Villemoutiers

Villemoutiers is a common French, located in the department of the Loiret and the area Center.

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The old Latin name of Villemoutiers (Villa monasterii) meant " the field of the monastère" , a monastery which depended on the Benedictine S of Holy-Madeleine of Vézelay (Yonne) and which sheltered the monks of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais during the invasion of the Norman ones. Destroyed during the Wars of religion (1568) by the Protestant armies of the admiral Gaspard de Coligny, it was replaced by a priory, the house of the prior, the lord of the parish.

Become a national good with the Revolution, it was sold to the adoptive father of the painter Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson and was then repurchased (1802) by Jean-Baptiste Patrauld, a former tiny monk inhabitant of Franche-Comté, who had been the mathematics professor of the young person Napoleon Bonaparte (1779 - 1784), but also of the generals Jean-Charles Pichegru and Charles Etienne Gudin of the Sand pit, native of Montargis, at the School royal-soldier of Brienne-the-Castle, in the Paddle. In 1796, its former student, become general-in-chief of the army of Italy, employed it as secretary with Milan, where it made fortune. Third mayor of the commune (1808 - 1815), it there died in 1817 and was buried in the communal cemetery which always the high cross of its tomb which carries, like epitaph dominates, " a tear with the father of the pauvres". In 1794, it had married with the teacher of the small nieces of the two brothers Loménie de Brienne (one cardinal-archbishop of Direction and former minister for finances of Louis XVI and the other former minister for the War of the same Louis XVI) of which he had become the businessman. His/her son Jean-Baptist-Augustin Patrauld, born in Milan, was elected, towards 1840, mayor of Mignerette (Loiret) then general adviser of the canton of Tool bag-in-Gâtinais.

In the middle of the XIXe century, the painter Gustave Mailand transformed the old residence of the priors into a castle of style post-Gothic and brought to it, of Paris, a turret of the old oratory of Queen-White, at the time of the opening of the Rue of Rivoli by the Prefect Georges Eugene Haussmann. By the marriage of Emilia Mailand, his/her more young girl, with Valentine Chodron de Courcel, the castle became the property of their only son, Henri Chodron de Courcel who, at the beginning of the 20th century, was opposed to the law of separation of the churches and of the State, at the time of many elections, of which the delegation, but it was only city council man commune, in 1907, and died in 1909.

The church Saint Nicolas's Day , with its high altar out of wooden of the 17th century and the old baptistry of the monks driven out in 1568, rebuilt in 1880, and the bell-tower of the 16th century, which was a defensive tower, registered voter with the inventory of the historic buildings and which was set fire to by the lightning in 1945, constituted the old conventual church, with the vault of the 12th century, become a barn of the castle having lost its roof in 1995.

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