the Board ( " Plaunch" in Gallo/Poitevin) is a common French, located in the department of the Loire-Atlantique and the area Pays of the Loire.

The inhabitants of the commune name the Planchots and Planchottes .

Geography

The Board is located between the highway Nantes Bordeaux and the D937 secondary road at 30 km at the south of Nantes. It belongs to the Communauté of communes of the valley of Clisson. The river " The Ognon " cross the commune what gives him this typical greenery.

A regular connection of bus connects the Board with the Roche-sur-Yon and Nantes, 3 times per day: morning, midday and evening.

History

It is not known if this name comes to him from the broad board which made it possible its inhabitants to cross the Ognon, or from its flat territory “like a board”.

In the first centuries of our era, the Romans were established in the area and built a way which connected Nantes to Saintes (of which there remains the way marking the limit with the commune of Remouillé). Later, of the tradesmen were established to with it. Indeed, the borough of Vieillevigne whose Board constituted a hamlet, belonged to the common Marches avantagères of Brittany and of the Poitou, which made it possible its inhabitants to carry out transactions from one province to another without paying rights. This privilege lasted until with the Révolution of 1789.

A parish is created in 1837, and the corresponding commune is created in 1855.

Blasonnement

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

• Common of the Loire-Atlantique

External bonds

• municipal site

• the Board on the site of the national geographical Institute
• the Board on the site of INSEE
• Localization of the Board on a chart of France
• Plane of the Board on Mapquest

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