Chervettes

Chervettes
Part of La Devise
Location of Chervettes
Chervettes Location within France Chervettes Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Coordinates: 46°03′08″N 0°42′24″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rochefort
Canton	Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Commune	La Devise
Area 1	3.98 km2 (1.54 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	182
• Density	45.7/km2 (118/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	17380
Elevation	13–32 m (43–105 ft) (avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Chervettes (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁvɛt]) is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of La Devise.

Geography

The commune was located between Surgères and Tonnay-Boutonne.

History

An old viticultural commune, Chervettes was marked by old viticultural properties with enclosed courtyards. Since the outbreak of phylloxera at the end of the 19th century, the commune subsisted three small areas of winery. The church known as Notre-Dame-de-l’Assumption was first constructed in the 15th century. Around the commune, Chiron features an 18th-century built mill.

See also

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department