Avaray
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Coordinates: 47°43′24″N 1°33′55″E / 47.7233°N 1.5653°ECoordinates: 47°43′24″N 1°33′55″E / 47.7233°N 1.5653°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
Department | Loir-et-Cher |
Arrondissement | Blois |
Canton | La Beauce |
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• Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-François Mézille[1] |
Area 1 | 13.88 km2 (5.36 sq mi) |
Population (Jan. 2018)[2] | 734 |
• Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 41008 /41500 |
Elevation | 75–118 m (246–387 ft) (avg. 106 m or 348 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Avaray is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.
History[]
Avaray is a French territorial title belonging to a family some of whose members have been conspicuous in history. The Béarnaise family named moved into the province of Orléanais in the 17th century, and there acquired the estate of Avaray. In 1667 , marquis d'Avaray, obtained the office of grand bailiff of Orleans, which was held by several of his descendants after him.[3]
, marquis d'Avaray, was deputy for the bailliage of Orleans in the states-general of 1789, and proposed a as a pendant to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen; he subsequently became a lieutenant-general in 1814, a peer of France in 1815, and duc d'Avaray in 1818. Antoine Louis Francois de Besiade, comte d'Avaray, son of the above, distinguished himself during the Revolution by his devotion to the comte de Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII, whose emigration he assisted. Having nominally become king in 1799, that prince created the estate of a duchy, under the title of Avaray, in favour of the comte d'Avaray, whom he termed his "liberator".[3]
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Sights[]
The Château d'Avaray was built in the 16th century; of this building only four corner towers remain. In the 1730s a central building with two curving wings was erected. The park is magnificent and is said to have been designed by Le Nôtre.[4]
See also[]
- Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department
References[]
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Prinet 1911, p. 51.
- ^ Châteaux of the Loire. (Nagel Travel Guide Series.) Geneva: Nagel; p. 45
- Attribution
- public domain: Prinet, Léon Jacques Maxime (1911). "Avaray". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 51. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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