Véretz

Véretz is a common French, located in the department of Indre-et-Loire and the area Center. The name decides Véretss but the inhabitants of the area say Vérette more usually.

The inhabitants of Véretz are called the Véretzois .

Geography

It is a village in the middle of Touraine, near to Chenonceaux and Amboise. It is located on the Cher, upstream of the town of Tours (12 km).

History

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population, 1794-1999

Tourism

Véretz has its municipal camp-site 2 stars, on the Cher.

Véretz joined again with the tradition of the Batellerie, by developing river tourism with its association “the marines of the Jean Bricau”, of the name of the last boatman having exerted at the village. This association proposes stroll on the Cher in a fûtreau of traditional construction.

Places and monuments

castle of Veretz, rebuilt at the 19th century, dominates the Valley of the Cher at the entry of the village.
Chavonnière, large house of vine grower with two wings at right angles.
monument with the memory of Paul-Louis Courier who goes back to 1876, on the central place of the low-village.
manor of Gagnerie (19th century),
manor of Pidellerie (15th/19th century)
manor of Manse to the locality Guérinière (20th century).
Notre-Dame church of the 16th century: ogival nave, vault seigneuriale formant platform, projecting transept, chorus of two spans, bell-tower at base 12th and stages 16th century.

Personalities related to the commune

A.D.G., of its true name Alain Fournier (1947-2004), journalist of Extreme right-hand side and author of detective novels, born in Véretz the December 19th 1947, buried with the cemetery of Véretz.
Gabrielle d' Estrées, favorite from Henri IV born with the castle of Bourdaisière in 1565 came to be stripped in its house of the quay Henri IV in Véretz to bathe in Expensive.
Madam de Sévigné, celebrates it épistolière 17th century, regularly returned to visit to his/her friend the abbot of Effiat, in the castle of Véretz, which it described as “the house which passes all that you saw of beautiful, of pleasant, of splendid”.
Paul-Louis Courier, French lampoonist born in Paris in 1772 and dead assassinated close to Véretz in 1825, passed the last part of its life vine grower of its state, in a farm tops of the village. It rests with the communal cemetery.
Eugene Bizeau, poet modern, of anarchistic inspiration, lived all its life with Véretz (1883-1989). The village hall bears its name.

See too

Common of Indre-et-Loire

External bonds

Site of the town of Véretz
Véretz on the site of INSEE

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