La Ferté-Vidame
La Ferté-Vidame | |
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 View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of La Ferté-Vidame  | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir |
| Arrondissement | Dreux |
| Canton | La Ferté-Vidame |
| Intercommunality | L'Orée du Perche |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Jean-Pierre Jallot |
| Area 1 | 39.81 km2 (15.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2008) | 766 |
| • Density | 19/km2 (50/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 28149 /28340 |
| Elevation | 214–286 m (702–938 ft) (avg. 246 m or 807 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
History
The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. Among the famous men to bear the title vidame de Chartres were the English soldier Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460), Jean de Ferrieres, and the 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.
Castle
The Château de la Ferté-Vidame was substantially rebuilt by the architect Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier in 1771. It is now a roofless shell.[1]
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 693 | — |
| 1968 | 793 | +14.4% |
| 1975 | 790 | −0.4% |
| 1982 | 784 | −0.8% |
| 1990 | 801 | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 818 | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 766 | −6.4% |
See also
References
- ^ See the photo in the French Wikipedia article
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