The siege which it endured in 1472 at the hands of the Duke of Burgundy, was rendered famous by the heroism of the town's women, under the leadership of Jeanne Hachette, whose memory is still celebrated by a procession on 14 October (the feast of Sainte Angadrême), during which women take precedence over men.
V listini datirani v 1056/1060, je Éon I. de Penthièvre dodelil zemljišče »in pago Belvacensi« (Beauvais, Picardija) samostanu Saint-Aubin v Angersu.