Sérent

Sérent is a common French, located in the department of the Morbihan and the area Brittany.

Geography

Sérent is to 30 km in the east of Vannes and to 70 km in the west of Rennes.

Sérent draws its name from the brook in the basin of which it east builds, Sérentin. The first allusion to Sérent date completion of the 10th century in Cartulaire de Redon. This article mentions the grounds of the Bush given to the abbey of Redon by a local lord. Jehan de Sérent, lord of Sérent took part in 1351 in the Combat of the Thirty pennies the orders of Beaumanoir, local leader of Blésistes (started from Charles of Blois claiming with the throne of Duke of Brittany at the time of the war of succession of Brittany). The known commune a history animated at the time of the Revolution where opposition between Chouans and " Bleus" (Republicans) devastated the campaigns. Sérent was then in the middle of the zone controlled by Chouans de Cadoudal to which it provided seems T it men and vivres. At the beginning of the 20th century the industry of the slate quarries developed considerably, leaving still today profondent traces in the solid mass of Pinieux. At the time da the second world war, the maquis of St Marcel (June 18th, 1944), high place of Resistance, was in fact located primarily on the Commune of Sérent around the farm of Nouette. Sérent had thus to deplore the exactions of the occupant (made up Géorgiens soldiers engaged in the German army).

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