Anjou

General presentation

The duchy of Anjou extended along the the Loire between the two villages ligériens from Ingrandes: Ingrandes in Maine-et-Loire located downstream from the river and Ingrandes in Indre-et-Loire located upstream river.

Ingrandes is a name derived from that of Equoranda which means into pre-Celtic Equo or Latin Oequus = “just in extreme cases” and Randa = suffix and term Gallic which indicates a territorial limit or frontière.
Ingrandes-with-Touraine was the geographical limit between Anjou and the Touraine, Ingrandes (Maine-et-Loire) was the border between Anjou and the Brittany.
(It is the same for Ingrandes-on-Vienna which was the border between large Anjou under Foulques Nerra and the Poitou then, thereafter, the limit between the Touraine and the Poitou).

Geography

1°/Anjou was divided in higher Anjou or High-Anjou, in the north of the the Loire and including/understanding:

the whole of Northern bank of the Department of Maine-et-Loire:

the Country of High-Anjou Segréen, in the west of the the Sarthe formed, in addition to the area of Segré,

the Bouère

the Pouancé in
Baugeois, with the east of the Sarthe

country of Wallow,

Department of the the Sarthe: southern part of the department of the Sarthe called the Maine angevin.

country of Céans (canton of the Arrow), Lude and until Castle-of-Dormouse.

Department of Mayenne: One the southern third of the department mayennais called: the Mayenne angevine and forming the northern part of the High-Anjou.

Castle-Gontier, Saint-Denis-in Anjou…
the Craon be born

Department of the Indre-et-Loire:

Bourgueil and all the western area of the Indre-et-Loire until Castle-the-Vallière.

2°/et in Anjou lower, in the south of the Loire, and formed

of the Resident of Saumur in the east of the Tailboard until Mirebeau in the department of the Vienna, including the Loudun board as well as the town of Richelieu attached during its creation by the cardinal of Richelieu to the Saumur ois.

of the Borough (canton of Montreuil-Bellay),
Be worth it (canton of Genoa),

of the Mauges angevines,
of some communes bordering on the department of the Two-Sevres around Face-Loretz and of Nickle silver-the Church.
of the commune of Boissière-of-Gilded the, enclave angevine of the Mauges located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique.

Geology

General data

The stone and the basement gave its relief and its colors to Anjou: white micaceous chalk, blue slate, red clay. Anjou is thus a ground of meeting and contrast between the Paris basin in the East and the Armorican Massif in the West.

White Anjou (Micaceous chalk)

In the East, “white Anjou” merges with the Saumurois and the Baugeois by its micaceous chalk and limestone grounds. White Anjou, it is that of the tender stone caves, the mushroom beds and the troglodytes of the Resident of Saumur. These white grounds, resulting from the deterioration of the chalk (micaceous chalk), mark the South-western end of the Paris basin. This micaceous chalk stone, which under the hand of the tailors will make the fortune of Anjou and the elegance of its castles, its abbeys and its villages as well as most of the Loire Valley.

Black Anjou (Slate)

In the West of the area, starting from Angers and including the Mauges and the segréen, the the Loire leaves white Anjou to penetrate in the South-east of the Armorican Massif. Black Anjou and its schist slopes. Almost blue “black Anjou” of its slate mines, also called “blue Anjou”, the country of slate, with its granite and schist grounds. The slate sealed this so particular identity of black Anjou. All the masterpieces of the Loire Valley are capped slate angevine whose quality was essential in the whole world. Trélazé and the blue mine of Drowning-the-Gravoyère, close to Segré is the memory salte quarry. Black Anjou, it is also that of the soils to the schist basement, that of the high-class wines “villages” of the Slope-of-Tailboard which give their inimitable character to the white angevins resulting from the chenin.

Red Anjou (Clay)

Curiosity of Anjou, the chances of geology distributed two argillaceous basins at each end of Anjou. It is red Anjou, located at the North-East around the village of the Rairies and at south-west around the village of the Fuilet. This clay was used to cover the grounds with many castles of the Loire Valley. Since the Middle Ages, the Master-craftsmen work the Terra cotta resulting from these argilo-schistous grounds.

History

See also with Angers whose history is closely related to that of Anjou .

