Bouère
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = Bouère
|commune status = Commune
|image = Eglise de Bouère.JPG
|caption = The church in Bouère
|image coat of arms =
|arrondissement = Château-Gontier
|canton = Meslay-du-Maine
|term = 2020–2026
|coordinates = {{coord|47.8639|-0.4772|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 81
|elevation min m = 41
|elevation max m = 117
|area km2 = 42.54
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
|INSEE = 53036
|postal code = 53290
}}
Bouère ({{IPA|fr|bwɛʁ}}) is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France.
Geography
Situated {{convert|35|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Laval, {{convert|54|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Angers, and {{convert|70|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Le Mans in the southeast of today's Mayenne department, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of Anjou.
Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris.
Administration
List of successive mayors
class="wikitable"
!Beginning !! End !! Name | ||
2008 | 2026 | Jacky Chauveau |
1978 | 2008 | Claude Bucher |
1906 | Chemin | |
1896 | Beauplet | |
1880 | 1896 | Foucher |
1870 | 1880 | Bachlier |
1855 | 1870 | Sesboué |
1850 | Godivier | |
1840 | Sesboué | |
1836 | Tonnelier | |
1830 | 1836 | Chamaret |
1827 | 1830 | Oger |
1821 | 1824 | Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan |
1801 | 1804 | Tonnelier |
1800 | Jamin | |
1791 | 1795 | René Sesboué |
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-53036#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |1149
|1975 |1030
|1982 |911
|1990 |857
|1999 |907
|2009 |1027
|2014 |1078
|2020 |1062
}}
Sights
- Romanesque church (11th/12th century restored in the 19th century)
- Communal cemetery (registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings)
- Votive vault 1871
- Castle of Bois-Jourdan 16th/17th century and dependences
- Castle of the Vézousière 18th century
- Castle of Rochers 19th century
- Castle of the Sevaudière 19th century
- Castle of Daviers 19th century
Personalities
See also
References
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{{commons category|Bouère}}
{{Mayenne communes}}
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{{Mayenne-geo-stub}}