Villedieu-the-Castle

Villedieu-the-Castle is a common French, located in the department of Loir-et-Cher and the area Center.

Geography

City-God-in-Beauce became Commune-Be-Supreme, became again City-God-in-Beauce, then Villedieu-the-Castle. The church is transformed into Temple of the Reason. The statue of Saint-Michel east thrown by ground. It does not break. The Jacobins destroy it with blows of mass and two other statues undergo the same fate. In This canton of Montoire-on-the-Dormouse, during the Revolution, in spite of the creation of a middle-class guard and a committee of safety and the acceptance of the jurisdiction of the constitutional bishop Gregoire, the people lacerate the official posters (decrees of national Convention), and revolt against the taxation of the food products, but it will have to finally yield to the force. The goods of the Church are sold and the requisitions of men and animals multiply. It is one period of great misery for the canton of Montoire and France.

the menhir of Boiling or hones Turn-midday, high of 2,70 m, is located at a hundred meters of the road of Seam. The many blocks dispersed in a very near ray let suppose q' a cromlec' H could exist around the menhir. The second megalith, the menhir of Cormiers or Pierre Druidique, has a slightly lower height: 2 Mr. Situé at approximately 2,5 km of the borg of Villedieu, it passed to have been used as stone with sacrifices.

Claude-Nicolas Leclerc was born and was baptized the July 25th 1738, with City-God Beauce, (become Villedieu-the-Castle nowadays). He dies the November 22nd, in Villedieu. Lawyer with the Parliament of Paris, Justice of the Peace, temporary Deputy to the legislative National Assembly (First Republic), Public prosecutor, Deputy with the mountain Convention, the Convention of Gironde, Secretary of the Convention, Appointed with the Council of the the Council of the Five hundred, then Secretary of the the Council of the Five hundred.

Villedieu-the-Castle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Villedieu-the-Castle on the site of INSEE
Villedieu-the-Castle on the site of Quid
Localization of Villedieu-the-Castle on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Villedieu-the-Castle on Mapquest

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