Couëron

Couëron ( " Koeron" in Breton) is a common French located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

The common belongs to the historical Brittany, in the Nantes Pays.

Its inhabitants is called Couëronnais and Couëronnaises.

Geography

Couëron is located at 16 km in the west of Nantes.

the communes bordering on Couëron are Saint-Etienne-with-Montluc, Sautron, Saint-Herblain, Indre, Saint-Jean-of-Bushel and the Pilgrim.

Access and transport

Couëron is served by the TAN.

Line 84
Line 91
Line of night J
Line Express' Couëron

Couëron also lays out of a station served by the FOR THE THIRD TIME of the Pays of the Loire.
A vat makes it possible to connect Couëron (the northern Loire, Right Bank) to the Pellerin (the southern Loire, left bank)

Geology

The commune of Couëron is crossed by the furrow of Brittany

Hydrography

the southern part of the common longe the the Loire.
the Marais Audubon covers half of the 4000 hectares of the commune.

History

Couëron was during the years 1990 the city where the Venturi were built (approximately 700).

Industry

There existed in Couëron a Verrerie. It started to function in 1781. King Louis XVI signed the March 31st 1784 the letters patent authorizing it. Some vestiges of this establishment, transformed thereafter into Soap nery, remain in the commune.
Along the edges of the Loire the Company of the foundries and rolling mills of Couëron built in 1861, treated the ore of Plomb of any source and had Laminoir S with Laiton and Cuivre. It will become, with the wire of time, the factory of lead the Old woman about 1935, then factory Pontgibaud , and finally factory Tréfimétaux and which will close its doors in December 1988. The Tour with lead belongs to is complexed industrial.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1790 - 1797 || Charles Leray ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1995 - 2008 || Jean-Pierre Fougerat ||align=" center" |PS ||

Couëron is the second commune of the Nantes agglomeration by its surface.

Directed since 1995 by Jean-Pierre Fougerat and a municipal council of left (PS-PCF-PRG), it adheres in 2001 to the Urban community of Nantes. A group of Vert opposition constitutes the characteristic of this Municipal council.

Jean-Pierre Fougerat, also general adviser of the Canton of Saint-Etienne-to-Montluc since 1998, is vice-president of the Urban community of Nantes.

Twinning

Couëron is twinned with:

Demography

(population without double accounts starting from 1962)
Source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm and http://www.culture.cg44.fr/Archives/fonds/presentationfonds.html

Places and monuments

the Marsh Audubon
the turn with lead

Personalities related to the commune

François II of Brittany, father of famous the Anne of Brittany, last duke of the independent Brittany, died in Couëron the September 9th 1488.

the painter and American Naturalist (but of French origin ), Jean-Jacques Audubon passed part of its childhood to Couëron, in the property which his/her father had acquired before the revolution, with the locality " Gerbetière" in Port-Launay.

the Naturaliste Alcide Dessalines d' Orbigny was born the September 6th 1802 in Couëron.

See too

Internal bonds

Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

Official site of the town hall of Couëron
Couëron on the site of the national geographical Institute
Couëron on the site of INSEE
Couëron on the site of Quid
Localization of Couëron on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Couëron on Mapquest

Simple: Couëron

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