Baugé is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

Paris 280 km, Angers 40 km, Turns 70, Mans 60, Saumur 35.

Connections by bus with SNCF railway stations of Saumur, Angers, the Arrow and Mans

Airport: Angers/Marcé.

History

• With the the Middle Ages, under kings Carolingiens, the Oldone ordered one of the Viguerie S of Anjou: Vicaria Balgiensis . The stronghold of Beaugé passed between famous hands (Richard Lion-hearted, Jean without Ground, Philippe Auguste, Marguerite of Provence, Louis XI, etc…)

• a first castle was built by the Plantagenêts. Then 1451, the King Rene of Anjou, decided to rebuild a new castle, while making consolidate then to restore the ruins. Work lasted ten years. The castle of king Rene became, thereafter, the town hall of Wallow.

• In 1343, salt becomes a state monopoly by an ordinance of the king Philippe VI of Valois, which institutes the gabelle , the tax on salt. The Anjou belongs to the countries of " large gabelle" and includes/understands sixteen special courts or " attics with sel" , of which that of Beaugé.

• Under the Old Mode, Beaugé (Wallow) was with the head of an important seneschalsy of the Anjou dependant on the principal seneschalsy of Angers. Its jurisdiction covered a territory going until Castle-the-Vallière (in the past Castle-in-Anjou ) with the East and Lude in North.

Administration

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts).

Places and monuments

Castle of Wallow

The castle of Wallow was built in XVe century by King Rene, duke of Anjou. Located in downtown area, it accommodates today a course-spectacle recalling the life of King Rene. The first stage of the castle presents topics such as the dynasty of Anjou, Anjou and Europe, the knighthood and the tournaments, the courtly love and the cross of Anjou, become later the Cross of Lorraine.

Pharmacy of Wallow

Classified historic building, the pharmacy of Wallow is regarded as one of most beautiful of France. More than 600 containers rest on furniture in drowning and oak of style Louis XIII. Parts of exceptions as of the albarelles italo-Moorishes of XVIe century côtoient earthenware of Nevers of XVIIe. Certain remedies are still visible such as horns of stags, eyes of crayfish or powder of woodlice.

Other remarkable places

Downtown area (Wallow has even more than 100 private mansions and remarkable houses), the True Cross of Anjou to the vault of Girouardière, the cultural house esperantist of the Château of Grésillon.

Personalities related to the commune

• Anne of Melun
• Gaëtan de Rosnay
• Remained Rene, bishop and theologist, adviser of the Pope Jean-Paul II.

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