Volnay (the Sarthe)

Volnay is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its Habitants is called Volnaysiens.

Geography

Volnay is located in the Pole Resident of Sarthe, in the south-east of the Mans.

Access

Volnay is to 5 km of the RN157 (the main road active of the Mans to Blois) and to 25 km of Mans (either a way of 30min). Volnay is also with 20min exit of A28 with Parigné-l' Évêque.

Localities and variations

the Roadway

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

Bouloire
Challes
Saint-March-with-Locquenay
Superfuse

History

The first accurate informations relating to Volnay go back to the Middle Ages. Thus the small Romance church is to be connected to a rather important prieural unit. The old priory, with cross-piece and mullioned windows, with a hexagonal tower which was used as stair-well, is sold and demolished after the Revolution. This unit, like its vault, was closed walls and girds rather deep ditches. The underground-refuge of the farm of the Rock was probably built by the monks of the priory. The law of May 11th, 1836 modifies the layout of the communes of Superfuse and Volnay. The new delimitation follows the course of Sourice.

Administration

Political tendencies

With the presidential election of 2002, the first turn saw arriving at the head Jean-Marie Le Pen with 18,31%, followed Jacques Chirac with 15,85%, Lionel Jospin with 14,75%, then Arlette Laguiller with 10,11%, Jean Saint-Jose with 8,47%, Olivier Besancenot with 7,65% and Francois Bayrou with 6,01%, no other candidate not exceeding the threshold of the 5%.

The second turn saw arriving largely at the head Jacques Chirac with 75,36% compared with 24,64% for Jean-Marie Le Pen with a rate of abstention from 15,66%, which enough different by reports/ratios with the national values (respectively 82,21% and 17,79%; abstention 20,29%).

With the referendum on the Treated of Maastricht of September 20th, 1992, Volnaysiens rejected the treaty, with 64,45% of Not against 35,55% of Yes with a rate of abstention from 28,23% (whole France: Not to 48,99%; Yes to 51,01%).

With the referendum on the constitutional treaty for Europe of May 29th, 2005, Volnaysiens rejected the European Constitution, with 61,25% of Not against 38,75% of Yes with a rate of abstention from 26,39% (whole France: Not to 54,67%; Yes to 45,33%).

With the presidential election of 2007, the first turn saw dissociating at the head Nicolas Sarkozy with 30,43%, followed by Ségolène Royal with 24,26%, Jean-Marie Le Pen with 15,11%, Francois Bayrou with 9,79%, finally Olivier Besancenot with 7,23%, Philippe de Villiers with 2,07% and Frederic Nihous with 2,55%, no other candidate not exceeding the threshold of the 2%. The second turn saw arriving at the head Nicolas Sarkozy with 52,80% (national result: 53,06%) against 47,20% for Ségolène Royal (national: 46,94%).

Lists of the mayors

Demography

Inheritance

Religious heritage

Saint-Vincent Church: XIIe S., XVIe S., ferrugineous Sandstone, Micaceous chalk, tile and slate.

This rural church is the witness of the old priory which occupied the site of the village. The nave is higher than the chorus and of the transept, and masonries, out of small apparatus, do not leave any doubt about the construction of a first Romance building. The pinion of the southern transept, bordered by a stone chevronnière and surmounted by a stone cross, attests a construction in XVIe S. Inside, the vault is panelled. The slate bell-tower is much more recent. The steps of entry of the nave and the ground of the porch are made up old tombstones.

Frescos: the frescos cover the southern walls and especially on the northern wall of the nave (they are in bad condition).

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Economy

There are currently 12 companies based with Volnay of which:

Sicamen (Brooded France)

Events

Festival of the music

Notes, sources and references

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