Cesson-Sévigné

Geography

Bordering on Rennes, chief town of Brittany, it is crossed by the Vilaine on 11 km.

Expanding recent and fast, Cesson-Sévigné became fourth city of Ille-et-Vilaine.

Its vitality comes from its zone of activity which gathers most of the technopolis Rennes Atalante, specialized in the high technology of the Télécommunications, at the origin in particular of the Minitel. It is a basin of gravitational employment and under development full in the agglomeration of Rennes. Cesson-Sévigné accommodates very important research centres of large companies, France Telecom, Thomson, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Canon… around of which are grafted a multitude of services companies data processing.

History

In 1921, the noun of the commune of Cesson was modified in Cesson-Sévigné. Sévigné is an old stronghold located on the Unpleasant one, upstream of Cesson, towards the east. This stronghold is the cradle of the famous family of Sévigné, whose Madam de Sévigné is most known.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the Museum of the Transmissions Ferrié Space which opened in 2004 near ESAT in the technopolis of Rennes Atalante.
the manor of Bourgchevreuil, in the center of the commune, its park is classified DIREN.
the manor of Chalotais (current town hall), its park is classified DIREN.
the manor of Seized up
Manor of Champagne, in front of the college, preserved its medieval door and its plan of origin (disappeared vault).
the course of Unpleasant, in the past named: " Large Rue" , " street principale" or " street of Mairie" , the principal artery of the Cesson old man constitutes. It is bordered of a whole of simple houses or with shop, out of stone, in an alignment (Rennes side) and a prospect or throttling (side church) rather remarkable. Formerly prone to the mocking remark in these " terms; Cesson-the-baths of pieds" because of the current being transported in the street during the floods.
" Château" (19th century), manor, house and barn of Fresnerie (16th century), in full historical center, preserve a tower of staircase at the back with windows with grid.
Old town hall and school (architectural good example of), course of the Unpleasant one.
House of 13 cours de la Vilaine with door and window of trade (19th century) and gerbière with pulley (inventory of DRAC).
Church, built in 1902.
Presbytery and on its left old house known as of the black and white which drinks
Gaudaie, manor.
Castle of Cucé, classified historic building with a perimeter of protection, it is located after Menouriais, at the border with Chantepie.
the natural site of Unpleasant and the old bridges. Vis-a-vis the martyrdom, it has been necessary to announce the existence of a fourth bridge, of less scale, occulted by a fill for a few years.
the site and park of Monniais with its middle-class house of English style called the castle and further, along the road, the old manor. This site was used as stone quarry.
ponds of Dézerseul, natural site created by the commune in 1973, for relaxation and the leisures , composed of 40 hectares in edge of Unpleasant for: to give again in Cesson its character of pastoral appointment of before-guerre".

the port of Cesson, while leaving the course Unpleasant, with the intersection with the street of Rennes, it is opposite. Its apogee seems to be at the beginning of the 18th century, with the transport of the stone extracted from Cesson, for the rebuilding of Rennes. Closed down for a long time and forgotten population, it does not preserve of them less beautiful masonries.

Of Fresnerie (street and park) to Unpleasant, while passing by the course of Unpleasant, the walker can discover, with fallen the night, the flight of the bats. Several species are concentrated there like the murine of Daubenton, the pipistrelles communes and of Kulh. All these species, like their places of life, are protected at the French and European levels. They nest in the stone walls and under the roofs of the old houses, drive out around the trees and on the Unpleasant one.

Personalities related to the commune

Born in Cesson-Sévigné with the locality " Vallée" , Jean Boucher shared his life between Paris and Hédé. Its work is visible on the whole of the national territory. The principal dominant one of the collection preserved at Cesson-Sévigné relates to its iconographic collections which represent several hundreds of parts of documents, drawings, postcards, correspondences, photographs which testify to Jean Boucher and his work. Today, this funds is the subject from now on of a vast campaign of digitalization and is accessible to all remotely via Internet.

Trade

Twinnings

References

Cesson Sévigné is also a sporting city with many sports to be practiced downtown. In the middle same of the city, one finds the water running stage which accommodates many regional and international competitions of Canoe-kayak as well as training of the team of France. Moreover the town of Cesson will have very soon a pole France, place of official drive of the national team.

Cesson is also the first club of Handball of Brittany with its team in Division 2.

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Site of the city
Cesson-Sévigné on the site of the national geographical Institute
Cesson-Sévigné on the site of preliminary INSEE
Inventory of the DRAC
Localization of Cesson-Sévigné on a chart of France

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