Between 1822 and 1905, the College of Chauvé, church and school serving the children of the minor seminary Retz, trained men like the historian Pitre Knight Paimboeuf painter or sculptor Henri Rousseau.
Today Chauvé is a common peaceful and green. Enjoy the variety of its landscape: marshes, woods, pastures, hills, quarries, ponds, streams ...
It also offers you to relax after returning from a walk, a leisure park with its lake, its benches, picnic tables, games for children, his ping-pong, his career BMX and fitness trail.
Finally do not leave without tasting Chauvé its local products: fruits of the orchard, buns, meats, vegetables and bread.
For the record: "biquetaux" was the nickname used in dialect, there are still a few years by the children of the neighboring town, swearing over the Canal de Haute Perche. The nickname owes its origin to the Revolution, means "stubborn as small Biques".