Saint-Georges-sur-Erve
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Saint-Georges-sur-Erve is a commune
in the Mayenne
department in north-western France
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Saint Georges is a pretty little village in the Coevrons hills with the river Erve running through it. From the 16th to the 19th century, 43 water mills in this and other villages had taken their mechanical energy from the Erve for milling, tanning, fulling, paper production, sawmills and forges. There was a forge by the river until the last century and local restaurant is called La Forge. There are also privately owned caves at Rey which were inhabited in pre-Gallic times.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Mayenne
Mayenne
Mayenne is a department in northwest France named after the Mayenne River.-History:Mayenne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. The northern two thirds correspond to the western part of the former province of Maine...
department in north-western France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Saint Georges is a pretty little village in the Coevrons hills with the river Erve running through it. From the 16th to the 19th century, 43 water mills in this and other villages had taken their mechanical energy from the Erve for milling, tanning, fulling, paper production, sawmills and forges. There was a forge by the river until the last century and local restaurant is called La Forge. There are also privately owned caves at Rey which were inhabited in pre-Gallic times.