Bourgueil

Bourgueil is a common French of the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the area Center.

Its inhabitants is called Bourgueillois, Bourgueilloises.

Geography

History

Integral part of the province of Anjou and her history, the area of Bourgueil (including the field of the castle of Gizeux and until Castle-the-Vallière) was attached in 1790 to the very new department of the Indre-et-Loire.

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 Bourgueil.

May 24th 1589, Duplessis-Mornay governor of Saumur (1589-1621) does not order only the town of Saumur, it takes the head of a special government which is detached from the Anjou. This Seneschalsy of Saumur, includes in the north of the the Loire the country of Bourgueil.
The country bourgueillois (extending until Ingrandes towards the East and to the castle from Gizeux in North) will depend on the Sénéchaussée of Saumur until the French revolution.

The French revolution

November 11th 1789, the Constituent Assembly orders to the deputies old provinces to act in concert, in order to set up a network of new departments of approximately 324 square miles, that is to say 6.561 km ² actuels.
Des meetings are held in the hotel of the duke of Choiseul-Praslin, deputy of the nobility of the Sénéchaussée of Angers.
Une about thirty deputies (of the three provinces constituting the General information of Turns: Anjou, Maine and Touraine) 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.

November 12th 1789, the representatives of Saumur, 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.

January 14th 1790, the constituent Assembly of 1789 issues that " Saumur and the Resident of Saumur will belong to the department of Anjou".

The Constituent Assembly ratifies this structure on June 22nd 1790 and the King on June 25th 1790. The Bourgueillois country is detached from the Resident of Saumur and is separated from Anjou, to integrate the very new department of the Indre-et-Loire.

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