Mauron is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.
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
The playwright Romain Weingarten (1926 - 2006) is buried in Mauron, where it had been withdrawn on the end of his life.
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