Deux-Sèvres [SEP] named after
Deux-Sèvres
Deux-Sèvres () is a French department. "Deux-Sèvres" literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department.
In history and literature.
"Deux-Sèvres" was one of the 83 original "départements" created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.
Departmental borders were changed in 1973 when the inhabitants of the little commune of became formally associated with the rapidly growing adjacent commune
austerity as a hermit in a place called Bois Trappeau in the commune of Ardilleux in Deux-Sèvres.
Junian acquired disciples and in 559, King Clotaire I made him a gift of land on which to found a monastery dedicated to the rule of Saint Benoît - the religious community at Mairé-l'Evescault, south of Deux-Sèvres. This isolated place evoked memories of his childhood home and Junien named it "Mariacus" - subsequently "Mairé". The "L'Evescault" was added after a great religious festival in Poitiers