Cour-Cheverny

Toponymy

• The name Cour-Cheverny has its origins in the vulgar Latin word, curtis, meaning farm. It seems likely, then, that the village of Cour-Cheverny was once a large piece of land belonging to the nearby village of Cheverny.
• Over the years the village has had other names, such as Cour-en-Sologne, the name by which it was known up until the 19th century.
• The church was mentioned in 1145 as belonging to the Abbey of Bourgmoyen. It came under the diocese of Chartres at the time. Cour-Cheverny would have been a curtis, or farm, near to the small town of Cheverny, which began to grow in size and importance in the 6th century.

  Sights

• The Château of Sérigny, la Sistière, Beaumont, Chantreuil, les Murblins, and la Taurie.
• La Borde is a renowned psychiatric clinic offering institutional psychotherapy treatments
• The 12th-century church of Saint-Aignan, which was altered in the 16th and 17th centuries, has a nave with two bays, two aisles, a semi-circular apse, arcades of two-centred pointed arches, ribbed vaulting with a keystone dating from 1609, an east-facing great door and a tall framed spire on a central bell tower.
• The Chapel of Sérigny.
• The Oratory of la Boide.
• The Conon Valley.
• The Beuvron, a 115 km long tributary of the Loire, that runs into the Loire at Candé-sur-Beuvron.

  Population

Economy

Wine

Tourism

Events

• Weekly market day: Tuesday.
• Town's saint's day: Whit Monday;
• Town show: Easter and the Sunday following 15 August.
• Saint Vincent's Day, in honour of the patron saint of wine-growers, celebrated on 22 January.
• Bread Festival, first weekend in July.
• Flea Market, first weekend in August.
• Saint Cecilia's Day, in honour of the patron saint of musicians, celebrated on 22 November.

  Hotels

Sports

• Football
• Tennis
• Table Tennis
• Basketball
• Badminton

Personalities

• Paul Renouard, the 19th-century artist, born in Cour-Cheverny
• Jean-François Deniau, a statesman and writer, 1928–2007.
• Alain Souchon, the singer, songwriter and actor