| USSEAU |
Usseau
:79210
Département
: Deux-Sèvre
Canton
: Mauzé
Surface: 16,24 km ²
Inhabitants: 900 ( 2012 )
Density: 55 Hab / km °
Gentité: Uxelois
Height: 18 - 49 m
Mayor: S.DUGLEUX(2014)
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City
Hall
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 School |
4
wheels garages
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Usseau
inherited from an important Gallo-Roman heritage(holdings). Certain
recent archaeological discoveries show of the thousand-year-old history
of the municipality and make the exhibition item in its cultural center.
The
priory Saint-Peter was given by Guillaume, Lord of Usseau at the end of
the Xth century in the abbey Saint Florent de Saumur. |
 Cultural
center |
The
abbey church was destroyed and reshaped during the religious wars. The
Renaissance also made history of Usseau. Indeed, during the religious
wars, the village of Usseau was a center Huguenot
The strengthened church Saint-Peter was primitively the abbey church of
the priory Benedictine Saint-Peter. |
Church
Saint Pierre |
This
Romanic church of the XIIth century which presents Romanic capitals(big
tops) to big masks, was reshaped with construction of a Gothic chorus.
It was also strengthened and two bartizans frame the west
wall.
It contains gravestones (XVIIth - XVIIIth century) and medieval
sarcophaguses |
•
Éléonore Desmier d' Olbreuse, born in Olbreuse in
1639,
duchess of Brunswick-Lunebourg-Celle and ancestor of kings of England.
· Her daughter, Sophie-Dorothée,
married George Ier.
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Olbreuse,
castle
(we
can't visit it)
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Former
Wash house
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 Village
hall
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School
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Tennis ground
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 launch
Platform for ULM
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The economy of the
municipality bases essentially on the agriculture and the
breeding.
It shelters the Moinier limited company company, specialized in the
wholesale trade of cereal and food for the cattle.
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Bar restaurant "Chez Dominique"
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 Multi-Sports
ground
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 Garage
Maudet
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