Fougerêts

Fougerêts is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.

The name in Breton of the commune is Felgerieg-Al-Lann . (It should be noted that the Breton language was surely never practiced in this common) cf http://www.breizh.net/identity/galleg/espaces_bretons.htm

Its inhabitants name the Fougerêtais and Fougerêtaises .

Geography

Economy

Agricultural sector (breeding and cereals), industrialist (Undertaken Francoise Saget and proximity company Yves Rocher) and artisanal (Eveno roof, joineries, cabinetmaker and project superintendent).

History

The site of the commune is a particular site for the human establishment: slopes directed in the south, presence of a river, the Oust, and of an important forest space.

The oldest traces of human occupations would go up at the time Roman according to the local oral sources (Roman way, villa, tile).

But it is with the Middle Ages that this “parish” takes a relative importance: presence of Templiers to the Bridge of Oust, presence of the family of Rieux, some castles or manors ruraux.

In the middle of the 20th century, this village knows an important rural migration. The population manages to be fixed as from the Seventies thanks to the local company Yves Rocher.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Presence of many old careers of schites blue, in particular with St Jacob and Cross Fork. In the center of the cemetery one finds a “Pieta” classified historic building.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Morbihan

External bonds

a report on the inheritance.
Fougerêts on the site of the national geographical Institute
Fougerêts on the site of INSEE
Fougerêts on the site of Quid
Localization of Fougerêts on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Fougerêts on Mapquest

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