Cholet
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Cholet | |
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Subprefecture and commune | |
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Coordinates: 47°03′36″N 0°52′42″W / 47.060000°N 0.8783°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Pays de la Loire |
Department | Maine-et-Loire |
Arrondissement | Cholet |
Canton | Cholet-1 and 2 |
Intercommunality | CA Choletais |
Government | |
• Mayor (2021–2026) | Gilles Bourdouleix[1] (CNIP) |
Area 1 | 87.47 km2 (33.77 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 53,936 |
• Density | 620/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 49099 /49300 |
Elevation | 63–184 m (207–604 ft) (avg. 124 m or 407 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Cholet (French: [ʃɔlɛ] , local pronunciation: [ʃɔ(ː)ɫe], probably from Latin cauletum, "cabbage") is a commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire department.[3] With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture Angers.[4]
Geography
Cholet stands on an eminence on the right bank of the river Moine, which is crossed by a bridge from the fifteenth century.[5] It is about 50 km southeast of Nantes. Cholet is the centre of the Agglomeration community of Cholet with about 107,000 inhabitants.[6] It is the seat of the arrondissement of Cholet and of the cantons Cholet-1 and Cholet-2.[3]
History
The town owes the rise of its prosperity to the settlement of weavers there by Édouard Charles Victurnien Colbert , count of Maulévrier, a brother of the great Jean-Baptiste Colbert.[5] It then became an estate of Gabriel-François de Rougé and marquess of Cholet, who developed the town and its economy. The main commercial mall, opened in 2009, is named after him: the "Arcades Rougé".[7]
During the early years of the French revolutionary wars, the town found itself at the heart of the counter-revolutionary struggle in the Vendée, culminating in October 1793 with the Battle of Cholet which was won by the republicans and followed by a period of brutal government repression.
According to the Jan. 10th 1885 edition of Corbett's Herald, a temporary theatre had collapsed on an audience of 1000, causing 150 fatalities.
Demographics
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Cholet proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Cholet absorbed the former commune of Le Puy-Saint-Bonnet in 1973.[8]
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Source: EHESS[8] and INSEE (1968-2017)[9] |
Sights
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Cholet_-_Jardin_du_Mail_%281%29.jpg/220px-Cholet_-_Jardin_du_Mail_%281%29.jpg)
A public garden occupies the site of the old castle; the public buildings and churches, for example the Church of the Sacred Heart (église du Sacré-Cœur, 1939), are modern. The Church of the Sacred Heart is in the Byzantine Romanesque style and was the work of the local architect Maurice Laurentin.[10] The Church of Our Lady (église Notre-Dame) is listed as a "monument historique"[11]
Megalithic monuments are numerous in the vicinity.[5]
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Cholet_-_Eglise_Notre-Dame.jpg/220px-Cholet_-_Eglise_Notre-Dame.jpg)
A textile museum (Musée du Textile) exists to conserve the traditional machines used to create the famous handkerchiefs made in this town, as well as the techniques used to make them and the oral and local history associated with the industry.
Economy
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At the start of the 20th century, there were granite quarries in the vicinity of the town. The chief industry was the manufacture of linen and linen handkerchiefs, which was also carried on in the neighboring communes on a large scale. Woolen and cotton fabrics were also produced, and bleaching and the manufacture of preserved foods were carried on. Cholet was the most important center in France for the sale of fat cattle, sheep and pigs, for which Paris was the chief market.[5]
Transport
Cholet Aérodrome serves Cholet. The Gare de Cholet railway station offers regional services towards Nantes and Angers. The network of urban and periurban buses is provided by Choletbus.
Education
Sport
SO Cholet is based in the commune as is Cholet Basket.
Cholet hosted Stage 4 (Individual Time Trial) and was the departure of Stage 5 in the 2008 Tour de France. It was scheduled to host a Team Time Trial stage in the 2018 Tour de France and Stage 3 of the 2018 Tour de France started and finished in Cholet.
In Cholet held annually in March the Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire, a single-day road bicycle race. Between 2004 and 2015 took place Cholet Pays de Loire Dames, a women's one day cycle race.
Twin towns - sister cities
Cholet is twinned with:[12]
Notable people
- Kévin Barré (b. 1990), footballer
- Gilbert Prouteau (1917–2012), poet and film director.
- François Morellet (1926–2016), painter, sculptor and light artist
- Antoine Rigaudeau (b. 1971), basketball player
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ a b INSEE commune file
- ^ Populations légales 2019: 49 Maine-et-Loire, INSEE
- ^ a b c d Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 267.
- ^ CA Agglomération du Choletais (N° SIREN : 200071678), BANATIC. Accessed 24 March 2022.
- ^ "Cholet. Les Arcades Rougé seront bientôt revendues". Ouest-France (in French). 9 May 2016.
- ^ a b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Cholet, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Augustin Jeanneau, Cholet et les Choletais après la belle époque, Cholet: Les Éditions du Choletais, 1974; p. 167
- ^ Direction de la communication de la ville de Cholet, "Programme de réhabilitation des édifices cultuels", Cholet mag (261, October 2012): 8
- ^ "Europe et International". cholet.fr (in French). Cholet. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
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