It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who contributed to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian), Georges Clemenceau (head of the French Government during World War I and who signed the Treaty of Versailles with Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Woodrow Wilson) and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (who participated in the liberation of France with the Allied forces in 1945).
Pastor of Marsauceux in the commune of Mézières-en-Drouais, Eure, of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée and chaplain of the Diaconesses de Reuilly.