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

|mayor = Jacky Chauveau{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}

|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

20082026Jacky Chauveau
19782008Claude Bucher
1906Chemin
1896Beauplet
18801896Foucher
18701880Bachlier
18551870Sesboué
1850Godivier
1840Sesboué
1836Tonnelier
18301836Chamaret
18271830Oger
18211824Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan
18011804Tonnelier
1800Jamin
17911795René 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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{{Mayenne communes}}

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Category:Communes of Mayenne

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