Placeus together with Moise Amyraut and Louis Cappel belong, as followers of John Cameron, to that theological movement at Saumur which in contrast with the orthodox Academy of Sedan sought to moderate Calvinistic doctrine by emphasizing the ethical and common human elements, without, however, departing from the fundamental principles.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchère ( 1600 – 1653 ), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

Patton went to Saumur for intense study with the master.

The Protestant Academy of Sedan had been founded in 1579 at the initiative of Françoise de Bourbon, widow of Henri-Robert de la Marck ; in 1682 the Protestant Academy at Sedan was suppressed and de Moivre enrolled to study logic at Saumur for two years.

The town of Saumur was awarded the Croix de Guerre with palm for its resistance and display of French patriotism during the war.

Saumur is home to the Cadre Noir, the École Nationale d ' Équitation ( National School of Horsemanship ), known for its annual horse shows, as well as the Armoured Branch and Cavalry Training School, the officer school for armored forces ( tanks ).

Saumur is also the scene for Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet, written by the French author in 1833, and the title of a song from hard rock band Trust ( whose lyrics express their poor opinion of the city: narrow-minded, bourgeois and militaristic ).

Amongst the most important monuments are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high overlooking the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river ; designed by the renowned architect Jean Drapeau, it is recognised for its light and elegant architecture.

* Ministry of Culture database entry for Château de Saumur

The Crémant designation was also used for sparkling wines from the Loire valley, in the form of Crémant de Saumur and Crémant de Vouvray, without being defined as separate appellations.

An other major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles ( châteaux ), such as the Châteaux d ' Amboise, de Chambord, d ' Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau, which illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the French Renaissance.

After qualifying as a candidate in medicine in 1663, he left for France, spending time in Issy, Saumur and Paris with Melchisédech Thévenot.

Mr. Saumur had been arrested 103 times for distribution of Witness literature before he decided to challenge the legality of his arrests.

Which duc de Mornay, if any, is honored in sauce Mornay is debated: Philippe, duc de Mornay ( 1549 – 1623 ), Governor of Saumur, and seigneur du Plessis-Marly, writer and diplomat, is generally the favored candidate, but a cheese sauce at his table would have to have been based on what we would term a velouté sauce, for Béchamel had not been invented.

After Richelieu's death he left Paris, joined the Reformed Church, and in 1651 obtained a professorship at the Academy of Saumur, which he filled with great success for nearly twenty years.

Born at Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, he was educated at the École Normale, and after having held the professorship of rhetoric at Moulins for a year, was sent to Athens in 1851 as one of the professors in the École Française there.

The historic role of the Saumur School of Cavalry was to provide training for the officers and non-commissioned officers of the French cavalry.

While the need for a purely military riding academy had almost vanished, the international prestige of French horsemanship ensured the survival of the Saumur training centre in the form of a national riding school under the Ministry of Sports.

Successes continued for some time: Thouars was taken in early May and Saumur in June ; there were victories at Châtillon and Vihiers.

Saumur has been the traditional training centre for cavalry and holds the current Armoured Cavalry Branch Training School.

Moses Amyraut, originally a lawyer, but converted to the study of theology by the reading of Calvin's ' Institutes ', an able divine and voluminous writer, developed the doctrine of hypothetical or conditional universalism, for which his teacher, John Cameron ( 1580 – 1625 ), a Scot, and for two years Headmaster of Saumur Academy, had prepared the way.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

From the point of view of purely judicial administration, Anjou was subject to the parlement of Paris ; Angers was the seat of a presidial court, of which the jurisdiction comprised the sénéchaussées of Angers, Saumur, Beaugé, Beaufort and the duchy of Richelieu ; there were besides presidial courts at Château-Gontier and La Flèche.

The châteaux range from the very large ( often now in public hands ) to more ' human-scale ' châteaux such as the Château de Beaulieu in Saumur or the medieval Chateau du Rivau close to Chinon which were built of the local tuffeau stone.

* The Tank museum of Saumur, which display the largest tank collection in France.

Amongst the most important monuments of Saumur are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high above the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river and which was designed by the architect Jean Drapeau.

As of 2008, there are a total of 46 buildings and structures in Saumur which are designated a Monument Historique-see the French national database Mérimée.

Amongst the other Monuments Historiques are the church of Saint-Pierre in the Place St Pierre in the centre of Saumur, and the Château de Briacé which is located on the north side of the river.

His Commentarius de Capellorum gente, giving an account of the Cappel family to which he belonged, was published by his nephew James Cappel ( 1639 – 1722 ), who, at the age of eighteen, became professor of Hebrew at Saumur, but, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, fled to England.

Chief Justice Lamer's extensive obiter did return Canadian constitutional theory to the classical model of rights implicit in the Constitution which was first developed in the Alberta Press, Saumur and Switzman cases.

He was bitterly disappointed by Henry IV's abjuration of Protestantism in 1593 and gradually withdrew from the court, devoting himself to the Academy of Saumur, which had a distinguished history until its suppression by Louis XIV in 1683.

As one of its commanders he took part in the Polish-Ukrainian War, after which he was sent to the newly-created School of Cavalry Officers in Warsaw, and then to the Application School of Cavalry in Saumur in France.

Turretin is especially known as a zealous opponent of the theology of the Academy of Saumur ( embodied by Moise Amyraut and called Amyraldianism ), as an earnest defender of the Calvinistic orthodoxy represented by the Synod of Dort, and as one of the authors of the Helvetic Consensus, which defended the formulation of double predestination from the Synod of Dort and the verbal inspiration of the Bible.

* The Protestant Academy of Saumur is repressed by King Louis XIV of France.

A Panzer IV Ausf H at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur, France, with its distinctive Zimmerit anti-magnetic mine coating, turret skirts, and wire-mesh side-skirts.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

" The university of Saumur at the same time had fixed its eyes on him as professor of theology.

But Fulk le Réchin ( the Cross-looking ), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the châtellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur ( 25 February 1067 ) and Angers ( 4 April ), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sablé.

During his brief stay at Saumur, he had assumed from the state of their home that his relatives were poor.

Chirac trained as a reserve military officer in armoured cavalry at Saumur, where he was ranked first in his year.

* Patton Hall, military hangar at the Saumur Armour Museum on loan from the French Armoured Corps and Cavalry School, Saumur, France, formerly used as a tank-restoration hall.

Ardant was born in Saumur Maine-et-Loire, France, to a military attaché father.

Several military stations and posts have also borne his name and the largest tank museum in the world, the Musée des Blindés in Saumur, is called " Musée Général Estienne ".

He was not as successful as a military commander in the field ; his first military operation saw the defeat of the Republican forces at Saumur.