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Moncontour, Vienne
Moncontour () is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. It was the site of the Battle of Moncontour in 1569. Notable people The composer Raymond Vaillant was born here on 21 January 1935. Politician Maria Rabaté was born in Moncontour, on 3 July 1900. Demographics Sites and monuments Image:Moncontour donjon.JPG, Moncontour keep Image:Moncontour86 lac.jpg, Lake of Moncontour Image:Moncontour86 plage.jpg, Recreation spot, built in 2006 See also *Communes of the Vienne department The following is a list of the 265 communes of the Vienne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienne (department)
Vienne ( ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Viéne'') is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It takes its name from the river Vienne. It had a population of 438,435 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 86 Vienne INSEE History Established on 4 March 1790, during the French Revolution, Vienne is one of the original 83 departments. It was created from parts of the former of Poitou,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the Regions of France, administrative regions and the Communes of France, communes. There are a total of 101 departments, consisting of ninety-six departments in metropolitan France, and five Overseas department and region, overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 Arrondissements of France, arrondissements and 2,054 Cantons of France, cantons (as of 2023). These last two levels of government have no political autonomy, instead serving as the administrative basis for the local organisation of police, fire departments, and, in certain cases, elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council (France), departmental council ( , ). From 1800 to April 2015, these were called gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes in a territorial reform. Nouvelle-Aquitaine has an area of – more than of Metropolitan France – and has a population of 6,033,952 . The new region was established on 1 January 2016, following the 2015 French regional elections, regional elections in December 2015. It is the largest region in France by area (including Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas regions such as French Guiana), with a territory slightly larger than that of Austria. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city, Bordeaux, together with its suburbs and satellite cities, forms the seventh-largest metropolitan area of France, with 850,000 inhabitants. The region has 25 major urban areas, among which the most important after Bordeaux are B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of France
France is divided into eighteen administrative regions (, singular ), of which thirteen are located in metropolitan France (in Europe), while the other five are overseas regions (not to be confused with the overseas collectivities, which have a semi-autonomous status). All of the thirteen metropolitan administrative regions (including Corsica ) are further subdivided into two to thirteen administrative departments, with the prefect of each region's administrative centre's department also acting as the regional prefect. The overseas regions administratively consist of only one department each and hence also have the status of overseas departments. Most administrative regions also have the status of regional territorial collectivities, which comes with a local government, with departmental and communal collectivities below the regional level. The exceptions are Corsica, French Guiana, Mayotte and Martinique, where region and department functions are managed by single l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Moncontour
The Battle of Moncontour occurred on 3 October 1569 between the royalist Catholic forces of King Charles IX of France, commanded by Henry, Duke of Anjou, and the Huguenots commanded by Gaspard de Coligny. Battle Weeks before, Coligny had lifted the siege of Poitou and positioned his army in hopes of gaining an advantage over the approaching Royalist forces. However, a flanking manoeuvre by Saulx-Tavannes along the River Dive forced him from this position. This coincided with Henry's objective to keep Coligny's army from joining Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery's forces operating in the South of the country. Coligny attempted to rectify the situation by moving to a better location across the River Thouet. But he was delayed by a strike by his German mercenaries, who demanded their pay before moving. By the time he was able to get underway, the Royalist army had formed a line of battle and were advancing on his flank. With no choice now but to fight, Coligny formed up to meet them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Vaillant
Raymond Vaillant (21 January 1935 – 18 February 2006) was a French composer. Life Born in Moncontour (Vienne), from 2 April 1962 until 1995, Vaillant held the position of librarian at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and at the music department at the Opéra Garnier where he carried out an immense amount of work on palaeography, identifying and indexing the works preserved since the first French opera '' Pomone'' by Robert Cambert to the most recent works. Music studies * In Paris: harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Julien Falk. *Analysis and composition with Claude Ballif. *Henri Dutilleux the address to Max Deutsch with whom he studied the Second Viennese School and the great masterpieces of the past; he later became Max Deutsch's assistant in the composition class at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Catalogue of works * Trio Op. 1, 1968. lute, cello & piano First performance Monday, February 17, 1969 at the Théâtre de la Musique-Gaîté Lyrique, by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Rabaté
Maria Rabaté (3 July 1900 - 8 February 1985) was a French politician, writer, and school teacher. She was a member of the French Communist Party, trade unionist, and elected representative of the 1st district of Seine in the French Parliament, from 1946 to 1960. She was also appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor for the Resistance. Life She was born as Maria Bernuchon on July 3rd, 1900 in Moncontour, Vienne, and her father was a school teacher and a pacifist. From 1916 to 1919, she studied at the École Normale in Châteauroux, where she credits her teachers with influencing her political views. She was trained as a teacher and appointed to teach in 1922. She met her husband, Octave Rabaté, and had two children with him, Claude Marie (born in 1928), and Jean (born in 1931), eventually marrying Rabaté in 1953, in Paris. Career Rabaté was active in politics throughout her career, joining a union after she completed her education, and joining the French Communist Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Vienne Department
The following is a list of the 265 communes of the Vienne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Communauté urbaine
(; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (). A is composed of a city ( commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes).
The first communautés urba ... Grand Poitiers
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