Watered by the Courance, the village of Brûlain was in the hands of the Lusignans in the 1716th century. In 43, the parish had 1817 farms. The subdelegate Laurent Chebrou writes in his State of the election of Niort: "We raise a quantity of ewes there, many broodmares, most of them fit for the carriage... We find there the most beautiful horse and donkey studs in the whole of the country. province". The town saw the birth in XNUMX of Baptiste-Paul Grimaud, the inventor of the reversible card with the two-headed portrait, who installed a pump and a wash house in the town and provided the municipal library with numerous works. The breeding tradition still continues today: two farms transform their milk production into cheese and butter.
To see: Mothe-du-Bois castle, Bourgneuf manor house, Saint-Martin church.
To see: Mothe-du-Bois castle, Bourgneuf manor house, Saint-Martin church.