Antiquity

Inhabited initially by the Andécaves, Celtic people, this country formed part, under the Romains, of the 3rd Lyonnaise. The territory of Andécaves was located the Loire on both sides. The localities of Ingrandes (Ingrandes (Maine-et-Loire) and Ingrandes-with-Touraine) seem to indicate the approximate limits of these people. (Ingrandes is a name derived from that of Equoranda which means: (into pre-Celtic) Equo or (in Latin) Oequus = “just in extreme cases” and Randa = Gallic suffix and term which indicates a territorial limit or border). Andécaves went to the locality of Andenemessos (Ancenis): of Ande = quoted Gallic of the Andes or Andécaves and of nemessos = crowned forest. Ancenis was a place crowned for the Gallic people of Andécaves. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Anjou entered the Armorican Confédération.

The Middle Ages

Early middle ages

Conquered by the frank king Childéric, it passed then under various feudal dominations. It was set up in county by Charles the Bald person into 864 for Robert the Fort. This last, victorious of Norman with Brissarthe in 866, Master of the Neustrie installs like Viscount with Angers Ingelger, founder of the first dynasty angevine of the Plantagenêts, dynasty which reigned on the England of 1154 with 1485.

Counts of Anjou

In 909, following the death of Alain Ier of Brittany, Foulque Ier of Anjou receives the Comté of Nantes. It is charged to fight against the Normands and the Bretons. Nevertheless Nantes is taken by the Norman ones in 914. In spite of this raid Norman, Foulque Ier will preserve the title of count de Nantes, but this title was definitively recognized only in 930, when its suzerain Hugues Large the qualified it like such in one of his charters. Foulque Ier passed most of its life to fight the raids Vikings. The county of Nantes will remain related to the counts d' Anjou, then thereafter will pass under the domination angevine of the Plantagenêts until in 1203.

Foulques I {{er}} the Russet-red, takes in 929 the title of count d' Anjou.
Foulques II the Good then Geoffroy I {{er}} Grisegonnelle develop the power and the influence of the county of Anjou, it conquers Loches, Loudun, Mirebeau and Moncontour.
Foulques III Nerra, directs the county from 987 to 1040, it seizes the Mauges, the Resident of Saumur and of a good part of the Touraine, it makes build the castle of Langeais as well as the fortress of Champtoceaux, set up on a 70 meters height rocky outcrop dominating the the Loire and keeping Anjou vis-a-vis the Brittany.

His/her son, Geoffroi II Martel, completes the conquest of Touraine at the expense of the count of Blois, in 1044, it adapts Vendômois and conquers part of the Maine. With its death, it does not leave wire and its two nephews, Geoffroi III Bearded the and Foulques IV Réchin, dispute its succession. Foulques IV Réchin is victorious in 1068.
At the request of Foulque IV of Anjou, a text was written in Latin: Gesta Consulum Andegavorum which details the first dynasty of the Counts d' Anjou since the succession of Charlemagne.

Foulques V the Young person becomes king of Jerusalem in 1131.

The dynasty of Plantagenêts

Geoffroy V of Anjou known as Beautiful the or Plantagenêt (August 24th 1113, It is called Plantagenêt because of the bit of Genêt which it had the practice to carry to his hat. He was the son of Foulque V († 1143), count of Anjou and King de Jérusalem, and of Erembourge of Maine († 1126), heiress of Maine. He became the founder of the dynasty Plantagenêt of the English kings by his son Henri II of England.

The Comté of Anjou fixes the close counties and annexed them: County of Nantes, Vendôme, Maine, Mayenne and was counted among large the Principauté S French. One of its counts, Geoffroy Plantagenêt, married Mathilde, the girl of the king Henri Ier of England. By this marriage, Geoffroy becomes duke of Normandy in 1144, it dies in September 1151. Their son Henri II joins together under his authority the England, the Normandy, Anjou and their dependences as well as the Aquitaine by his marriage with Aliénor, the repudiated wife of the king de France Louis VII. It was the origin of the secular competition of the kingdoms of England and France. Henri II added to his possessions the Brittany which it militarily controlled and with which it still gave for duke his son child Geoffroi II.

Anjou is then the center of the Empire Plantagenêt, which includes England, Maine, Touraine, Vendômois, Berry, Aquitaine. However Anjou did not continue any less to concern the crown of France. At that time, Anjou was confiscated with Jean without Ground which had made perish its nephew Arthur, last heir to the county. It is the king of France Philippe Auguste who breaks the power of the Empire Plantagenêt by the double victory of Bouvines (1204) and of the Rock-with-Monks in 1214. The loss of the territories in continental, final France with the defeat of Jean-without-Ground to the Rock-with-Monks, close to Angers, vis-a-vis the future Louis VIII, made of England from now on the center of Plantagenêts. The treated of Paris, in 1259, carried out the fastening of Anjou to the kingdom of France.

