Usseau (Deux-Sèvres)
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| local community | Val-du-Mignon | |
| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Deux-Sèvres | |
| Arrondissement | Niort | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 35 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 79210 | |
| Former INSEE code | 79334 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | http://www.usseau.fr/ | |
 City Hall (Mairie) of Usseau |
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Usseau is a commune Déléguée in the French commune of Val-du-Mignon with 877 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Deux-Sèvres in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016 Poitou-Charentes ). The inhabitants are called Uxellois .
On January 1, 2019, the municipality of Usseau merged with Priaires and Thorigny-sur-le-Mignon to form Commune nouvelle Val-du-Mignon. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of Usseau belonged to the Arrondissement of Niort and the canton of Mignon-et-Boutonne (until 2015 Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon ).
geography
Usseau is about 48 kilometers east of La Rochelle and about 24 kilometers southwest of Niort am Mignon . Usseau is surrounded by the villages of La Rochénard in the north, La Foye-Monjault in the east and northeast, Prissé-la-Charrière in the east, Thorigny-sur-le-Mignon in the southeast, Priaires in the south, and Saint-Saturnin-du-Bois in the Southwest and Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon in the west and northwest.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
| Residents | 711 | 670 | 643 | 654 | 670 | 673 | 824 | 893 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Pierre fortified church from the 12th century
- Olbreuse Castle, Monument historique since 1973
- Mill ruin
Saint-Pierre church
Olbreuse Castle
Personalities
- Eleonore d'Olbreuse (1639–1722), from 1676 Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
