La Ferté-Vidame | |
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 View of Ferté-Vidame castle, before 1750, Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe | |
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 Location of La Ferté-Vidame | |
  La Ferté-Vidame  La Ferté-Vidame | |
| Coordinates:48°36′30″N00°53′59″E / 48.60833°N 0.89972°E /48.60833; 0.89972 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Centre-Val de Loire |
| Department | Eure-et-Loir |
| Arrondissement | Dreux |
| Canton | Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Catherine Stroh[1] |
Area 1 | 39.81 km2 (15.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 558 |
| • Density | 14.0/km2 (36.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 28149 /28340 |
| Elevation | 214–286 m (702–938 ft) (avg. 246 m or 807 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Ferté-Vidame (French pronunciation:[lafɛʁtevidam]) is acommune in theEure-et-Loirdepartment in northernFrance.
The Commune along with another 70 communes shares part of a 47,681 hectare,Natura 2000 conservation area, called theForêts et étangs du Perche.[3]
The title ofvidame ofChartres was, under theAncien Régime, attached to the lands of [La] Ferté-Arnault. Among the famous men to bear the titleVidame de Chartres wereFrançois de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres, the English soldierThomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales (d. 1460),Jean de Ferrieres, and thememoiristLouis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. The château was Saint-Simon's main country house. Until shortly before theFrench Revolution the seigneur wasJean-Joseph de Laborde, an ennobled business man with progressive views, who was to be guillotined in 1794.
In July 2019 a collector’s gathering was held at La Ferté for Citroën to mark the company's 100th anniversary. The event spread over one weekend and showed over 8,000 cars with nearly 100,000 people in attendance.
The Château de la Ferté-Vidame was substantially rebuilt by the architectAntoine Matthieu Le Carpentier in 1771. It is now a roofless shell.
At theBourbon Restoration, it was restituted to the duchess ofOrléans, as the closest relative of her fatherLouis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, the owner before theFrench Revolution. On her death in 1821, thedomaine passed to her eldest sonLouis-Philippe I, futureking of the French. He reconstituted thedomaine, rebuilt its fortified wall, repaired its water features and restored and expanded the small château, though the restoration was interrupted by theRevolution of 1848.
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1962 | 693 | — |
| 1968 | 793 | +14.4% |
| 1975 | 790 | −0.4% |
| 1982 | 784 | −0.8% |
| 1990 | 801 | +2.2% |
| 1999 | 818 | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 766 | −6.4% |
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