Pléneuf-Valley-Andre

Pléneuf-Valley-Andre is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Armor and the area Brittany.

It is known like Seaside resort family , located on the east coast of the Baie of Saint-Brieuc, said Côte of Emerald. Its population goes up to more: 16000 inhabitants during the summer.

It is to 25 km in the east of Saint-Brieuc and to 13 km in the north of Lamballe.

The Valley-Andre

The Valley-Andre is the seaside resort itself created at the end of the 19th century by the progressive construction of villas to the length of a beach of 2,5 km; the main street equal length extending to about fifty meters behind from the dam-walk and accessible in its median part of many trade, a casino and a room of Cinema, a large vault (Notre-Dame Vault created by the nuns of Saint-Quay in 1890), of many grounds of Tennis in the park of Admiralty (2 ha), etc

According to Jules Herbert, the littoral zone in 1860 was deprived of the least dwelling. The Admiral Charner had just bought a first ground in 1853, but it is in Charles Cotard that the creation of the Valley-Andre by the purchase is allotted to this end on May 16th, 1880 of most of the dunes and wet grounds in edge of sea. A first parallel way is open in the dunes. The construction of the villas was encouraged a long time by very reasonable prices; three francs the m ² in 1896!

This first operation was limited to the south, the acquired grounds stopping on the level of the current street of the Gulls. The development of a second section took the relai initiative of Charles Cotard by harmoniously prolonging it to the more broken grounds on the level of the White Murs . Construction in 1894-1895 of the Large Hotel , bearing its name well, is the notable element of this second phase.

principal Leisures

a first casino had been created in 1883 in an appendix of the Hotel of the Beach (Hotel of the Casino). It is on April 22nd, 1934 that the Rotonde opens, the new casino, giving on the dam-walk and proposing in addition to gaming rooms, a track of dance and a restaurant-bar. Its building is overlapping with that of a cinema.

Tennis - tennis played a part during several decades in the attractivity of the station. In first half of the 20th century, several grounds existed in the northern part, below the street Charles de Ganne, attended by the local middle-class woman. Slowly eliminated by the real pressure, the usable airfields gradually in the grounds of Admiralty took the relai to satisfy the public become numerous after the democratization of this sport in the years 1960. With this practical tradition and these possibilities, the Valley-Andre regularly accommodated and always accommodates official tournaments.

nautical Activities. The ports and the beaches allow all the nautical activities of seaside, often under the monitoring of firemen present in three rescue stations. A nautical center ensures the formations necessary and provides material in hiring (catamarans, kayaks, boards with veil).

Geography

The territory of Pléneuf is very diversified:

its frontage maritime comprises two marinas (Dahouët and the port of Piégu), several beaches (great beach of the Valley-Andre or Grève of Saint Symphorien ) and the rock coast including/understanding:

in the west, the point of Watches for , rock coast sheltering the port of Dahouët and two small beaches;
in north, Verdelet , stone fallen from the shoe of Gargantua says the legend, more concretely small island accessible to the low-sea of the important tides, possible Fishing-with-foot in the rocks at the base of the principal rock which is a ornithological Réserve of birds ornithological Réserve Edmond Tranin , interdict of access from September to March;
the point of Pléneuf of which the cliff of culminating Castle-Tanguy with 72 Mr. and whom Verdelet prolongs;
the cliffs of the City Pichard , the coastguard path forming the Walk of Raising and uniting the point of Pléneuf to the beach of the Valleys;
a vast beach extending until Erquy and breaking up into several strikes: the strike of Nantois called beach of the Valleys in its oriental party and most usually attended (rescue station), the strike of Nantois to the restricted direction and on which one sees sometimes the horses of the close horse club, the strike of the City Berneuf ; on the heights a Golf of eighteen holes enjoys from a beautiful point of view;

arable land back-country in the medium of which the borough is held of Pléneuf;

the way of Vauclair connects the center of the borough to the strike of Nantois or beach of the Valleys;
in the west, small valley of the brook of the Flora which is thrown to the sea while leaving the mill with tide of the port of Dahouët.

In 1970 - the commune comprises: 1001 ha of arable lands with 70 exploitations (lower than 50 ha); there were 116 in 1955;

In 1975, one counted: 1512 main homes and: 1553 second home.

History

1783 - Work of déroctage in the entry of the port of Dahouët;
1844 - Opening of the office of the stations ; a Télégraphe Chappe also functioned in the Cape Tanguy (vis-a-vis Verdelet);
1869 - First Regatta S of Pléneuf on August 22nd (other regattas with Dahouët);
1882 - Creation of the Valley-Andre by the engineer Charles Cotard, collaborator of Ferdinand de Lesseps;
1884 - Construction of the vast boarding house, known as the Community , on the initiative of the congregation of Crowned the Hearts of Jesus and Marie which had acquired the grounds the previous year; this building imposing and perfectly located (point of view and animation) must leave room to a center of thalassotherapy as from 2009.
1889 - Installation of the first stone of the church on May 9th (inauguration on August 9th, 1891 by Mgr Fallières);
1896 - Installation of the first stone of the vault (close to the the Community ) on December 21st (devoted on April 11th, 1899 by Mgr Morelle);

First World War: 114 Pléneuviens die in the field of honor;
1922 - From July 11th, 1922 to December 31st, 1948, a railway line serves Pléneuf;
1931 - Construction of the mole of Piégu (completed in 1933);

1954 - the ground and the manor of the Admiral Charner are acquired by the commune ( current Parc of Admiralty ).
1960 - Inauguration on August 21st of the new town hall established in a small castle of style neogothic builds in 1884 not far from the center of the commune, with the material excess intended for the church and of the granite of the large Island;
Versatile room of Guémadeuc
1974 - Creation of the room omnisport of the Sports complex of the Bridge-Gagnoux (6,5 ha) near the borough;
1978 - Creation of the Purification plant;
1980 - Opening of the covered swimming pool Swimming pool of the Mount Colleux beside the municipal camp-site and to 300 meters of the beach;
Spring 2010 - opening envisaged of a Center of thalassotherapy.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the port of Dahouët contributed much to prosperity of Pléneuf; it currently takes part with its inheritance, its some trade and its capacities harbor with the tourist attraction of the commune.
Meurdel La Motte: in the middle of the dwellings of the borough, it consists of an alternation of layers of clay and marine mud, its origin remains obscure. It with the shape of an ellipse, high to the maximum of 8,70 meters for 41 broad.
the mill of the Oro Hillock: windmill maintaining without its wings, visible by far in the southern part of the commune.

Personalities related to the commune

Léopold Victor Charner - Admiral de France, it makes build in 1857, a manor with vault and body of guard on grounds then close to dunes but which will be thereafter in the heart of the Valley-Andre. One of the principal streets bears its name and its inheritance became by purchase in 1954, the park of Admiralty .
the poet Jean Richepin made constuire there the villa the Career and is buried there. The public college of Pléneuf bears its name.
Frederic Henri the Norman one of Lourmel, Brigadier general, fallen in front of Sébastopol on November 5th, 1854, it is buried the next on December 20th in the cemetery of Pléneuf.
Joseph Edouard of the Red Mound, general, born in 1804 in the Bellevue house located in the borough.

Animations

International meetings of Cinema of animation: fourth edition from February 16th to 19th 2006.
Tour de France of the Valley-Andre: sixth edition on August 17th 2008.

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