Saint Blaise et Saint Nicolas de la Daguenière church

La Daguenière market town was created late: in fact, it was developed thanks to the construction of the dyke, finished in the end of Middle Ages In 1518, Nicolas Houssemaine and his wife Raoulline Lelièvre created a chapel on this dyke, belonged to the Saint-Jean-des-Mauvrets' parish, on the South shore. The parish was then victim of floods from the Loire and Authion rivers. In 1733, the flood was 5 feet high (around 1.50 metres). A dyke on the left shore of the Authion river was built in...