Plélan-the-Large

Plélan-the-Large is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Plélan is located in edge is Forêt of Paimpont known as of Brocéliande on the four-ways of Rennes to Lorient. It is at equal distance from the Atlantique and of the Manche (sea), is approximately 80 km.

Economy

More than 80 tradesmen or craftsmen exert on the commune. A market is held every Sunday morning.

Plélan has two singular equipment for a modest commune: a Cycle-racing track and a Cinema ( Art and tests ). A Médiathèque was created towards 2000. One also finds a center sociocultural (35 associations), a Old people's home, an inter-commune music school.

A Community zone of activities of 9 ha is in the course of marketing.

History

They are the monks of the Abbaye Saint-Melaine of Rennes who built religious buildings with the Ford close to the oratory which had been given to them by Solomon, king of the County of Porhoët. The name of the parish thus appears as of 843 in the Cartulaire de Redon; it means " the parish of the monastère" into Breton ( plou-lan ).
Of the low-furnaces of difficult dating was found on north-western bank of the pond of Perray.
Until the French revolution, existed in the south of the commune a kind of republic form of autonomy granted to the inhabitants of this sector who had allowed the repurchase of their lord retained by brigands in Italy. This " republic of Thélin" always the pace of a small borough built around its church has. Throughout the 19th century, the erection of the section of Thélin into common was in question, the inhabitants of the section being opposed to those of the borough.
Two insermentés priests hid during the Terreur with the farm of the Key; they are probably at the origin of the clandestine registers of catholicity held during these years.
the current borough was constituted only rather tardily by gradually supplanting the village of the established Ford of long time in the small valley located in against-low and nearer of the forest and the forging mills.
Two Foire S was held in Plélan: with the Holy Yves the May 19th and the Day of dead the the November 2nd.
the construction of the new church become towards 1850 too small mark the beginning of the decline of the commune in term of many inhabitants and partially of to the loss of profitability of the Iron S produced by the forging mills.
Plélan is named Plélan-the-Large since the order in Council of 1920.

The Ford

The village of the Ford is the place of the primitive parish made up around Mound-Solomon where with the Middle Ages the castle of Judicaël rose, also occupied by the king Solomon. One can always discover the vestiges of the feudal Motte, platform circular 2,2 m height, 58 m diameter at his base, surrounded by a ditch of ten meters width and partially filled. The ditch merged probably more or less according to the season with the close marshy ground; it could be flooded by a brook coming from the pond of Glyorels and the pond from Not-of-Houx, joining the level of the mill. The name of the village of Pleasure located at approximately 300 m would come from the rest that would have taken there the king in the moments of calm, with the assumption of an underground connecting the two sites and being prolonged towards the current borough (an excavation would have opened in a cattle shed in Ruisselais at the 19th century).

Before its displacement in the borough of Plélan in the middle of the 19th century, the market, " one of the more considérables" , was held in this village Saturday morning. As the meetings were the occasion of drinkings, one could say: “This place is all in cabarets; there is not an honest house” Benefitting from the multitude, the jurisdictions of Brécilien (ordinary and water-and-forests) and of Plélan had taken the practice to hold their audiences to with it at the same moment. For 1767, Guillotin de Corson even affirms that eight jurisdictions functioned in this place. The audience and the prison were on the territory of Paimpont, whereas the Pilori or post of justice was drawn up on the other side of the brook in Plélan, the spectacle of the torture victims having to inform the public. Brécilien side, existed also a Auberge (with the sign of the Red Cross) and a factory of hats. A Chapelle was also at the disposal of the merchants and barges to collect the offerings and other expressions of Piété.

The owner of the seigniory of Plélan, Jean-François de Montigny, obtained on February 11th 1778 Letters patent authorizing it to move the markets and fairs on the moor of Trégu, in the North-East of the borough, on a ground undoubtedly healthier in particular the winter when water tended to accumulate and to make the ways impracticable. But, a lawsuit opened with the Parlement of Brittany following the protest of the owners of the forest and the jurisdiction of Brécilien (request of March 6th, 1780), protest supported by the inhabitants of the village; all and sundry contradicting the arguments of the marquis de Montigny with the concern of preventing the ruin of the village or the reduction in their influence and rights associated. For the rigor, they was appropriate could one move the market with some steps from there on “the place of the castles where the old fairs are held, that is to say on the place of the Mounds in top of which is the royal way”.

Among the arguments of the opponents who finally had win, one notes that “the road would be double for the multitude of people attached to the exploitation of the forging mills”.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Saint-Pierre Church built starting from 1850 in the place of a church of the 13th century whose only the vault Holy-Anne remains. Northern side, a tower going back to 1620 plays the part of bell-tower.
Town hall arranged in the old markets.
Hotel trade of the Fleur de Lys.
Fountain of Saint-Hackney carriage, owner of the farmers, at the beginning of the road of Thélin, beside an old cross carrying " 1506 Thoumas Dannet".
communal Pond of Trégu near the Four ways ; pond of Chèze a little further
Castle from the Bridge-Mussard.
Pond of Trécouët; pond of Glyorels.
Pond of Perray flowing in the pond of the Forging mills; pond of 13 hectares but low depth, its bank is still has the pace of a beach (it was held to with it a village fair until worms 1965 (bases of a still visible horse-gear close to the outfall))
the Forging mills of Paimpont of which a part is on the territory of Plélan (old canteen of the workmen become gourmet restaurant, house of Évêché)… oak of Anatole Braz…
on May 3rd, 1794, the west of the commune was the theater of an episode of the Guerre of the Vendée: the royalist army ordered by Puisey attacked with the improvist the republican army which crossed without special precaution the small valley separating Plélan de Beignon (" Bridge of Secret") ; the strength of the attack forced the 3000 infantrymen and the 90 riders to be folded up on the heights (village of the Old woman-City).
Of the military operations was ordered by the duke of Nemours in September 1843 in the moors of Thélin. The commander of the camp established in this place, the Count de Rumigny, would have killed himself by throwing his horse in the vacuum; if the places make this event plausible, that attested forever differently than by the date of 1843 qu ' one finds engraved in the Schiste of the rocks known as of Ruminy (!).
In this escarpé site, a former director of the Forges of Paimpont was wounded very seriously while wanting to prove the possibility of flying like a bird by beating arms after being coated feathers; he died a few days afterwards.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Forest of Paimpont
Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

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