Motorola

Bréhal is a common French, located in the department of the Manche and the area Basse-Normandie. Its inhabitants is called Bréhalais.

It is the chief town of a canton of 14 communes and 9 578 inhabitants, in the district of Coutances.

Seaside resort with the hamlet of Saint-Martin-of-Bréhal.

Geography

History

The site is inhabited since strong a long time and the name of the commune (delivery " Bréà" by the old ones) could be of Celtic origin. The common one was made up at the time revolutionist by the meeting of the parishes of Bréhal and Saint-Martin-the-Old man. Each parish had its church. That of Saint Martin's day, forsaken after fastening is of extremely old origin (IXe century). It keeps a good part of its walls and a double Campanile strong original. The old and extremely beautiful church of Bréhal was destroyed at the XIXe century and was voluntarily replaced by a larger building but without character whose bell-tower does not miss however elegance. With the the Middle Ages, the church of Bréhal depended on the Abbaye of Hambye (high medieval place) and that the monks of the Mount-Saint-Michel exerted also rights, in particular on the marshes. In 1789, Bréhal had a laic suzerain, the Prince of Monaco, heir to the family of Matignon (part of the files of Bréhal is preserved at the Palate of Monaco).

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Ruins of the old church of Saint-Martin-the-Old man (11th-12th century)
Turn of the mill of Hurtrel (in the course of restoration)

Personalities related to the commune

Guy Môquet, resistant, shot to 17 years the October 22nd 1941. One of the streets of the common door its name. His/her father, Prosper Môquet, was born in the common neighbor from Chanteloup and deceased in Bréhal.

In January 1928 the painter - Engraver, aquafortist and Justice of the Peace Edmond-Marie Poullain settles with Bréhal. It will receive in its residence his friends Guillaume Apollinaire, max Jacob, Fernand Fleuret, André Salmon which will come to take refuge there in 1946, safe from irritating red tapes…

See too

Common of the English Channel

External bonds

the site of the town of Bréhal
the blog of Saint-Martin-of-Bréhal
Bréhal on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bréhal on the site of INSEE
Bréhal on the site of Quid
Localization of Bréhal on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bréhal on Mapquest

Bréhal on the GeneaWiki site.

Random links: