La Gouesnière

La Gouesnière
Gouenaer (Breton)
The church in La Gouesnière
Location of La Gouesnière
La Gouesnière
La Gouesnière
Coordinates: 48°36′22″N 1°53′34″W / 48.6061°N 1.8928°W / 48.6061; -1.8928
CountryFrance
RegionBrittany
DepartmentIlle-et-Vilaine
ArrondissementSaint-Malo
CantonSaint-Malo-1
IntercommunalityCA Pays de Saint-Malo
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Joël Hamel[1]
Area
1
8.74 km2 (3.37 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[2]
2,000
 • Density230/km2 (590/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
35122 /35350
Elevation2–47 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

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 669—    
1975 799+2.57%
1982 908+1.84%
1990 942+0.46%
1999 1,068+1.40%
2009 1,646+4.42%
2014 1,759+1.34%
2020 1,968+1.89%
Source: INSEE[3]

Inhabitants of La Gouesnière are called Gouesnériens in French.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
  3. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE