Mauléon, Deux-Sèvres
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Mauléon, also known as Mauléon-Bocage () is a commune and town in the
French department In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
of
Deux-Sèvres Deux-Sèvres (, Poitevin-Saintongese: ''Deùs Saevres'') is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a ...
, in the region of
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, western
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. It is around 20 km southeast of
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, and around 70 km southeast of
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.


History

Mauléon was formed in 1965 by the merger of the two former communes of Châtillon-sur-Sèvre and Saint-Jouin-sous-Châtillon. In January 1973, Mauléon absorbed the former communes La Chapelle-Largeau, Loublande, Rorthais, Saint-Amand-sur-Sèvre, Saint-Aubin-de-Baubigné, Le Temple and Moulins. In January 1992 Saint-Amand-sur-Sèvre was re-established as an independent commune.Arrêté du 16 décembre 1991 portant modification aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (création de communes)
''Légifrance''.


Population


See also

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Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department The following is a list of the 252 communes of the Deux-Sèvres department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Deux-Sèvres Poitou {{DeuxSèvres-geo-stub