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The playwright Romain Weingarten (1926 - 2006) is buried in Mauron, where it had been withdrawn on the end of his life.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