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Cholet
Cholet (, , probably from Latin language, Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a Communes of France, commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire Departments of France, department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the Prefectures in France, prefecture Angers. Geography Cholet stands on an eminence on the right bank of the river Moine (river), Moine, which is crossed by a bridge from the fifteenth century. It is about 50 km southeast of Nantes. Cholet is the centre of the Agglomeration community of Cholet with about 107,000 inhabitants.CA Agglomération du Choletais (N° SIREN : 200071678)
BANATIC. Accessed 24 March 2022.
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Cholet - Eglise Notre-Dame
Cholet (, , probably from Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture Angers. Geography Cholet stands on an eminence on the right bank of the river Moine, which is crossed by a bridge from the fifteenth century. It is about 50 km southeast of Nantes. Cholet is the centre of the Agglomeration community of Cholet with about 107,000 inhabitants.CA Agglomération du Choletais (N° SIREN : 200071678)
BANATIC. Accessed 24 March 2022.
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Cholet - Jardin Du Mail (1)
Cholet (, , probably from Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture Angers. Geography Cholet stands on an eminence on the right bank of the river Moine, which is crossed by a bridge from the fifteenth century. It is about 50 km southeast of Nantes. Cholet is the centre of the Agglomeration community of Cholet with about 107,000 inhabitants.CA Agglomération du Choletais (N° SIREN : 200071678)
BANATIC. Accessed 24 March 2022.
It is the seat of the



Arrondissement Of Cholet
The arrondissement of Cholet is an arrondissement of France in the Maine-et-Loire department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 32 communes. Its population is 224,581 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Cholet, and their INSEE codes, are: # Beaupréau-en-Mauges (49023) # Bégrolles-en-Mauges (49027) # Cernusson (49057) # Les Cerqueux (49058) # Chanteloup-les-Bois (49070) # Chemillé-en-Anjou (49092) # Cholet (49099) # Cléré-sur-Layon (49102) # Coron (49109) # Lys-Haut-Layon (49373) # Mauges-sur-Loire (49244) # Maulévrier (49192) # Le May-sur-Èvre (49193) # Mazières-en-Mauges (49195) # Montilliers (49211) # Montrevault-sur-Èvre (49218) # Nuaillé (49231) # Orée-d'Anjou (49069) # Passavant-sur-Layon (49236) # La Plaine (49240) # La Romagne (49260) # Saint-Christophe-du-Bois (49269) # Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet (49299) # Saint-Paul-du-Bois (49310) # La Séguinière (49332) # Sèvremoine (49301) # Somloire (49336) # La Tessoualle ...
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Second Battle Of Cholet
The Second Battle of Cholet was fought on 17 October 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French Republican forces under General Jean Léchelle and French Royalist Forces under Maurice d'Elbée. The battle was fought in the town of Cholet in the Maine-et-Loire department of France, and resulted in a Republican victory. D’Elbée was wounded and captured; he was later executed by Republican troops in Noirmoutier. The Royalist insurgent, Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, was fatally wounded in the battle. Prelude On the morning of 16 October 1793, the Vendéen army, beaten at the Battle of La Tremblaye, with neither ammunition nor artillery, had evacuated Cholet to take up positions in Beaupréau. The republican avant-garde, commanded by Beaupuy, entered in the town square by the south and moved through the town to settle on the high grounds north of the town. Kléber then deployed the remainder of his troops by positioning the divisions of Beaupuy and Hax ...
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Agglomeration Community Of Cholet
The Agglomération du Choletais, also simply known as CAC, is the intercommunal structure gathering the city of Cholet and its suburbs. It is located in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'', in the Pays de la Loire ''région'' (France). It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération du Choletais, the Communauté de communes du Bocage and the Communauté de communes du Vihiersois-Haut-Layon. Its area is 788.0 km2. Its population was 104,382 in 2018, of which 54,186 in Cholet proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022.


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The Agglomération du Choletais gathers the following 26

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War In The Vendée
The war in the Vendée (french: link=no, Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution from 1793 to 1796 in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the river Loire in Western France. Initially, the revolt was similar to the 14th-century Jacquerie peasant uprising, but the Vendée quickly became counter-revolutionary and Royalist. The revolt headed by the newly-formed Catholic and Royal Army was comparable to the Chouannerie, which took place in the area north of the Loire. While elsewhere in France the revolts against the were repressed, an insurgent territory, called the by historians, formed south of the Loire-Inférieure (Brittany), south-west of Maine-et-Loire (Anjou), north of Vendée and north-west of Deux-Sèvres ( Poitou). Gradually referred to as the "Vendeans", the insurgents established in April a " Catholic and Royal Army" which won a succession of victories in the spring and summ ...
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Canton Of Cholet-1
Canton of Cholet-1 is a canton of France, located in the Maine-et-Loire department, in the Pays de la Loire region. Since the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton contains the southwestern part of the commune of Cholet. See also * Arrondissement of Cholet * Cantons of the Maine-et-Loire department * Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Canton of Cholet 1
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Canton Of Cholet-2
Canton of Cholet-2 is a canton of France, located in the Maine-et-Loire department, in the Pays de la Loire region. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 10 to 26 communes (7 of which merged into the new commune Lys-Haut-Layon): * Cernusson * Les Cerqueux * Chanteloup-les-Bois *Cholet (partly) *Cléré-sur-Layon * Coron *Lys-Haut-Layon *Maulévrier *Mazières-en-Mauges *Montilliers *Nuaillé *Passavant-sur-Layon * La Plaine *Saint-Paul-du-Bois *Somloire *La Tessoualle *Toutlemonde *Trémentines * Vezins * Yzernay See also * Arrondissement of Cholet * Cantons of the Maine-et-Loire department * Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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Gilles Bourdouleix
Gilles Bourdouleix (born 15 April 1960 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire) is a French politician and former member of the National Assembly of France. He was the deputy for Maine-et-Loire's 5th constituency from 2002 to 2017. He is also the former spokesman of the National Centre of Independents and Peasants, of which he has been the president since 24 October 2009. Bourdouleix was a founding member of the Union of Democrats and Independents, a party from which he resigned on 24 July 2013. Political life Gilles Bourdouleix was elected mayor of Cholet the first time on 19 June 1995 with a lead of 148 votes. He succeeded Maurice Ligot who was his chief of staff. He was elected mayor again in the second round of voting in March 2001 with 61.69% of the votes. He was again reelected in 2008. In 2002, Bourdouleix was elected a member of the National Assembly of France as a member of the UMP. He has continued to serve in the office since then, though switching parties to Union of Democrats ...
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Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-et-Loire to the east, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres to the south, Vendée to the south-west, and Ille-et-Vilaine to the north-west. It also borders Ille-et-Vilaine in the north for just , France's shortest department boundary. Its prefecture is Angers; its subprefectures are Cholet, Saumur and Segré-en-Anjou Bleu. Maine-et-Loire had a population of 818,273 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 49 Maine-et-Loire
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Maine-et-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the

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Maulévrier
Maulévrier () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. Points of interest *Parc Oriental de Maulévrier which is the biggest Japanese garden in France See also *Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): Communes of Maine-et-Loire {{MaineLoire-geo-stub ...
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Angers
Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called ''Angevins'' or, more rarely, ''Angeriens''. Angers proper covers and has a population of 154,508 inhabitants, while around 432,900 live in its metropolitan area (''aire d'attraction''). The Angers Loire Métropole is made up of 29 communes covering with 299,500 inhabitants (2018).Comparateur de territoire
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Not including the broader metropolitan area, Angers is the third most populous