Paramé

Paramé is an old commune of Ille-et-Vilaine, which amalgamated with Saint-Servan and Saint-Malo in 1967. It is located at the east of Saint Malo intramurally, to which it is connected by the Furrow. Paramé is known for its long beach of almost 2 kilometers usually called beach of Rochebonne.

History

The name of Paramé is old, probably pre-European. In the charters one finds in 1319 " Ecclesia de Passu ramato" and at the XVIIème century " Pasramé". The frequency of stones cut on its beaches attest human settlements at the time prehistoric. Paramé belonged to the field of the old Gallic tribe of Coriosolites (Corseul capital). The arrival of Breton in VIIIe century was the fact of monks come to christianize the pagan area. Few Breton establishments, with only some place names of this origin, such as Limoëlou, are to be counted. The town of Paramé extended until the XVIIIe century on the plate from the current center-borough. The enlarging of the city towards the dammed up zones dates only from the XIXe century.

In the Middle Ages, among the important medieval seigniories of Paramé, let us quote Vausalmon, and the Pinel Bridge. The important field of Plessix Bertrand, whose castle was in Saint-Coulomb, stopped with ear of Hoguette. From this famous seigniory the family comes from the constable Bertrand of Guesclin. Historians allotted the paternity of Jacques Cartier to the town of Paramé.

Fleeing persecutions, English Benedictines settle in Paramé starting from 1611 before joining Saint-Malo. At the XVII and XVIIIe centuries, several military camps were installed there, in order to prevent the English unloadings. From this time, Paramé belonged to the great defense policy of the northern coast of Brittany, with the construction of the fort of Arboulé or Varde. The romanticism must with Large the Beach of Paramé when Chateaubriand went at the height of Varde to dream to with it.

An important British community remained there at the end of the 19th century. From 1880 to 1910, a long dam was built to protect the dunes and to allow their allotment, launching Paramé like Seaside resort with, a few years later, the construction of the Large Hotel (1883) then marine Thermal baths. This dam, broadside of houses of the Beautiful Time, became from now on a attended place of walk. Paramé was a place of engagements between American and German troops in August 1944 during the release of Saint-Malo which the Germans had transformed into fortress.

The last mayors of Paramé were: Mr. Georges Coudray, Mr. Jean Legatellois, Mr. Thurpin, Doctor Jumellais and Mr. Ange Fontan

The old commune of Saint-Ideuc was attached to Paramé as of July 1792.

Places and monuments

Old town hall of Paramé in a granite church of the XVIIIe century.
Extremely and points of Varde, fortification of the XVIIIe century.
Manor of Limoëlou, manor of Jacques Cartier, discoverer of Canada. It died there in 1557.
Parc and castle of the Oaks, gone back to 1709, current music school Claude Debussy.
marine Thermal baths, vast building of the XIXe century giving on the dam.
House of Renan (with being touched the Thermal baths of Paramé).
Rocks carved by the Fouré abbot with the district of Rothéneuf.

External bonds

official site Paramé-Rotheneuf
Paramé (InfoBretagne.com site)

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