Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse

Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse is a common French located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

Geography

History

in 1212, the young shepherd Estienne gathered young people (or the poor) of the area for what one called children the Croisade.
Emile Zola took as a starting point the place and Romilly-on-Sourness (Bad tempers) for its novel the Earth.

Administration

Common of the Canton of Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse: Mée, Ferté-Villeneuil, Langey, Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse, Boisgasson, Saint-Pilgrim, Arrou, Courtalain, Châtillon-in-Dunois, Saint-Hilaire-on-Yerre, Douy, Montigny-le-Gannelon, Charray, Autheuil, Romilly-on-Sourness.

All the communes of the canton are integrated in the Communauté of communes of the Three Rivers. (in reference to the three rivers crossing the canton: The Dormouse, the Yerre and the Sour ).

Demography

Places and monuments

Church saint Georges
Vault Notre-Dame d' Yron

Personalities related to the commune

Jean François Albert Of Pouget de Nadaillac, anthropologist and paleontologist, who died in the castle of Rougemont.

Twinning

(), to see Site of the city

Tally of life

Gone: every saturday (morning)
flowered City: 1 flower allotted by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.

See too

Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

Official site of the city
Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse on the site of the national geographical Institute
Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse on the site of INSEE
Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse on the site of Quid
Localization of Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Cloyes-on-the-Dormouse on Mapquest
the country Dunois

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