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Bouvron is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

in the Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique is a department on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean.-History:...

department in western France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

Geography

Bouvron is near the following communes : Blain

Blain

-People:*Brian Blain, Australian actor*John Blain, Scottish cricketer*John Blain , Canadian football player*Michelle Blain, American writer*Milton Blain, Australian engineer*Philippe Blain, French volleyball player and coach...

, Fay-de-Bretagne

Fay-de-Bretagne

Fay-de-Bretagne is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...

, Guenrouet

Guenrouet

Guenrouet is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France....

, Savenay

Savenay

Savenay is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France and the Pays de la Loire region. Located on the Sillon de Bretagne , north of the Loire, its landscape is characterized by the hillside overlooking the marshes of the Loire...

, Campbon

Campbon

Campbon is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France....

and Quilly

Quilly

Quilly may refer to the following:* Quilly, Ardennes, a commune in the Ardennes department, France* Quilly, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, France* Quilly, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland...

. The commune is near the Canal de Nantes à Brest

Canal de Nantes à Brest

The Nantes-Brest canal is a French canal which links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through inland Brittany. It was built during the 19th century and its total length is 385 km with 238 locks from coast to coast...

and the forest of Gâvre.

Bouvron is situated 36 km to the east of Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire , is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.The town has a major harbour, on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean. The town is at the south of the second-largest swamp in France, called "la Brière"...

and 49 km to the north of Nantes

Nantes

Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....

History

The tradition went that the name "Bouvron" derived from the word bovus because Bouvron was anciently reputed for its fair for the trade of young oxen. and the merchants of these animals were known as the bouverons. But the name Boveron or Bouveron appeared in the texts only from the 12th century onwards, whereas in one text dated 8 May 878 from the cartulary of Redon Abbey

Redon Abbey

Redon Abbey, or Abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon , in Redon in the present Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France, is a former Benedictine abbey founded in 832 by Saint Conwoïon, at the point where the Oust flows into the Vilaine, on the border between Neustria and Brittany.-History:In 832 Ratwili, a local...

, the name Buluuron is used for the estate when it was granted to the abbey, in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine

Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine

-Breton language:The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 10 October 2008.In 2008, 14.31% of the children attended bilingual schools in primary education.-Economy:* Cargill Texturising Systems - A pectin factory...

. An etymological study reveals that "Buluuron" is derived from the Gallic

Gauls

The Gauls were a Celtic people living in Gaul, the region roughly corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland and Northern Italy, from the Iron Age through the Roman period. They mostly spoke the Continental Celtic language called Gaulish....

bébronnos, made up of bébros (= "beaver") and onnos (= "river").

Demography

Historic population
1962: 2278 inhabitants
1968: 2285 inhabitants
1975: 2295 inhabitants
1982: 2334 inhabitants
1990: 2402 inhabitants
1999: 2411 inhabitants

Places and monuments

Monument of the surrender of the Poche of Saint-Nazaire the 11th of May 1945

This monument is a reminder that the Second World War in Europe concluded on the 11th of May 1945 in Bouvron, in a field, and not in Berlin on the 8th of May 1945 (or the 9th of May for the Russians).

Castle of Quéhillac

A remarkable architectural ensemble of the 16th and 17th centuries composed of the castel, the chapel, the chaplain's home, the stables, the bridge and the moats. The enseble is registered on the list of the French historical monuments "Monuments Historiques" since the 22nd of November of 2002. In 1640, Nicolas Fouquet

Nicolas Fouquet

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV...

, finance's minister of Louis XIV married in his first wedding Louise Fourché de Quéhillac, who adduces him 160.000 livres as her dowry.

Castle of Launay-Bedeau

It was a medieval castle situated in the small village of Launay-Bedeau. It was simply a fortified tower with ramparts. In 1944, it was bombed. After the Second World War, it was skimmed over, in spite of the importance of this medieval cultural heritage. The stones were reused to build a farm, a pigpen and to gravel the small ways. The only vestiges you can see now are a doorstep, a tabernacle of the chapel and, of course, the beautiful moats of the castle.

The chapel of Saint-Julien

Situated in the hamlet of Saint-Julien, on the RD43 (departemental road), this chapel was raised on the lands of the monastery of Gavalais, a village at 2.5 km in the south-west of the chapel. It is dedicated to Saint Julien the Hospitalier and accommodate a statue of this saint in military costume. Damaged at the French Revolution, this chapel was many times renovated.

Work to safeguard it were carried out in 1962.

The chapel of Saint-André

It is situated in the hamlet Le Châtel, at 1 km in south-east of Bouvron. It is dedicated to the first apostle of the Christ, St André, saint patron of the parish.

Notable people

René Waldeck-Rousseau

this gy was coolPierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau was a French Republican statesman.-Early life:Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique...

stayed numerous years in the familial secondary residence during his years out of politics.

Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

came to inaugurate the monument of the surrender of the Poche de Saint-Nazaire. The 2nd World War didn't finish the on the 8th of May 1945 in Berlin, but on the 11th of May 1945 in Bouvron, in a field.

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