Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Colonne commémorative, située à l'intersection de deux routes départementales
Torfou, Maine-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La colonne commémorative en totalité (cad. domaine public, non cadastré) :inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/07/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édicule commémoratif
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1826
- Commune
- Torfou
- Département
- Maine-et-Loire
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.03193, -1.09221
- Mérimée reference
- PA49000090
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1824 map "A Map of the Vendee, South of the Loire and North of Brittany North of that River." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La colonne, dont la première pierre a été posée le 19 septembre 1826, a été érigée par le marquis de la Bretesche, châtelain du Couboureau, en commémoration, et sur le site même, de l'une des levées en masse significatives de la révolte vendéenne , en 1793.
English translation
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History
The column, whose foundation stone was laid on 19 September 1826, was erected by the Marquis de la Bretesche, castellan of Couboureau, in commemoration and on the very site of one of the significant mass uprisings of the Vendée revolt in 1793.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.