In addition to his church, the village, set alongside the foundations of Château-Gaillard, retains its historic habitat in its natural environment and varied mills, manor houses, ponds, farms in the 17th and 18th centuries. Originally part of the Grand Perche, Perche Cross began later under the protection of third Gouët Guillaume, who led several attacks against the lands of the Count of Perche, Rotrou III, taking advantage of his departure to the Crusades, the Cross is the Perche and attached to the Perche Gouët by some historians. The town is famous for the Battle of the Cross of Perche in 1589 who lives under Henry III, the victory of the royal troops of the Count of Soissons, led by the Sieur de Fontenay, a cavalry Leaguers and for being quoted in a Bossuet severe homily at the court of Versailles, in the presence of Louis XIV, when the great famine of 1662 brought the first 4 months of the year alone, 17 deaths, including 9 children, a population of 300 inhabitants.
The antiquity of the name, which may date back to early centuries of Christianity, "in Crux Pertico" gives its authenticity and legitimacy to the common Percheron, crossed to the south by Foussard, a tributary of the Loire, situated along a path Roman connecting to Dunois.
