Mouchamps

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Mouchamps
Mouchamps (France)
Mouchamps
region Pays de la Loire
Department Vendée
Arrondissement La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton Les Herbiers
Community association Pays des Herbiers
Coordinates 46 ° 47 ′  N , 1 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 47 ′  N , 1 ° 4 ′  W
height 47-121 m
surface 55 km 2
Residents 2,886 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 52 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 85640
INSEE code
Website http://www.mouchamps.com

Mouchamps is a French village with 2,886 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Vendée in the region of Pays de la Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon and the canton of Les Herbiers .

Neighboring communities

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008
Residents 2554 2434 2235 2293 2398 2442 2580

Attractions

See also: List of Monuments historiques in Mouchamps

Personalities

  • Gui L'Archevêque, Seigneur de Soubise , de Taillebourg et de Mouchamps 1327/63
  • François Viète (Vieta, 1540–1603), mathematician, wrote his first work in Mouchamps
  • Catherine de Parthenay (1554–1631), humanist and writer, born and died in Mouchamps
  • Pierre-Paul Clemenceau (1749–1825), Mayor of Mouchamps
  • Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929), President of the Republic, buried in Mouchamps
  • René Guilbaud (1890–1928), pilot, missing as Roald Amundsen's companion in search of Umberto Nobile , born in Mouchamps
  • André Ducasse (* 1894 in Mouchamps), writer, Knight of the Legion of Honor
  • Antoine Dubreil (1897–1982), racing car driver
  • Frédéric Bourdin (* 1974), criminal ("The Chameleon"), grew up in Mouchamps

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 333-342.

Web links

Commons : Mouchamps  - collection of images, videos and audio files