Ploërmel (Pleurmé or Pleurmaèu in Gallo, Breton Ploermael in ) is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.

Geography

Commune located in the middle of old the Massive Armorican and near the Forest of Brocéliande, on the axis Rennes - Lorient.

History

" (...) I set out again quickly for Ploërmel, of which I admired the charming church. Its forms, though Gothics, draw aside the idea of the meticulous one; but one would need two pages sufficiently to explain my idea or rather my feeling, and nothing would be difficult any more to write (...) Eh well! the church of Ploërmel, compared with the other Gothic buildings, the air neither poor, nor laid." Stendhal

the old city of the Dukes of Brittany.

Ploërmel at the 14th century

• the combat of the Thirty

Halfway between Ploërmel and Josselin was held the famous Combat of the Thirty at the time of the War of succession of Brittany to the Moyen-âge. An obelisk inaugurated in 1828 by the duchess of Berry commemorates the site where on March 26th, 1351 the famous combat of the Thirty took place (with the oak of Semi-way between Josselin and Ploërmel).

• Of 1348 to 1350: the city undergoes the devastations of the Black Death.

• Of 1350 to 1370: Ploërmel is occupied by the English.

the states of Brittany with Ploërmel

• According to a document of the D.R.A.C. (of unknown source) the states of Brittany sat at least thirteen times at Ploërmel , into 1240,1309,1315,1394,1408,1411,1428,1442,1498,1521,1523,1580,1587,1606.

the second world war

• Bombarded on June 12th, 1944: destruction of part of the intramural dwellings

Administration

Demography

Economy

• the city has a delegation of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Morbihan.

Places and monuments

In the old city:

• vestiges of the fortifications of the city set up in 1175 (source: Marquis de Bellevue, Summarized history of Ploërmel , M.A.B., t28, 1909, p.5);
• the cloister of the Carmelite friars (13th century);
• the blue vault Holy-Marie-of the Carmelite friars (19th century).

In the old closed city:

• house of the Marmousets - 1586 which carries in its western part a tower and a section of wall, vestiges of the old fortifications;
• old hotel of the dukes of Brittany - 1150; also carry him of the traces of the old fortifications
• house Bigarré - 1669;
• church Saint-Armel (15th century). Inside, one finds a Voûte out of wood decorated with Sablière S richly carved, canopies (of which the Arbre of Jessé, 1552), ornamentations, the Gisant S of the dukes Jean II and Jean III like that of Philippe de Montauban, chancellor of Anne of Brittany;
• the astronomical clock (1850 - 1855) which is classified Historic building in 1982;
• museum of the Natural science;
• museum Jean-Marie of Carried out.
• Statue out of bronze of the pope Jean-Paul II 9 height meters, located at the center of the city. It was inaugurated on December 10th, 2006 in spite of the opposition of a collective anti-statue which denounces the use of the public money for the transport and the installation of this one. This collective requires the application of the law of 1905: " It is prohibited in the future, to raise or affix any religious sign or emblem on the public monuments or some public site that this soit". The statue was offered by the artist Zurab Tsereteli, who was named citizen of honor of the city.

Local life

Paul Anselin, mayor of Ploërmel (Morbihan), received the price " Orwell Localités" Big Brother Awards 2006, to have installed (or envisaged the installation) of 50 cameras in a commune of 9100 inhabitants in spite of a delinquency zero, and incidentally to have set up a toll-free number to incite with the denouncement and to supervise militant associations.

See too

• Common of Morbihan

Bilbiographic sources

• BEAUDEVILLE (Lord), the legend of Saint Armel , L. Prud-man, Saint-Brieuc, 1855.
• BELLEVUE (Marquis of), Summarized history of Ploërmel , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, pp. 3-9.
• BELLEVUE (Marquis of), Tuault of Bouvrie, last seneshal of the Seneschalsy of Ploërmel, Deputy to the general states , M.A.B., t28, 1909, pp.10-19
• BELLEVUE (Marquis of), Monograph of the church Saint Armel de Ploërmel , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, p.26
• BELLEVUE (Marquis of), Ploërmel and seneschalsy , Campion, Paris, 1915.
• BELLEVUE (Marquis of, the assembly of Saint-Armel with Beaucé , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, pp.135-220
• BERTHOU (count of), Notes of an old man Ploërmelais , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, pp.177-182
• OF the HALGOUËT, Ploërmel, governors, syndics and seneshals , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, pp.56-68
• EALET (J.), Ploërmel, Memory in image , A.Sutton, 1995, p.18
• GILLES (E.), In the middle of Brittany, Pontivy with Locminé, Josselin with Ploërmel , first series, letter of préf. J.M. Bellec, Pontivy, C. Anger, 1912
• HEDE (A.), Ploërmel, with the prize list of the economic growth , drawn from Ploërmel Brocéliande, by Maguil and Bressy, ED. L.M.C. MOSAIC, Paris, 1993, pp.45-48
• LAGNEAU (JF), House of Marmousets , Ploërmel, Morbihan, Ministry for the culture and the francophonie, D.R.A.C., S.D.
• the BOUTEILLER, the assembly of Saint-Armel with Beaucé , M.A.B., t.28, 1909, pp.135-140
• MARMAGNANT (Abbot), History of Ploërmel , Ploërmel, t.I-II, S.D.
• MAUNY (Mr. of), De Josselin with Ploërmel , ED. Ouest-France, Rennes, 1977.
• FOX (Y.), Ploërmel and its church Saint-Armel, Lyon, 1968.
• ROINEL (Helene), quoted Ploërmel ducal and its area , impr. Ploërmelais, Ploërmel, 1987.
• ROPARTZ (S.), History of Ploërmel , coll Monographs of the cities and villages of France, Rasserts-Lorisse, Office of edition of the book of history, 1988

External bonds

• Official site
• Geography of Brittany, gate of the cities and countries Breton - Ploërmel/Ploermael
• Ploërmel on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Ploërmel on the site of INSEE
• Ploërmel on the site of Quid
• Localization of Ploërmel on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Ploërmel on Mapquest
• Polemic around the possible arrival of a giant statue of Jean Paul II in Ploërmel
• Polemic around the installation of vidéos monitoring in Ploermel

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