Plonévez-of-Faou the is a common department of the Finistere, in the area Brittany, in France.

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History

This commune is known for facts related to the Révolte of the Red Bonnets in 1675.

Moreover this city the first Breton maquis at the time of the Second world war sheltered.

Births

Rene CADIOU, oldest son of Yves and Marie Anne, from Languily, in Plonevez of Faou, were born on Thursday, August 26, 1926. To the incentive of his uncle Louis CADIOU, war veteran of the first war, it enters the maquis at 15 years, then integrates future Division De Lattre. In 1944, at the conclusion of the countryside of Italy, Division passes Piedmont and goes up the valley of the Rhone to release Strasbourg. With the demobilization, Rene engages within same division for Indo-China, or he dies on Wednesday, February 20, 1946 (Caman, province of Cochinchine, shot down by a sniper.

Death

See too

More:

• the small train Rosporden-Plouescat , Annick Fleitour, Editions Undertow, Quimper, 2001. small railway line to narrow gauge railway which served Plonévez-of-Faou 1912 to 1935

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