Princes apanagists

In 1226, the king of France Louis VIII dies and left by will Anjou as well as the Maine in Apanage with Charles Ier of Anjou (1227-1285), which founded the second dynasty angevine. Charles conquers the southernmost Italy and is made crown king de Sicile and of Naples. But the difficulties arrive very quickly and lead to dramatic the sicilian Vêpres in 1282 during which thousands of many French were massacred of which Angevins.

In 1290, Marguerite, girl of Charles II of Anjou, king de Naples and of Jerusalem, count d' Anjou, from Maine and Provence, and Marie of Hungary, brought Anjou and Maine in dowry to Charles of France, count de Valois, whose son, become king de France under the name of Philippe VI, joins together these two provinces with the crown.

In 1360, the king Jean II the Good set up Anjou in Duché, and gave it for prerogative to its second wire Louis. Louis takes the title of king de Sicile on August 30th, 1383, the royal title of Naples being “king de Sicile and of Jerusalem”. He dies in 1384 with Bari, without to have obtained decisive result against his candidate Charles de Durazzo, who preserves the effective capacity.

The plague then the Guerre One hundred Year old will bring many pangs to Anjou.

March 22nd 1421, the army of the dolphin (future Charles VII) beat with Baugé the English army of the duke of Clarence, which perishes in the combat. This led the duke of Brittany to approach the Dolphin. That Ci could then take Mans, make the seat of Alençon and advance towards Chartres where it was stopped by the English.

From 1422 to 1428 the effort of the English was dedicated especially on Maine and Mans was taken in 1425, Anjou into sudden also the consequences the more so as the regent, the duke of Bedford, had been made allot the titles of duke of Anjou and count of Maine. The English domination was maintained more than twenty years on Maine and Anjou.

It is in 1448 that the Angevins dukes of the family of Valois recovered their possessions. The king Rene of Anjou, one of the most cultivated princes of his time, born in 1409, mark deeply the province in the middle of the 15th century. The " Good king René" dies in 1480 with Aix-en-Provence.

In 1481, after its death, Louis XI definitively joins together Anjou with the crown of France in 1482.

Rebirth with the French revolution

XVIe-XVIIIe centuries

At the 16th century, under the reign of Henri II, set up seventeen general receipts entrusted to general treasurers (edict given to Blois in January 1551) and 21 Généralité S or country of elections.

The baillaiges of Anjou, the Maine and the Touraine are joined together, as at the time of Large Anjou of Foulque Nerra, in the Généralité of Turns.

Bailliage of Anjou. 701 parishes. 80.810 fires.
Bailliage of Maine. 586 parishes. 55.333 fires.
Bailliage de Touraine. 616 parishes. 74.177 fires.

At the 18th century, the extent of the Généralité of Turns requires the payment taken by decree of the Council of July 18th 1787 which allowed the training of three assemblies within this important general information: Anjou, Maine and Touraine. These three assemblies appreciably recovered the limits of the old royal provinces. Nevertheless certain districts did not coincide with those of the general information, because the parochial limits and of country evolved/moved with the wire of time. These three assemblies met in August 1787 then in November 1787.

Legal funds: Anjou belongs to the countries of " large gabelle ". Anjou includes/understands sixteen special courts or " attics with salt " : Angers, Wallow, Beaufort, Bourgueil, Candé, Castle-Gontier, Cholet, Craon, the Arrow, Saint-Florent-the-Old, the Ingrandes-on-Loire, Lude, Pouancé, Saint-Rémy-the-Game preserve, Richelieu, Saumur.

