The village appears located on a height with its bell tower emerging from a bouquet of greenery. Its name comes from the pulleys with levers known as storks with which the country's wells were once equipped. The parish, cited in 1100, was created during the clearing of the Chizé forest. Franchises are granted by the Count of Poitiers in order to attract new inhabitants. Placed on the royal roads, it dates back to the 2018th century. a place of passage for Protestant or Catholic troops. Before phylloxera, most of the commune was covered with vines producing white wine from which an eau-de-vie is said to be as good, it is said, as that of Cognac. In XNUMX, it merged with Prissé-la-Charrière, Belleville and Boisserolles to form the new commune of Plaine d'Argenson and became a delegated commune.
To see: old house of St-Etienne, St-Etienne church, Hosannière cross.
To see: old house of St-Etienne, St-Etienne church, Hosannière cross.