Ploërdut

Ploërdut ( Pleurdud into Breton, marked) is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany. Its inhabitants name the Ploërdutais and its living Ploërdutaises .

Etymology

Ploërdut comes from plou , primitive parish, and of Iltud Saint.

Geography

Ploërdut is a commune of the center of Brittany, located in the country pourlet . Aër, the main thing tributary on left bank of the It, takes its source there.

History

In 1746, Marion of Faouët and its companion Henry Pezron says Henvigen as three assistants are stopped by the constabulary at the village of Boterff in Ploërdut whereas they had found refuge for the night in the false attic of one of the farms of the village. In fact salt maker travelling, which had passed the evening with Marie Tromel and her band who had not been wary about it, had denounced them. Following this arrest, Hanvigen will be hung whereas Marie Tromel is condemned to be fustigated, naked, of rods by three market days by the crossroads of the town of Rennes.

In 1790 the parish is set up in commune and appendix the truce of Locuon.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Isabelle Louarn is originating in Ploërdut, the following bond makes it possible to know it more http://www.bretagne.com/fr/culture/bretons_du_jour/isabelle_le_louarn

See too

Common of Morbihan

External bonds

the vault of Crénénan
Ploërdut on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ploërdut on the site of INSEE
Ploërdut on the site of Quid
Localization of Ploërdut on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ploërdut on Mapquest

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