The French revolution

The Généralité of Turns according to the general Payment of January 24th, 1789 (General states) was organized with a certain number of modification which let predict the dismantling of the old royal provinces.
Indeed, on November 11th 1789, the Constituent Assembly abrupt the things by ordering to the deputies old provinces to act in concert, in order to set up a network of new departments of approximately 324 square miles, is 6.561 km ² actuels.
meetings are held at once in the hotel of the duke of Choiseul-Praslin, deputy of the nobility of the Sénéchaussée of Angers. About thirty deputies (of the three provinces) present plan to reassign territories with the Poitou and to subdivide the field remaining in four departments, around the traditional capitals, Tours, Angers and Mans, and around the town of Laval, which would recover grounds of Maine and Anjou.
on November 12th 1789, 25 deputies (of the three provinces) approve this division, but the two representatives of Saumur, from Tool bags and Cigougne, dissociate from this decision. The Resident of Saumur pleads in favor of a department of Saumur located at the crossroads of the three provinces of Anjou, Touraine and Poitou, with Loudun for the division of the capacities. They show the representatives of Angers to get along with their colleagues of Maine and of Touraine for the cutting-up of the seneschalsy of Saumur. They also show them to give up in Touraine 24 parishes in the past angevines (around Castle-the-Vallière and of Bourgueil). Dissatisfaction grows, the manifest population of Bourgueil for her maintenance in Anjou and is solidarized with Saumur. During this time, the representatives of Chinon, following the example those of Saumur also try to create their own department. Dissensions appear within the municipal council of Saumur. Certain representatives of the Nobility and the Clergy approve the cutting suggested by Angers. In December of the same year, Loudunais break their agreement with Saumur.
on January 14th 1790, the National Assembly issues that " Saumur and the Resident of Saumur will belong to the department of Anjou ".
Integrated in the department of " the Mayenne-and-Loire " (future " Maine-et-Loire "), Saumur tries to share with Angers the function of chief town. Having lost the part, the representatives of Saumur proclaim that the rotation between Angers and Saumur makes it possible to thwart the intrigues and the cabals which are born from the fixity…
on Monday, May 24 1790, they obtain 104 votes in favor of the rotation, but 532 votes decide in favor from a permanent headquarter in Angers. The new department is made up. The constituent Assembly ratifies this structure on June 22nd 1790 and the King on June 25th 1790.
In order to calm the susceptibility of the Resident of Saumur, the 36 members of the new council of the department carry to their presidency Gilles Blondé of Bagneux (former mayor of Saumur). Thus until November 1791, the first president of the general advice of Maine-et-Loire, will be Saumur-native.

Anjou is divided into several seneschalsies or bailliages, gathered under the name of " Seneschalsies of Anjou ".
Lists of the bailliages principal, followed number of deputies to elect and name of the bailliages or seneschalsies secondary:

Seneschalsy of Angers, 16 deputies, (Wallow, Beaufort, Castle-Gontier, the Arrow);
Seneschalsy of Loudunois to Loudun, 4 deputies;
Seneschalsy of Maine to the Mans, 20 deputies, (Beaumont-the-Viscount, Castle-of-Dormouse, Fresnay-the-Viscount, Laval, Mamers, Holy-Suzanne);
Seneschalsy of Saumur, 4 deputies;
Bailliage de Tours, 16 deputies, (Châtillon-on-Indre, Chinon, Langeais, Loaches, Montrichard).

The seneschalsy of Angers keeps its prerogatives on almost the whole of Anjou which will become the future Département of Maine-et-Loire, like on the whole of the Mayenne angevine (Castle-Gontier and Craon) and on the major part of Maine angevin (the Arrow and Lude) less the baillage independent of Castle-of-Dormouse attached to the principal seneschalsy of the Mans.
The Resident of Saumur always constitutes a seneschalsy independent of that of Angers but which integrated nevertheless the Département of Maine-et-Loire, on the other hand the Resident of Saumur still keeps for some time its authority on Mirebeau, Moncontour and Richelieu. Loudunais, which separates the seneschalsy from Saumur in two distinct zones, also forms a seneschalsy independent of that of Angers.

The title of Duc of Anjou was still carried by two Valois, by Henri III before he is king and by his brother and heir to the crown of France, the prince François de France (1555-1584).

The title of the duke of Anjou was the third most important prerogative in France (after the Dauphine one and the duchy of Orleans). Thus Gaston (wire of Henri IV) and Philippe (wire of Louis XIII) were briefly duke of Anjou before becoming duke of Orleans. The duchy of Anjou was given then to two wire of Louis XIV dead young person and to its second small Philippe son who became later king d' Espagne under the name of Philippe V. The title was then given to the third back grandson of the sun king Soleil, Louis XV. Louis XVIII also accepted the title.

Contemporary period

Following the extinction of the Bourbons of France in 1883, the Bourbon-Anjou (going down from the king Philippe V of Spain) asserted the throne of France. The applicants with the throne took to the title of duke of Anjou among them prince Jacques (Ier) (about 1909-1931), prince Alphonse-Charles XII (1931-1936), the prince Jacques-Henri VI (1947-1975), the prince Alphonse II (1975-1989). Today the title is carried by the prince Louis (XX) (since 1989), the princess Marie-Marguerite (woman of prince Louis, married in 1995), the princess Emmanuelle (woman of the prince Henri VI and grandmother of prince Louis).

Heraldic

The armorial bearings of the Ingelgeriens are not known.

