Touraine was settled by Jews and Romans[verification needed] until their persecution and eventual expulsion from the region in 1306 caused by antisemitism.

[4] Pontlevoy's abbey made the town an important commercial and cultural center, founded in 1034 by Gelduin de Chaumont and re-established in 1644 by cardinal Richelieu.

The Clergeau collection is as remarkable a picture of French life as the work of the photographer Jacques H. Lartigue.

Pontlevoy is about five miles from the river Cher, which up to November 1942 was the dividing line between occupied and unoccupied France.

[4] On the corner of the Avenue Malingie and the Route de Montrichard, Pontlevoy has erected a small concrete cenotaph commemorating its martyrs and victims of Nazism from 1939 to 45.