Maillé (Vendée)
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| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Vendée | |
| Arrondissement | Fontenay-le-Comte | |
| Canton | Fontenay-le-Comte | |
| Community association | Vendée, Sèvre, Autise | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 21 ′ N , 0 ° 47 ′ W | |
| height | 1–13 m | |
| surface | 17.66 km 2 | |
| Residents | 760 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 43 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 85420 | |
| INSEE code | 85132 | |
| Website | www.ville-maille.fr | |
 Town hall ( Mairie ) of Maillé |
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Maillé (also: Maillé-sur-Sevre ) is a French municipality with 760 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Vendée , in the Région Pays de la Loire . Maillé belongs to the arrondissement Fontenay-le-Comte and the canton Fontenay-le-Comte (until 2015: canton Maillezais ). The inhabitants are called Mailletais .
location
Maillé is about 25 kilometers west of Niort in the Marais Poitevin and the Venise Verte . The Jeune Autise runs through the municipality into the Sèvre Niortaise , which borders the municipality in the south. Maillé is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Doix lès Fontaines in the north and north-west, Maillezais in the north and north-east, Damvix in the east, La Ronde in the south, Taugon in the south-west and Vix in the west.
Population development
| 1846 | 1901 | 1921 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
| 1,270 | 1,294 | 992 | 910 | 853 | 779 | 748 | 734 | 689 | 757 | 764 |
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(since 1962 without second homes)
Attractions
- Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church, Monument historique since 1927
- aqueduct
- Mills of La Pichonnière
Personalities
- Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), Protestant military leader
- Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869), surgeon and zoologist
- François-Xavier Loizeau (* 1939), Bishop Emeritus of Digne (1997-2014)
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 470-472.
