Mauron

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

Geography

This commune of Morbihan is also bordering on the Coasts of Armor of the Ille-et-Vilaine. Its localization made of it a crossroads on the axes leading of Dinan to Vannes and of Rennes to Quimper.

History

Air archeology testifies to a multitude of Gallic farms, which attest the agricultural richness of the territory, crossed by the Roman Voie Rennes-Quimper.

Saint Judicaël builds a monastery with the Saint-Léry locality there. The first historical quotation of Mauron goes back to 1152.

At the 18th century, a fair took place the day of the Saint Simon, October 28th.

The August 3rd 1944, the tanks of Patton penetrate in Brittany as liberators to gain Brest. The sixth armor-plated division, helped by local resistance, makes jump the German bolt installed in the agglomeration, after three hours of combat

Administration

|- | align=right| March 1989 - 1995 ||Claude Dréano||align=" center" | |||- |- | align=right| March 1995 - 2001 ||Michel Colleu||align=" center" | |||- |- | align=right| March 2001 - 2005 ||Jean-Marie Desgrées of Loû||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| March 2005 -… ||Christian Perrocheau||align=" center" | ||

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

The playwright Romain Weingarten (1926 - 2006) is buried in Mauron, where it had been withdrawn on the end of his life.

See too

Common of Morbihan

Files

Funds Ferron of Quengo, Departmental records of Ille-et-Vilaine, funds 70 J, (0,60 ml), (Quengo in Irodouër): some articles concerning the castle of Ferron in Mauron.

External bonds

cultural Office Country of Mauron in Brocéliande
Town hall of Mauron
the Community of Communes of Mauron in Brocéliande
Mauron on the site of the national geographical Institute
Mauron on the site of INSEE
Mauron on the site of Quid
Localization of Mauron on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mauron on Mapquest

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