Liffré

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{{Infobox French commune

|name = Liffré

|native name = {{native name|mis|paren=no|Lifrei}} (Gallo)
{{native name|br|Liverieg}}

|commune status = Commune

|image = Liffré-rue-principale.jpg

|caption = The town centre of Liffré

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Liffré (Ille-et-Vilaine).svg

|coordinates = {{coord|48.2142|-1.5067|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|arrondissement = Rennes

|canton = Liffré

|INSEE = 35152

|postal code = 35340

|mayor = Guillaume Bégué{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Liffré-Cormier

|elevation m = 95

|elevation min m = 40

|elevation max m = 113

|area km2 = 66.86

|demonym = Liffréens, Liffréennes

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Liffré ({{IPA|fr|lifʁe}}; {{Langx|br|Liverieg}}; Gallo: Lifrei) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is in the center of the region.

Politics and administration

{{incomplete list|date=April 2022}}

class="wikitable"

|+List of successive mayors of Liffré since 1945

! colspan="2" |In office

!Name

!Party

!Capacity

!Ref.

?

|?

|Émile Planty

|SFIO

|

|

May 1953

|March 1965

|Jean Vincent

|UNR

|General councillor of the Canton of Liffré (1961—1965)

|

March 1965

|March 1971

|Jean Touffet

|

|

|

March 1971

|March 1983

|Louis Lorant

|DVD

|Substitute Deputy for Jacques Cressard (1973—1978)

|

March 1983

|March 2008

|Clément Théaudin

|PS

|Deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine's 1st constituency (1981—1986)

Deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine (1986—1988)

General councillor of the Canton of Liffré (1978—1992 then 1998–2015)

President of the CC du Pays de Liffré (2000—2008)

|

March 2008

|22 June 2017

(Resigned)

|Loïg Chesnais-Girard

|PS

|Regional councillor of Brittany (2010—)

President of the Regional Council of Brittany (2017—present)

President of the Liffré-Cormier Communauté (2008—2020)

|{{Cite news|date=16 March 2008|title=Les maires élus du 1er tour|pages=10–11|work=Dimanche Ouest-France|issue=534|url=|issn=1285-7688}}

23 September 2017

|Incumbent

|Guillaume Bégué

|PS

|Vice-president of the Liffré-Cormier Communauté (2016—present)

Interim mayor between 22 June and 23 September 2017.

|{{Cite web|date=28 September 2017|title=Guillaume Bégué est le nouveau maire de Liffré|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/ille-et-vilaine/guillaume-begue-est-le-nouveau-maire-de-liffre-5281608|website=Ouest-France}}

Population

Inhabitants of Liffré are called Liffréens in French.

{{Historical populations

|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-35152#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

|percentages = pagr

|align = none

|1968 |2322

|1975 |3237

|1982 |4205

|1990 |5659

|1999 |6454

|2007 |6611

|2012 |7041

|2017 |7609

}}

Twin towns

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}

Liffré is twinned with:

  • {{flagicon|UK}} Wendover, England{{cite web|title=British towns twinned with French towns|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|archive-date=2013-07-05|access-date=2013-07-11|work=Archant Community Media Ltd}}
  • {{flagicon|BFA}} Piéla, Burkina Faso
  • {{flagicon|ESP}} Beniel, Spain

See also

References

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