OAK TRAIL (AUBIGNY-LES CLOUZEAUX)

Departure from the parking lot of the Aubigny sports hall.

This place is now part of the village, two windmills turned there in the 19th century belonging to the Guignard/Craipeau family. Then cross the Girouardière flow which will flow to the north into the Jarrie stream near Colette.

Usually this name refers to the presence of an umbrella pine, which was planted on the occasion of a happy family event such as the birth of the first child.

A plot of land is called "la Douve" vestige of an old castle perhaps? Near this village, we cross a marine Pliocene geological zone: red sands, rolled pebbles.

The Frogers are mentioned from the XNUMXth century, old house and old mill, Lordship and old noble hotel belonging to the barony of Essarts. In the XNUMXth century the house was inhabited by a famous Huguenot: Louis Boutaud, involved in the first conflicts of the wars of religion.

Chichié wrote Chichay in 1368, a stronghold dependent on the Abbey of Fontenelles. In this village, on the site of Baillargeau, were found vestiges relating to an ancient funerary cult dating from the XNUMXth to the beginning of the XNUMXth century BC.

Writes Montconseil on the old cadastres because it is a highest point (70 m) on the border between Aubigny and Les Clouzeaux. From 1841 to 1921, it was the most populated village in Les Clouzeaux. There is no longer any trace of the mill which must have been in operation at the end of the XNUMXth century.

Former noble hotel quoted from 1469, in the 1757th century it was the Frappier who called themselves sieurs du Landreau. This village is known for the birth, in XNUMX, of Luc-Augustin Bacqua, future surgeon in Nantes, who will carry out the first caesarean section of this time when the mother and the child will have survived. According to oral tradition, there is an underground passage and the inhabitants of the village have filled in the entrance.

This name would be of Germanic origin. The name "grass" meaning armed and daring man.