Saint-Loup, Charente-Maritime

French commune
nomcommune=Saint-Loup
région=Poitou-Charentes
département=Charente-Maritime
arrondissement=Saint-Jean-d'Angély
canton=Canton of Tonnay-Boutonne
insee=17356
cp=17380
maire=
mandat=
intercomm=
longitude=-0.62389
latitude=46
alt moy=
alt mini=2
alt maxi=48 m
hectares=1642
km²=16.42
sans=273
date-sans=1999
dens=16.6
date-dens=1999

"Saint-Loup "" is a commune in the canton of Tonnay-Boutonne in the Charente-Maritime department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.

Geography

It became a commune in 1642 and is comprised of 21 hamlets. The area of Saint-Loup are marshy. The village lies on the Bibot which empties into the Soie and the Trézence. The Trézence empties into the Boutonne and finally into the Charente River. Most of the area is devoted to cereal and other crops including corn, etc. Other products include cattle and wine.

Life of the commune

Its football (soccer) club was founded in 1936 by the name AS Trézence. During the end of August, it organizes a randomly semi-noctural open and permits of the discovery of roads and passages of the commune. Its gastronmy serves grilled ham.

The commune has a bird migration along with the hibernal ones including ducks and waders.

History

The commune participated in the French Revolution of 1789. Its inhabitants rallied and engaged against the nobles of the village. It was renamed Epinay-Sans-Culotte (see sans-culotte). The extension "Saintonge" marked the beginning of the commune to the north of Saintonge by the Aunis frontiers by Santiago de Compostela for one example.

Remarkably hostile and mysterious, the swamplands were drained and farmlands expanded during the reign of Louis XIV. Its production are livestock including cows, beans and corn. Its seasons are from October/December to February/April.

Its inhabitants live for a long time in the wine production along with nuts. The village was affected by phylloxera in the 1860s. It marked the period by the agricultural exploitation in the marshlands and pasture.

ee also

*Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

"Based on the article in the French Wikipedia."

External links

* [http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087&CommuneId=17356 Saint-Loup on the l'Institut Géographique National site]
* [http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/co_navigation.co_page?nivgeo=C&codgeo=17356&theme=ALL&typeprod=ALL&lang=FR&quelcas=LISTE Saint-Loup in the INSEE site]
* [http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=query&req=Saint-Loup Saint-Loup on the Quid site]
* [http://www.lion1906.com/Pages/ResultatLocalisation.php?InseeVille=17356 Location of Saint-Loup in the map of France]