Brûlon

Brûlon is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is called Brûlonnais and Brûlonnaises.

Geography

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

History

Claude Chappe carries out his first public experiment of remote communication in Brûlon on March 2nd 1791. The experiment consisted in placing two mobile dials equipped with needles and figures, called Tachygraphe, respectively installed in its native village of Brûlon and the distant village of the Parcé-on-Sarthe of 14 km. The experiment, which consisted in sending a message in each direction, was succeeded and authenticated by an official report. Claude Chappe could, with this evidence of operation, to go to Paris to promote his invention.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Church St-Pierre-and-St-Paul

Economy

Famous characters

Claude Chappe, physicist, inventor of the telegraph and the Turn of Cap, born on December 25th, 1763 in Brûlon.

Tourist monuments and places

Museum Claude-Cap
Feudal Mound

Events

Twinning

References

External bonds

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