It is supposed that the weapons of the first house of Anjou were of azure, with the chief of mouths, the rays of gold escarbouble, stitching on the whole . But that holds more of the myth, because the weapons did not have, at that time, yet of hereditary feature attached to the name and especially, they do not appear before second half of the 11th century. In fact thus probably the Plantagenêt, with Geoffroy Plantagenêt were the first to be carried some: of azure, with six gold lions posed 3,2 and 1

The first house capétienne of Anjou carried: of sown azure of flowers of lily of gold, a lambel of mouths stitching on the whole

The second house capétienne of Anjou carried: of azure to the three flowers of lilies of gold posed 2 and 1 and to the edge of mouths .

After Plantagenêts become kings d' Angleterre, the two French houses of Anjou, which followed one another (1246-1480), carried as from 1270 one sown of flowers of lily to the edge of mouths. The king Charles V replaced sown weapons of France by three flowers and, later in 1480, its descendant, Louis XI, join together Anjou with the Crown definitively. Anjou, preserving its crack (the edge), thus took again the new weapons of France.

Lists of the communes of historical Anjou located out of the Maine-et-Loire

At the time of the French revolution, the institutions of the Ancien Mode are put at bottom. The territories and fields of the Old French provinces, strongholds of dynasties of counts and dukes will be dismantled in order to be able to leave the place to the Nation républicaine.
The creation of the French Départements meets this political aim and will be effective on March 4th 1790, pursuant to the law of December 22nd 1789.
The province of Anjou will be found divided and distributed on seven departments: (alphabetically)

Indre-et-Loire
Loire-Inférieure
Maine-et-Loire
Mayenne
the Sarthe
Two-Sevres
Vienna

- the County of Vendôme a long time possession of the County of Anjou then Duchy of Anjou, was attached to the royal field good before the Revolution.

- During the creation of the General information of Turns at the 16th century, Castle-of-Dormouse, of share its geographical location and history closely related on Anjou and the Maine; becomes the seat of a particular government with a governor and a lieutenant of the king, and the chief town of a seneschalsy which extended its jurisdiction on 78 parishes, as well as a ground of election from which 83 parishes depended.

Communes of the old province of Anjou located in the department of the Indre-et-Loire (37)

Sown in April-the-Culverts, Benais, Sling-on-Maulne, Bourgueil, Breaches, Channay-on-Lathan, the Vault-on-Loire, Castle-the-Vallière, Chouzé-the-Dryness Chouzé-sur-Loire, Continvoir, Couesmes, Courcelles-with-Touraine, Gizeux, Men, Ingrandes-with-Touraine Lublé, Marcilly-on-Maulne, Restigné, Rillé, Saint-Laurent-of-Flax, Saint-Nicolas-with-Bourgueil, Saint-Philibert-of-the-Lawn, Saint-Symphorien-the-Culverts, Savigné-on-Lathan, Villiers-with-Bouin the.

Finally the town of Richelieu (as well as the parishes located around this city), was attached administratively, during its creation by Richelieu, with the governor of Saumur and the Sénéchaussée of Saumur.

Old fortified towns angevines with the the Middle Ages, become royal fortresses:
Chinon, Langeais, Loaches.

Commune of the old province of Anjou located in the department of Loire-Atlantique (44)

Boissière-of-Gilded the located on Right Bank of the river Divatte, belonged to the steps of Anjou until the 18th century. The parish was attached to the diocese of Nantes before being integrated, during the creation of the French departments in 1790, with that of the Loire-Inférieure.

The commune of Boissière-of-Gilded the located on the slope " Anjou" river Divatte, constitutes an enclave angevine in the department of the Loire-Atlantique, department to which it owes its membership only with one negligence of its inhabitants: indeed, those omitted to send delegates to Paris in 1789 during the replacement of the provinces by the departments, to deliver an opinion on the fate which would be reserved to them being given their typical location (Boissière then formed part of the common steps of Brittany and Anjou. This absence had as a consequence the arbitrary fastening of the commune at the Loire-Atlantique, with the only reason which it depended as well as Champtoceaux, Landemont, the Game preserve, Saint-Laurent-of-Furnace bridges, Saint-Saver-with-Landemont) of évêché or diocese of Nantes. Boissière was thus on this detached occasion of the Mauges and of Anjou and the river Divatte lost its historical role of border of Anjou.

