Place:Cholet, Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France

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NameCholet
TypeCommune
Coordinates47.067°N 0.883°W
Located inCholet, Maine-et-Loire, France
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Cholet (, probably from Latin cauletum, "cabbage") is a commune of western France in the Maine-et-Loire department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture Angers.

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The town owes the rise of its prosperity to the settlement of weavers there by , count of Maulévrier, a brother of the great Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It then became an estate of and marquess of Cholet, who developed the town and its economy. The main commercial mall, opened in 2009, is named after him: the "Arcades Rougé".

During the early years of the French revolutionary wars, the town found itself at the heart of the counter-revolutionary struggle in the Vendée, culminating in October 1793 with the Battle of Cholet which was won by the republicans and followed by a period of brutal government repression.

According to the Jan. 10th 1885 edition of Corbett's Herald, a temporary theatre had collapsed on an audience of 1000, causing 150 fatalities.

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