Bréviandes

Bréviandes is a common French, located in the department of the Aube and the area Champagne-Ardenne.

Toponymy

The name of the village (and the various communes to the similar name in France) comes from " short viande" in the direction of thin pitance. Not that the peasants of formerly were accustomed to eating meat, but it should be known that the word " viande" for the food in general (of bottom Latin vivanda was then used, which is used to live, " vivance"). It is only as from the 17th century that the word " viande" will replace " chair". It is one of some villages and localities of France whose name, transmitted by small-people (popular etymology), is related on the hardness of its ground for the peasants or to the production of icelle like Rompéchine in Charente, Bapaume in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Bramefain and Balledent in the the Limousin or Make fun-Barrel in Touraine among a multitude of others…

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of Bréviandes

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Paddle

External bonds

Bréviandes on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bréviandes on the site of INSEE
Bréviandes on the site of Quid
Localization of Bréviandes on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bréviandes on Mapquest

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