La Gouesnière
La Gouesnière
Gouenaer (Breton) | |
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The church in La Gouesnière | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location of La Gouesnière | |
La Gouesnière La Gouesnière | |
| Coordinates: 48°36′22″N 1°53′34″W / 48.6061°N 1.8928°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Ille-et-Vilaine |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Malo |
| Canton | Saint-Malo-1 |
| Intercommunality | CA Pays de Saint-Malo |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Joël Hamel[1] |
Area 1 | 8.74 km2 (3.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 2,021 |
| • Density | 231/km2 (599/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 35122 /35350 |
| Elevation | 2–47 m (6.6–154.2 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Gouesnière (French pronunciation: [la ɡwɛnjɛʁ]; Breton: Gouenaer) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Charles de Gaulle, on a trip to Brittany, stopped in the city on 11 September 1960 before joining Saint-Malo.
La Gouesnière is twinned with Saint-Désert wine village, in the heart of the Burgundy vineyard, quoted in the poem of Aragon, The conscript of the hundred villages, written as an act of intellectual Resistance in a clandestine way in the spring of 1943, during the Second World War.
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 669 | — |
| 1975 | 799 | +2.57% |
| 1982 | 908 | +1.84% |
| 1990 | 942 | +0.46% |
| 1999 | 1,068 | +1.40% |
| 2007 | 1,645 | +5.55% |
| 2012 | 1,678 | +0.40% |
| 2017 | 1,893 | +2.44% |
| 2023 | 2,021 | +1.10% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Inhabitants of La Gouesnière are called Gouesnériens in French.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ^ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to La Gouesnière.
- Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine (in French)