La Ferté-Vidame
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La Ferté-Vidame |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Centre |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir |
| Arrondissement | Dreux |
| Canton | La Ferté-Vidame |
| Intercommunality | L'Orée du Perche |
| Mayor | Jean-Pierre Jallot (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 214–286 m (702–938 ft) (avg. 246 m or 807 ft) |
| Land area1 | 39.81 km2 (15.37 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 766 (2008) |
| - Density | 19 /km2 (49 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 28149/ 28340 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Coordinates: 48°36′44″N 0°54′06″E / 48.6122°N 0.9017°E
La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
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[edit] History
The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. The most famous men to bear the title vidame de Charteres were the English soldier Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460), and the famous memoirist Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. The chateau was Saint-Simon's main country house. At the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794. Its chateau is now a roofless shell.[1]
[edit] Population
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
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| Population | 693 | 793 | 790 | 784 | 801 | 818 | 766 |
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View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Gouache on paper.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ See the photo in the French Wikipedia article
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