Communes of the old province of Anjou located in the department of the Mayenne (53)

Ampoigné, Nickle silver, Atheistic, Azé, Bundles, Bazouges, Bierné, Beaumont-Foot-of-Ox, the Boissière, Bouchamps-lès-Craon, Bouère, Borough Philippe, Brains-on-the-Walks, the Vault-Craonnaise, Castle-Gontier, Lord of the manor, Chemazé, Chérancé, Congrier, Cosmes, Thimble-the-Vivien, Coudray, Craon, Cuillé, Daon, Denazé, Fountain-Glaze, Cold-Makes, Fromentières, Gastines, Genoa-on-Glaize, Grez-in-Bouère, Houssay, Laigné, Laubrières, Buret, Delivered, Loigné-on-Mayenne, Longuefuye, Marigné-Peuton, Mée, Méral, Mesnil, Niafles, Origné, Peuton, Pommerieux, Quelaines, Renazé, Rouaudière, Roë, Filleted, Saint-Aignan-on-Roë, Saint-Brice, Saint-Charles-the-Forest, Saint-Denis-in Anjou, Saint-Erblon, Saint-Extremely, Saint-Gault, Saint-Germain-with-the Homel, Saint-Laurent-of-Mortars, Saint-Wolf-of-Dorat the, Saint-Martin-Villenglose, Saint-Martin-of-Cleat, Saint-Michel-of-Pretend, Saint-Michel-with-the-Roë, Saint-Pitch, Saint-Quentin-the-Angels, Saint-Sulpice, the Saddle-Craonnaise, Senonnes, Simple, Varennes-Torturer, Villiers-Charlemagne.

Communes of the old province of Anjou located in the department of the the Sarthe (72)

Arthezé, Aubigné-Racan, Bailleul, Bazouges-on-the-Dormouse, Beaumont-Foot-of-Ox, Dung, the Bruère-on-Dormouse, the Vault-with-Cabbages, Vault-of Aligned, Castle-the Hermitage, Chenu, Courtillers, Cré on Dormouse, Créans, Crosmières, Dissé-under-the-Lude, Dureil, the Arrow, Lavernat, Louailles, Lude, Luceau, Mayet, Our-Lady-of-EP, the Parcé-on-Sarthe, Gripped, Précigné, Pontvallain, Saint-Germain-with Arcé, Verneil-the-Weak Saint-Germain-of-valley, St-March-with-Cré, Holy-Dove, Savigné-under-the-Lude, Thorée-the-Pines, , Verron, Unpleasant-under-Malicorne, Vion, Vouvray-on-Dormouse.

Strongholds, according to the times, having belonged to Anjou or Maine, even to both (time of the Plantagenêts): Castle-of-Dormouse, Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Communes of the old province of Anjou located in the department of the Two-Sevres (79)

Face-Loretz, (dependant, under the Old Mode, of the seneschalsy of Saumur), Loublande, Saint-Maurice-the-Fougereuse and Saint-Pierre-of-Échaubrognes the (old parishes of the Mauges) (Saint-Pierre-of-Échaubrognes the was even a commune of the Maine-et-Loire until in 1823).
Enfin the following communes belonged to the Steps of Anjou: Saint-Pierre-with-Field, Cersay, and Face-Saint-Paul.

Particular cases: Parishes raising at the same time of the steps of Anjou and Poitou: Nickle silver-the Church, Bagneux, Brion-près-Thouet, Genneton, Louzy, Massed, Saint-Leger-with-Montbrun, Saint-Martin-with-Mâcon, Saint-Martin-with-Sanzay, Saint-Cyr-the-Moor, Tourtenay.

Communes of the old province of Anjou located in the department of the Vienna (86)

Amberre, Angliers, Arçay, Aulnay, Low, Berrie, Berthegon, Beuxes, Bournand, Ceaux-in-Loudun, Chalais, Champigny-the-Dryness, Cherves, Chouppes, Craon, Cuhon, Curçay-on-Divine, Dercé, Frontenay-on-Divine, Glénouze, Guesnes, the Roadway, Grimaudière, the Rock-Rigault, Maisonneuve, Massognes, Mirebeau, Trois-Moutiers, Martaizé, Maulay, Mazeuil, Messais, Messemé, Moncontour, Mount-on-Guesnes, Morton, Mouterre-Silly, Our-Lady-with Or, Nueil-under-Faye, Ouzilly-Flat-bottom, Pouançay, Pouant, Prinçay, Ranton, Raslay, Roiffé, Rossay, Saint-Chartres, Saint-Clearly, Saint-Jean-of-Save, Saint-Laon, Saint-Leger-with-Montbrillais, Saires, Saix, Sammarçolles, Ternay, Thurageau, Varennes, Orchard-on-Divine , Wart, Vézières, Vouzailles.

