Plussulien

Plussulien is a common department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France.

Geography

Plussulien is a rural district of 22 km ², located at forty kilometers in the south-west of Saint-Brieuc. Its production is primarily agricultural: pigs, milk, eggs, bovines. Its vegetable production is especially intended for animal consumption: corn, corn, colza. It is done a also little vegetable production intended for human consumption: garden peas, beans.

As much rural communes of central Brittany, Plussulien accommodates many English, a score of families approximately, of which four or five are there full-time.

Utility services: town hall, church, vault, school, ground of foot, tennis court, sets of balls, village hall, versatile room.

Trade: bakery, bar, restaurant, (held by English), garden-center, funerary marble-mason's yard.

Craftsmen: mason, roofer, maintenance of green areas, hairdresser, electrician. But there are no more sabot-makers, neither of blacksmith, nor of harness-maker.

History

Plussulien is especially known to have on its territory the site of Quelfennec, which was, if one can say, the technological center of the Neolithic , it is there indeed that were manufactured the stone axes of which one was useful oneself at the time. The axes of Quelfennec, one found some in all Western Europe. Neolithic era, it remains to us also a Menhir (approximately 3 meters), called the menhir of Kerjégu, although it is enough far from Kerjégu: it is in fact in a wood in the north of the Saint-Mayeux-Laniscat road, in the south of the site of the stone axes. age of iron, several undergrounds arrived to us.

At least two were explored by archeologists of trade, with Kervignac, another in Hellès. Others were announced, in Couffignec, and close to the road of Corlay, a little before the road of Kerfanc. According to some, in the Gallic times, the territory of Plussulien was in extreme cases of the territories of Curiosolites, north and the east, of the Vénètes, in the south, and of Osismes, in the west.

Plussulien draws its name from Plou, the primitive parish, and of Julien, or more probably Sullian, legendary saint come from Wales, which chairs also Saint-Sulliac, in Ille-et-Vilaine. The territory of the primitive parish extended, according to some, of Quintin with Gouarec, approximately. Before the Revolution, most of its territory belonged to the family of Rohan. From the religious point of view, it belonged to the diocese of Quimper, from a legal point of view, the seneschalsy of Ploërmel, which itself depended on the présidial of Valves. Jean Tallec produced a history: " A Breton peasant under Louis XIV" where he tells by the menu the history of one of his aïeux which lived in Plussulien.

Up to 1930, in Plussulien, one spoke Breton. It is about 1930, that the families started to educate their French children.

In 1936, the youngest deputy elected with the National Assembly was of Plussulien, it acts of Pierre Sérandour, it was 28 years old.

On the War memorial the, 104 names are registered (yes, you read well, a hundred and four), 93, with the title of war 1914-1918, and 11, with the title of the Second world war.

Electricity was available in any place of Plussulien in 1956.

The High banc Internet is available since spring 2006.

The drainage system of waste water is under development.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Parish church with its Pietà
Vault and cross of Sélédin
Cross of crossroads: cross Mérovingien of Villeneuve-Flying (Villeneuve-Flying, which funny of name, in fact this name is a deformation-translation of Guer nevez Lann: new village of the moors, .vez it lann gave flying, will know why?), cross of Kermenguy, cross of Kergluche, cross of Couffignec, cross of Clandy (1766, it is marked above), cross of Croaz-nevez, close to the garden-center, which must be recent if one trusts his name. Cross of Hellés, it remains nothing any more but the pedestal.

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