Combourg

Combourg ( Conborn in Gallo, Breton Komborn in ), is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany. It owes its nickname of “cradle of the romanticism” with the writer François-Rene de Chateaubriand who passed part of his youth there.

Its inhabitants name the " Combourgeois " or " Combournais " (rare). Combourg draws its name from the Gallic, Latin or Breton words " combore" or " combure" meaning the valley of the limit and pointing out the border of the dioceses of Fraud-of-Brittany and Saint-Malo.

Geography

Town of High-Brittany, it is also on the road of the Doors of Brittany. Combourg is located between Rennes and Saint-Malo, in Ille-et-Vilaine.

Distances

Combourg is with:
  • 386 km of Paris
  • 39 km of Rennes
  • 36 km of Saint-Malo
  • 83 km of Saint-Brieuc

History

Antiquity and the Middle Ages

As of the Gallo-Roman time, Combourg occupied a strategic position and was a village with the intense artisanal activity. Until the year thousand, the city undergoes the attacks dévasteurs of the Viking S.

The seigniory of Combourg was created by the archbishop of Fraud Ginguéné or Junkéné in favor of his/her younger brother Riwallon de Dol. The archbishop who wished to give to his church a laic guard while equipping his family, as was then the use, made build with 4 miles of Fraud the castle of Combourg which he entrusted to his brother with vast domains under his mobility, that is to say about fifteen parishes and twelve strongholds of knighthood. On the other hand it imposed to him and with its successors the obligation to defend the grounds and subjects of the church of Fraud and to order its ost. For this reason the lord de Combourg took in his Chartres the title to mean Sancti Samsonis ( color-bearer of Saint Samson ). The seigniory of Combourg remained in possession of the descendants of Riwallon until the death of Yseult de Dol in 1197. However the son whom it had had of his union with Harsculf de Soligné (death also in 1197) raised the name of his mother while becoming Jean III of Fraud.

The seigniory of Combourg was then transmitted by heritage to the families: from Châteaugiron known as of Malestroit of Rieux, Of Châtel, Montjean, Acigné and finally of Coëtquen the latter obtained that the seigniory is set up in County in 1575. The ultimate heiress of this family sold the county to the parents of Chateaubriant by contract of the May 3rd 1761.

See also: List of the lords of Combourg

Chateaubriant and Combourg

Rene-Auguste de Châteaubriand and his wife Apolline de Bédée, the parents of the writer, acquired the county of Combourg the May 3rd 1761. François-Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) there spent 2 years of its youth. “It is in the wood of Combourg that I became what I am” will write T it in its Mémoires of in addition to-fall .

19th century

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the main activities of Combourg were the butter factory, the cheese dairy, the manufacture of tarpaulins in hemp, of fabrics of flax, the size and the polishing of the granite, the tannery and the brickyard.

2nde world war

on August 2nd 1944 , Combourg was released by the American soldiers. Here what Ouest-France said on this release.

20th century

Economy

  • Seat of AES Laboratories.
  • Agriculture: mixed-farming, breeding, milk.
  • Tourism: castle of Combourg (36 057 visitors).
  • Printing works S.A. Atimco.
  • Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of the Country of Saint-Malo.

Administration

  • Space Undertaken
  • House of the use
  • departmental Laboratory of analyzes (LDA)

Political life

Mayors

Andre Belliard (June 25th 1932 with Borough-Achard (the Eure) - 2005 with the Senegal), general doctor, member of RPR, was city council man of 1965 with 1995, then mayor of 1971 with 1977 and again then of 1983 with 1995, general adviser of 1967 with 1998, regional adviser of 1974 with 1998, president of Sivom of the cantons of Combourg and Tinténiac of 1979 with 1995, knight of the academic palms in 1976.

Saved Marie-Therese, born in 1950, commercial in Combourg, is adviser general PS of the canton of Combourg since 1998 and was mayor of the town of 1995 with 2001, beaten by related UMP, Joel Besco, veterinary surgeon. City council man since 1983, he is mayor since 2001 and vice-president of the Communauté of communes of the Country of Brittany Romantique.

Municipal council of the young people

  • Brings together young people combourgeois from 9 to 14 years elected for two years and eager to be implied in the life citizen. The municipal council of the young people, elected official on November 27th, 2004, is composed of 4 girls and 5 boys.

Twinnings

: school exchange

Elections

Currency

Currency of Chateaubriant and Combourg
  • " My blood dyed the banner of France"

Demography

Pattern of the settlement by GCV

  • Farmers: 8,8% (2,4%)
  • Craftsmen, tradesmen, heads of undertaking: 8,4% (6,4%)
  • Frameworks, intellectual professions: 6% (12,1%)
  • Intermediate occupations: 17,5% (22,1%)
  • Employed: 26,5% (29,9%)
  • Working: 32,7% (27,1%)

Between brackets, national average.

Structure of the population

  • Men: 48,4% (48,6%)
  • Women: 51,6% (51,4%)

Between brackets, national average.

Population pyramid

  • More than 75 years: 11,4% (7,7%)
  • 60-74 years: 17,4% (13,6%)
  • 40-59 years: 24,3% (26%)
  • 20-39 years: 22,9% (28,1%)
  • 0-19 years: 23,9% (24,6%)

Between brackets, national average.

Education

  • Two nursery schools and primary: elementary school (public)/school Holy-Anne (private)
  • Two colleges: Chateaubriant (public)/Saint-Gilduin (private)
  • a college: Chateaubriant (public)

Health

  • Clinical Saint-Joseph

Places and monuments

Historical buildings

  • Castle of Combourg, 11th century-15th century, Chateaubriand passed part of its childhood there.
  • Statue of Chateaubriant, carved in 1930 by Alphonse Terroir (with the back of the statue, one can see a engraved oil lamp and stars).
  • House of Hung, 16th century, which owes its name with a tragic legend.
  • Hotel of Trémaudan, or house of the Lantern, 16th century.
  • Relay of the Princes, old relay of station become inn, 16th century.
  • Castle of the Bottle-factory, 19th century.

Religious buildings

  • Parish church Notre-Dame, 1859, built within Charles Langlois, then on those of Arthur Regnault, restoration of the stained glasses in 2007
  • Abbey, former priory of Benedictines, 16th century
  • Many crosses

Natural heritage

  • Quiet Lake: 22 hectares
  • Étang of Maffins

Events

  • May: Fair of mid-May
  • July: Festival Astonishing romantic
  • July: Treads combourgeoises: semi-marathon Fraud-of-Brittany - Combourg
  • August: Festival of the Lantern
  • September: Large Fair of Angevine
  • October: Price Combourg
  • Market day: Monday

See too

¹ Joel Besco is related UMP on the official site of the ministry for the Interior

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