Travel Guide Moutiers-Les-Mauxfaits

Moutiers comes from "moustier", monastery. Around the year 1000, there were two monasteries: Saint-Michel and Saint-Jacques. After the Celtic presence, then that of the Gauls - the locality is located on the famous "green road" frequented at the time by salt workers transporting salt from the ocean to the center of France - there were "Romanized" populations, converted to Christianity in the 4th and5th centuries. On the site where the castle of La Cantaudière will stand, there was a Gallic oppidum, then, in the 4th century, a Roman fortress with palisades. After the Norman invasions of the 4th to 8th century, the town depended on the lords of Talmont in the 12th century, and became an English possession through the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry Plantagenet, King of England. In 1348, the town was plundered and burned by the knight Guy d'Apremont. In 1479, the Moutierrois having property, were taxed 9 pounds, 12 cents and 6 deniers by the envoys of the King of France, Louis XI, who needed tax revenue to fight against the Duke of Burgundy. During the Vendée wars, Charette and his royalist troops launched several attacks against the town, the Moutierrois having proved to be republicans. In terms of heritage, don't miss the covered market (1765), then visit the late Romanesque church of Poitevin, classified as a historical monument. Built at the beginning of the 12th century with local stone, granite, and which welcomed, in 1305, the future Pope Clement