Vendôme. Military career, it contributes to the victory of Yorktown, in 1781, at the sides of George Washington, decisive for American independence. He is buried with the cemetery of Thoré-la-Rochette, not far from the family castle.
  • Pierre Honore Robbé de Beauveset (1714-1794), poet French libertine who was born in Vendôme.
  • Dom Jacques the Clerk, prior with Vendôme at the time of Guillaume Bouzignac and Mersenne.
  • Beatrice Arruga, regional adviser
  • Gracchus Babeuf
  • Charles Myre De Vilers, governor of the French Cochinchine

The museum of Vendôme

There is in art a category of higher joys if deep and so high that one is forever obliged that or of that which gave them to you. Sacha Guitry - Extract of " If I have good mémoire"

the permanent collections

Rich person and varied, they are introduced in part of the buildings of the old abbey of the Trinity. The access on the first two floors is done by a stone staircase of the 17th century which led to the dormitory of the monks. The collections put in perspective Vendôme and its surroundings, as well in the geological field as archaeological. Old trades, sometimes disappeared, are evoked in the room of ethnology starting from tools: tanners, gantiers, sabot-makers. In the field of the fine arts, the museum preserves some remarkable parts: grip Marie-Antoinette, painted decoration of the castle of Richelieu, table of the lawsuit of Gracchus Babeuf. The room devoted to earthenware reveals important productions of Rouen and Nevers.

the room of temporary exhibitions

It makes it possible to organize, systematically, of the demonstrations approaching the history, the ethnology, the fashion… A space, especially dedicated to the contemporary art, makes possible, each year, a new fixing devoted to artists of international repute.

the sculptor Louis Leygue

Holder of a Price of Rome in 1931, it made gift of a great number of sculptures, medals and drawings, the latter presented to the public by alternation. In the church Our-Lady-of-Rottes, the furnace bridge, the baptismal font and the lectern as certain mural decorations were created by Louis Leygue towards 1968.

educational service

He proposes teaching workshops during school time and of the courses of visual arts Wednesday.

Infos practices

cloister of the Trinity Tel.: 02 54 77 26 13 10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 18:00 the every day except Tuesday Closed on January 1st, May 1st, on December 25th and Sundays of November with the end of March

Administration

Demography

Economy

The city has an antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Loir-et-Cher.

Religious heritage

Vendôme is classified town of art and history.

Civil inheritance

  • Town hall (old Ronsard college)
  • Door Saint Georges

Cultural life

  • Seat of a cinema festival (Internet site): “ organized by the Regional office of the Center for the cinema and the audio-visual one, the Festival of Film of Vendôme is registered like the appointment impossible to circumvent of the public and the professionals with the emergent forms of the young European cinematographic creation in area ” (16th edition from November 30th to December 7th, 2007).

Twinnings

  • Germany since 1971 twinning with the commune of Gevelsberg/the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
  • Germany, Saint-Joseph college-college twinned with Realschule Saint-Elisabeth of Friedrichshafen

See too

  • Common of Loir-et-Cher

External bonds

  • Site of the Community of communes of the Country of Vendôme (PVC)
  • Associations of Vendômois
  • Artists in Vendômois
  • Vendôme on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Vendôme on the site of INSEE
  • Vendôme on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Vendôme on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Vendôme on Plane Mapquest
  • of Vendôme on " Google Maps"
  • Heraldic in Loir-et-Cher: Armorial of Vendômois
  • History of the old college of Oratoriens become the college Ronsard

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