La Ferté-Vidame

La Ferté-Vidame
La Ferté-Vidame
Administration
Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Eure-et-Loir
Arrondissement	Dreux
Canton	La Ferté-Vidame
Intercommunality	L'Orée du Perche
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Jallot (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	214–286 m (702–938 ft) (avg. 246 m/807 ft)
Land area1	39.81 km2 (15.37 sq mi)
Population2	766  (2008)
- Density	19 /km2 (49 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	28149/ 28340
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°36′44″N 0°54′06″E / 48.6122222222°N 0.901666666667°E / 48.6122222222; 0.901666666667

La Ferté-Vidame is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

History

The title of vidame of Chartres was, under the Ancien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. The most famous men to bear the title vidame de Charteres were the English soldier Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460), and the famous memoirist Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. The chateau was Saint-Simon's main country house. At the French Revolution the seigneur was Jean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794. Its chateau is now a roofless shell.^[1]

Population

Historical population of La Ferté-Vidame

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
693	793	790	784	801	818	766

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  View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Gouache on paper.

See also

• Natural region of Thymerais
• Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department

References

• INSEE

1. ^ See the photo in the French Wikipedia article