Bouère

Bouère
Commune
The church in Bouère
Bouère
Location within Pays de la Loire region
Bouère
Coordinates: 47°51′50″N 0°28′38″W / 47.8639°N 0.4772°W / 47.8639; -0.4772Coordinates: 47°51′50″N 0°28′38″W / 47.8639°N 0.4772°W / 47.8639; -0.4772
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Mayenne
Arrondissement Château-Gontier
Canton Meslay-du-Maine
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jacky Chauveau
Area1 42.54 km2 (16.42 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 1,027
 • Density 24/km2 (63/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 53036 /53290
Elevation 41–117 m (135–384 ft)
(avg. 81 m or 266 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Bouère is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France.

Geography

Situated 35 km (22 mi) from Laval, 54 km (34 mi) from Angers, and 70 km (43 mi) 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

BeginningEndNameParty
20082014Jacky Chauveau
19782008Claude Bucher
1906Chemin
1896Beauplet
18801896Foucher
18701880Bachlier
18551870Sesboué
1850Godivier
1840Sesboué
1836Tonnelier
18301836Chamaret
18271830Oger
18211824Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan
18011804Tonnelier
1800Jamin
17911795René Sesboué

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962993—    
19681,149+15.7%
19751,030−10.4%
1982911−11.6%
1990857−5.9%
1999907+5.8%
2004921+1.5%
20091,027+11.5%

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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