Meucon

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

Geography

History

Meucon comes from Montgonne.

Meucon is a dismemberment of the parish of Valves. Under the Old Mode, Meucon as Plescop belonged to Régaires of the bishop of Valves.

At the 12th century, at the time of the crusades, a maladrery for the leprous ones is installed on the territory of Meucon. One builds there also a vault dedicated to Marie-madeleine. Meucon is set up in parish in 1779 and commune in 1790.

Following names are found: Montgonne, Montcon, Moncon.

Administration

|- | align=right| March 2001 -2008 || Louis-Marie Supiot ||independent|| |- | align=right| ?? - March 2001 || Joseph the Fen ||independent||

Demography

Places and monuments

the church Healthy-Madeleine (1497), altered in 1838. An inscription of the left sand pit of the chorus teaches us that the church was covered with a frame in 1497, time of dom G. of Clérigo, vice-chancellor of Meucon. Successive repairs and transformations entirely denatured this building of the 15th century of which there hardly remains but the frame of the chorus and a window with network blazing with the bedside, masked outside by the sacristy, inside by a large retable of the 17th century. The two blazons which decorate the top of the retable are those Julien Seneschal de Tréduday and of Catherine Gouyon de Vaudurant, his wife (grooms with Meucon, on September 6th, 1646). In the central part of the retable a painting of the Rosary signed Parfait Pobéguin appears and gone back to 1858, and in the side niches the statues of holy Madeleine and a Virgin to the Child are. In 1838, two wings give to the building its current form. The tower goes back to 1888;

the privative vault Saint-Adrien (16th century). It is about a small modern building contiguous to the presbytery. Its door in handle of basket is decorated mouldings and date completion of the 16th century;

the old St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre vault (), located at the village of Cranhuac (see Large-Field);

the martyrdom (1787), certainly restored. It carries the date of 1787. The cross rests on a circular barrel which ends in a capital decorated with sheets of oak. This cross is decorated of a Christ crucifié and, with the back, of Pietà;

the cross of Guern (1899). They are a cross monolith to the short arms and legs;

the martyrdom located at Norbrat. On the openwork panel a Christ partly amputee is reproduced;

the well of Norbrat;

the well of Cadual (1812);

the laundrette of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Drained, there remains about it only some stones;

houses of Norbrat;

the baker's oven of Cranuhac or Cranhuac;

the fortified camp from the Romans, located close to the hamlet of Guernevé;

the Gallic stele (age of iron), located close to the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre vault;

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Morbihan

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Meucon
Meucon on the site of the national geographical Institute
Meucon on the site of INSEE
Meucon on the site of Quid
Localization of Meucon on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Meucon on Mapquest

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