" 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.

Saumur () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

The historic town is located between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and is surrounded by the vineyards of Saumur itself, Chinon, Bourgueil, Coteaux du Layon, etc.

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 ).

The School of Saumur is the name used to denote a distinctive form of Reformed theology taught by Moses Amyraut at the University of Saumur in the 17th century.

The Château de Saumur, originally built as a castle and later developed as a château, is located in the French town of Saumur, in the Maine-et-Loire département.

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.

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.

The architecture of Saumur is very well described in the book: Saumur-Promenade D ' architectures, by Marie Jane Durand, and published by the Tourism Office of Saumur.

The description given in the book is different from that of the pas d ' armes held at Razilly and Saumur ; conspicuously absent are the allegorical and chivalresque ornamentations that were in vogue at the time.

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.

There is a small amount of Malbec grown in the middle Loire Valley and permitted in the AOCs of Anjou, Coteaux du Loir, Touraine and the sparkling wine AOC of Saumur where it is blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Gamay.

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

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.

Chenin blanc is an authorized planting in many Appellation d ' origine contrôlée ( AOC ) regions but is mostly planted in the Middle Loire AOCs of Anjou, Bonnezeaux, Crémant de Loire, Coteaux de l ' Aubance, Coteaux du Layon, Jasnières, Montlouis, Quarts de Chaume, Saumur, Savennières, and Vouvray.

It can also be used in the sparkling wines of Saumur and some Muscadet producers have begun experimenting with oak aged Chardonnay.

In line with the Saumur area's equestrian tradition and its famous " Cadre Noir ", the castle also serves as a Museum of the Horse.

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.

A graduate of the armored cavalry school of Saumur, he is also a reserve army captain.

He also joined the École des Officiers de Réserve de la Cavalerie ( Reserve Cavalry-Officers School ) in Saumur.

The only surviving exemplar of the CA1, at the Musée des Blindés in Saumur, is also the world's oldest tank in full running condition.

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 ".

There is also a separate cavalry museum at Saumur.

She was also raised at Château de Chaintré, the Sonnery family estate near Saumur, Maine et Loire.

Amyraldism ( or sometimes Amyraldianism, also known as the School of Saumur, Hypothetical universalism, Post Redemptionism, Moderate Calvinism, or Four-point Calvinism ) primarily refers to a modified form of Calvinist theology.

Josué de la Place ( also, Josua Placeus ; c. 1596 – August 17, 1665 or possibly 1655 ) was a French theologian who was born at Saumur.

The French casualties, seventeen Cadets of the Cadre noir Saumur Cavalry school, killed between 17 and 20 June 1940, are buried in the enclosure of the 11th century Saint-Eusèbe church built over an ancient Gallo-Roman sanctuary, on a hilltop overlooking the scene of their sacrifice.

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.

Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate gouvernement, which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais.

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.

* Ministry of Culture database entry for Château de Saumur

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.

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.