Beignon

Beignon is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.

The name Breton of the commune is Benion .

Its inhabitants name the Beignonnais and Beignonnaises .

Geography

Located at the south-west of the forest of Paimpont, Beignon knew an important activity, now disappeared, of Tannage of leathers. This speciality has being supported by the possibility of using the Tanin S resulting from the forest. It should not be confused with its small neighbor: Saint-Malo-with-Beignon.

It is without true conviction that one brought his name closer to the word Breton bignon meaning source.

History

In 1789, the Boisgontier prosecutor does not grow useful to consult the inhabitants to write the Register of grievances; those meet in the cemetery on April 7th 1789 to produce a second book.

The origin of the name of the commune can be cleared up by the examination of a small business of flight arrived in 1830 at a few miles from there (Gaël). A witness, Joseph Danion, declare at the time of the lawsuit: “It employed nonwrought white sole, painted black with Couperose to imitate the Beignon ”. Another document of this file of the Magistrates' court of Montfort-on-Meu precise: “It is to be noticed that one tans sole in gray only at Mrs Legemble and Mr Métairie. The other tanners and especially those of Baignon tan in black or brown dark”. The action to bathe the skins would thus have been determining.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

The Father Gabriel Deshayes cofounder with Michele Guillaume of the congregation of the sisters of the Christian instruction now located at Saint-Gildas of wood. In 2007, the congregation will celebrate its 200 years at the same time as the foundation of the first school, in Beignon. For more information: sister-of-stgilgas-nantes.cef.fr

See too

  • Common of Morbihan

External bonds

  • Architecture of Beignon - Base Mérimée
  • Beignon on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Beignon on the site of INSEE
  • Beignon on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Beignon on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Beignon on Mapquest

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