Maintenon
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir | |
| Arrondissement | Chartres | |
| Canton | Epernon | |
| Community association | Chartres metropolis | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 35 ′ N , 1 ° 35 ′ E | |
| height | 97-166 m | |
| surface | 11.44 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,292 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 375 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 28130 | |
| INSEE code | 28227 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-maintenon.fr/ | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Maintenon is a French municipality with 4292 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Eure-et-Loir , Region Center-Val de Loire , about 60 kilometers southwest of Paris and about 17 kilometers northwest of Chartres . It is located on the banks of the Eure River in the fertile landscape of the Beauce .
history
In the Middle Ages , the Seigneurie Maintenon belonged to the domain of the Counts of Montfort and was devastated in the Hundred Years War and during the First Huguenot War. After Maintenon had been raised to barony under his lord Louis Charles François d'Angennes in 1595 , Louis Charles' son achieved the elevation of the property to marquisate in 1641 .
When Françoise d'Aubigné , who later became the mistress and secret wife of Louis XIV , bought the lordship including the moated castle in 1674, the king elevated her to a marquisate with peerage (French: marquisat-pairie) in 1688, whereupon its owner at the time today mainly under the Name Madame de Maintenon is known.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2978 | 3325 | 3313 | 3388 | 4161 | 54440 | 4481 | 4292 |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
Attractions
- Maintenon Castle and its extensive park in the style of an English landscape garden
- Gothic castle church Saint-Nicolas from the 16th century
- 17th century baroque church Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre church
Saint-Nicolas church
Maintenon Castle
Personalities
- Jean-François Collin d'Harleville (1755–1806), poet and playwright
- Joseph Maunoury (1847–1923), general and posthumous Marshal of France
- Élisabeth d'Ayen (1898–1969), tennis player
- Bruno de Keyzer (1949–2019), cameraman
literature
- Françoise Chandernagor, Georges Poisson : Maintenon . Norma Éditions, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-909283-66-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c mairie-maintenon.fr ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed April 21, 2009.