famous Personalities born in Anjou

Ludovic Alleaume, born in 1859 in Angers - died in Paris, painter and engraver.
Brace Amyraut, born in 1596 with Bourgueil, died in 1664 with Saumur, was a Théologien Protesting French. He occupied an important place in the history of the reformed theology of the 17th century.
David of Angers (Pierre-Jean David, known as) (1788 - 1856), sculptor. His/her Pierre-Louis father, already sculptor, excelled in the fine delicate and inventive woodworks. Pierre-Jean follows the courses of drawing of Delusse, then gains Paris. In 1811, it gains the price of Rome with “the death of Épaminondas”. Sculptor of the “great men” and especially of the romantic writers. In 1830, it meets Goethe in Weimar and carries out its bust. It left a considerable number of works: 55 statues, 115 busts, more than 500 medallions, but also quantity of letters. Its convictions were deeply republican. Victor Hugo admired his talent.
Fanny Ardant, born on March 22nd 1949 with Saumur, actress and actress.
Jean-Marc Ayrault, socialist French politician, born in 1950 with Maulévrier, deputy and mayor of Nantes.
Edouard de Barthélemy, born with Angers in 1830, deceased with Paris in 1888. Member of many Learned societies.
Andre Bazin (1918 - 1958), critical and theorist of cinema.
Herve Bazin, pseudonym of Jean-Pierre Herve-Bazin (1911 - 1996), writer in particular of the novel Viper with the fist .
Rene Bazin (1853 - 1932), writer, novelist, journalist, historian, essay writer and author of accounts of voyages.
Pierre Auguste Béclard, (1785, Angers - 1825 Paris), doctor and anatomist French.
Joseph Bedier, resisting and off-set Second world war.
Joachim of Bellay (1522-1560), Joachim of Bellay, writer and poet, is born about 1522 with Liré, in Anjou, with the Château of Turmelière. It remained regularly in Angers to go in another family residence the castle of Gizeux located within the old limits of historical Anjou, in the north of Bourgueil. He dies in Paris in 1560.
Marc Berdoll, born in 1953 with Trélazé, former French international footballer.
François Bernier, (born in 1620, Played, in Anjou - died in 1688, Paris), philosopher epicurean and traveller French.
Charles Ernest Beulé, born in Saumur in 1826 and died in 1874, was a French archeologist and politician.
Jean Bodin (1529, Angers 1596, Laon), lawyer, economist, philosophical, political adviser. He is the inventor of the concept of sovereignty of the State.
Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, born in 1759 with Juvardeil in Anjou, died in 1793. Ordering Vendean armies during the insurrection of the royalists.
Jean Carmet (1920-1994), born with Bourgueil (large historical Anjou located in Indre-et-Loire).
Fernand Cartwright (1868-1928), manufacturer of cars to whom Octave Mirbeau dedicated the 628-E8 .
Claudius-Small Eugene (1907 - 1989) politician.
Eugene Chevreul (1786 - 1889), chemist.
Edouard Cointreau (1849 - 1923), skilful, creative industrialist of famous crystalline liquor scented with the orange (Dry Triple), still manufactured with the Cointreau factory, which lodges a museum.
Family Thimble-Brissac.
Family of Craon, former family of France, known as of the 11th century.
Curnonsky (1872 - 1956), gastronome.
Léo Delibes is a French type-setter born with the Arrow (High-Anjou of the the Sarthe) in 1836 and died with Paris in 1891.
Abel Aubert Of Small-Thouars the, navigator and French explorer, born in 1793 (with the Castle of Fessardière), with Turquant, deceased in 1864 with Paris.
Aristide Aubert Of Small-Thouars the, captain, (brother of Louis Marie), born in 1760, (Castle of Boumais), close to Saumur died in 1798 with Aboukir.
Louis Marie Aubert Of Small-Thouars the French botanist, (brother of Aristide Aubert), born in 1758 (Castle of Boumais), close to Saumur and died in 1831 with Paris.
Henri Dutilleux (1916 -), type-setter.
Paul de Farcy (1841 Castle-Gontier - 1918 Angers, historian.
Jean Hearth politician and French lawyer, born in 1921 with Contigné.
Jean Frain of Tremblay, Jean Frain, writer angevin, lord of Tremblay (born and died in Angers (1641 - 1724), angevin author, French writer.
Rene Gasnier, (1874 - 1913), pilot of plane angevin.
Daniel Gélin (1921 - 2002), actor, realizer and scenario writer.
Louis Auguste Victor de Ghaisne de Bourmont, born and died in Freigné (1773 - 1846), Marshal of France.
BETTINA Goislard, born in 1974 in Saumur, killed in November 2003 with Ghazni in Afghanistan. French employee of Office of the High Commission for the refugees of the United Nations, working in Afghanistan.
Julien Gracq (1910), writer, born with Saint-Florent-the-Old.
Emile Joulain Refined 1900 - 1989, writer and patoisant poet.
Louis-Marie of Révellière-Lépeaux also spelled Larévellière (born in a family of landowners of the Anjou, the August 24th 1753 - died the March 27th 1824 with Paris), appointed Third-state with the constituent Assembly.
Geoffroy of the Turn-Landry (1330-1402/1406) resulting from a family of the nobility angevine, knight and writer.
Marc Leclerc, Resident of Saumur born in 1874 and died in 1946, French writer.
Pierre the Rent, sior of the Brush, famous démonographe, born in 1550 with Oil, village of Anjou, close to Durtal.
Jules Eugene Lenepveu (1819, Angers - 1898, Paris), painter.
Andre Leroy (1801-1875), famous and important nursery gardener angevin.
Marie-Sophie Leroyer de Chantepie, born in 1800 with Castle-Gontier died in Angers in 1888, écrivaine French.
Felix Lorioux, born and died in Angers, (1872-1964), illustrator.
Nicolas Mahut, born in Beaucouzé in 1982, French tennis player.
Hippolyte Maindron sculptor born in 1801 with Champtoceaux died with Paris in 1884.
Marie of Anjou (1404 Angers 1463), girl of Louis II of Anjou and woman of Charles VII.
Gilles Spares, (Angers, August 15th 1613 - Paris, July 23rd 1692), grammairien and writer French.
Prosper Ménière, doctor, was born there in 1799.
Jean-Adrien Draper (1889 - 1995), poster artist and illustrator.
Yvon Péan - known as Guerin Defontaine - born in 1928 in Fountain-Guerin. Celebrate writer of Rimiaux and patoisant storyteller of the speech Angevin.
Julien Peleus, known as also Julien Pilieu (1550, Angers - 1625, Paris), is a lawyer, historian, writer and poet French.
Guillaume Poyet, (Angers 1473- April 1548), Magistrate and lawyer French exerting in Angers and Paris.
Pierre of Primaudaye, known as Barred (born towards 1546, died in 1620), member of a many family of Angevins Protestants, is a writer distinguished from the end of the 16th century.
Joseph Louis Proust, born on September 26th, 1754 with Angers and dead on July 5th, 1826 in Angers, was a French chemist.
Rene 1 {{er}} (known as Good king Rene) (1409 - 1480), duke of Anjou, Lorraine and Bar, count de Provence, king de Naples, of Sicily and Jerusalem.
Yves Robert, born in 1920 with Saumur, dead on May 10th, 2002, actor, scenario writer, realizer and producer French.
Guillaume of the Rocks born in 1165 or 1170 with Longué-Binoculars in Anjou. Seneshal of Anjou.
Alphonse Toussenel (March 17th 1803 with Montreuil-Bellay - April 30th 1885 with Paris) is a French writer and journalist.
Pierre Charles Trémolières, born with Cholet in 1703, died in Paris in 1739. Painter angevin.
Claude François of Verdier of Sorinière, born in 1702, writer angevin.
Volney Constantin-François Chassebœuf of Giraudais, count Volney, known as Volney, born on February 3rd 1757 with Craon in the High-Anjou of the Mayenne angevine and dead on April 25th 1820 with Paris, is a French philosopher and orientalist. He is regarded as the precursor of the ethnologists, anthropologists and sociologists of the 20th century.

