Trébeurden

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

Geography

History

Prehistory

The first traces of occupation go up towards 20000 front J. - C. It remains some tools, of the Silex… Towards 10000 av. J. - C., of the climatic variations give to the coast a very cut out shore, strewn with granitic chaos like the Manor house. During the Mesolithic (10000 - 5000 av. J. - C.), the climate tends to be heated: fauna and the flora change and create new landscapes. The coast, thanks to the discovery of Microlithe S on the island Milliau, seems to become populated little by little. With the Neolithic (5000 - 2000 av. J. - C.), the men become sedentary, build villages, start to practice agriculture, and draw up what one calls of the Menhir S (drawn up stones) and of the Dolmen S (stone tables) still many in the area.

The Roman invasion

The Gallic elite goes until adopting the Roman socio-administrative organization (habits, culture, religion…). The axis of circulation connecting Trébeurden to Pleumeur-Bodou is created. New construction materials, like the Tile or the Cement, will be employed. As of the 3rd century the incursions of the pirates Saxons are done increasingly frequent, that facilitated by the decline of the Roman Empire; pressed peasants, revolted, will depopulate the area.

Breton migrations

The region knows a wave of Breton migrations, 3rd century at the 8th century. Many a Welsh unloads on our coasts, and introduces the Christianisme there. Their presence causes an significant impact in the area: the names of Trébeurden and Milliau originate in Preden and Meilaw, which were the names of two Welsh monks!

Feudality

The secular Church reorganizes. The large parish of Pleumeur grants to Trébeurden its autonomy. Certain new monastic orders, whose notoriety was increasing, exert their influence on Trébeurden (like the Ordre of the Temple, or the Cisterciens which founds in 1130 the Abbaye of Bégard). The monks of Bégard were the principal lords of Trébeurden.

The Revolution

The old company and the Royalty crumble to leave room to the Republic. Jean-Claude Coquart, vice-chancellor of Trébeurden, refuse to lend oath to the Constitution and exile themselves with Jersey. With the French revolution, the requisitions and plunderings were frequent and of many goods belonging to the seigniories were sold.

19th and 20th centuries

A public school is created in 1830. In 1920, the nuns open of it a second, reserved to the young girls. New roads and means of communication established between the various cities of the area will allow to the inhabitants grounds to more and more often go on the coast. Hotels are built, and the arrival of the railroads to Lannion in 1887 supports the arrival of tourism on the coasts.

Trébeurden is classified like tourist resort since June 13rd, 1921.

Administration

Places and monuments

Menhirs

Of " men" , which means " pierre" into Breton, and of " hir" , i.e. " dressée" , the menhirs are by definition of the drawn up stones, of which there remains only one ten with Trébeurden. Some were cut down and employed again, others were destroyed by the father Maunoir, large preacher of the 17th century.

It is noticed that these curious stones are generally set up in same alignment. For which reasons? Various connotations are lent to them. Perhaps religious, the menhirs being related to a worship, or perhaps were used as solar or astronomical indicators.

Shady walks

" Dol" meaning " table" , a " Dolmen" is a table with the stone supports. The shady walks, alignments of several dolmens, are doubtless monuments. They are three in Trébeurden: the first is on the Milliau island, the second with Lan Kerellec (in a private property), and the third, most important, is that of Prajou-Menhir on the road of the island-Large , which would date from the thousand-year-old IIIe front J. - C.

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