Softness angevine

The moderated climate, the beauty of the landscapes ligériens, the architectural style of the residences and many other details, make of Anjou a pleasant province where it makes good things in life. Who better than the poet Joachim of Bellay could immortaliser this art of living.

Happy which, like Ulysses, went on a beautiful journey (drawn from the Regrets - 1558)

More I like the stay which my aïeux built,
That Roman palates the daring face,
More than the hard marble I like the slate fine
More my Gallic Loire, that the Latin Tiber,
More my small Lira, that the Palatine Hill,
And more than the sea air softness angevine.

See too

County of Anjou | List of the counts and dukes of Anjou | Ingelgeriens | Plantagenêts
general Généalogie of Capétiens
Maison capétienne of Anjou-Sicily
the Corniche Angevine
the Département of Maine-et-Loire
the speech Angevin ( Dialect or patois of Anjou )
the Rimiaux of Anjou ( tales and poems in speaking angevin )
the High-Anjou
the Mayenne angevine
the Maine angevin
the Boule of fort
the Cuisine angevine
Vignoble of Anjou Anjou is a great area Viticole and Viticultural.

External bonds

http://a.gen.a.club.fr/anjou.html
http://www.geneadic.com/htm/hist.htm
http://www.francebalade.com/anjou/
http://www.historicanjou.fr/blog/ Blog collaboratif on the History of Anjou

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