Hédé ( Breton Hazhoù in ) is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany. Its inhabitants names the Hédéens .

Geography

The small town of Hédé is located at 24 kilometers in the north of Rennes, with the intersection of the roads active with Saint-Malo and Dol. It does not have that an extent of approximately 23 hectares. Hédé is placed on a plate of the chain of the hills coming from Normandy and which form the beginning of the small reliefs of Brittany. This small town is thus located at the geographical limit of the division of water between the Manche and the ocean, and dominates of surroundings forty meters vast plain which is held below it in the direction of the sea. The immense horizon that it is discovered there extends almost without limits, in the North-East further that Dingé, in the North-West until - beyond Dinan.

History

Hédé was doubtless populated, in the north and the east of the commune, at the time prehistoric. To be convinced some it is enough to refer to the still visible vestiges: the tumulus close to the pond of Bézardière, the alignment megalithic of Brignerault, and also the stones with cups located they in St Symphorien. In the east of the commune, as the last archaeological discoveries of the City-Alley confirm it, we are certain of an occupation of the village at the time Roman. After the setting with bag of the Gaulle and Armorique by the Saxon at the 5th century of our era, the next century was that of the repopulation of Brittany by the people fleeing the invasion of the Angles and Saxon in Great Britain. The clan of the “Haduc” settled at this period with Hédé, towards the locality of the City-Alley. He contributed to enraciner definitively a population, on the commune. The name of Hédé thus comes from “Haduc”, of the name of these Bretons.

With the the Middle Ages, Hédé was a place of war, the seat of a ducal court, then royal. Thirteen Paroisse S concerned its Jurisdiction. Chief town of a subdelegation of the Intendance, Hédé had a community of city and had the honor to appear among the forty two towns of Brittany, which had the right to send deputies to the States of Brittany, to take share with the two orders of the clergy and the bobless, with the management of the businesses of the Province. Hèdé thus had with the Middle Ages its hour of importance and a prevalent situation on the parishes which surrounded it. Then the city partly kept this influence until the Révolution.

Deposed by the revolution, which abruptly destroyed the former political organization and administrative of France, the revolution removed to him from only one blow all the institutions which she enjoyed. It fell then to the row from simple chief town from canton, and preserved only its local significant market. The town of Hédé completely saw disappearing all its influence, when little time after the Revolution, this market left to Rennes. Today there thus does not remain to him more but its old church very badly restored at the end from the XIX|eme sièce, and ruins of its old medieval castle whose imposing mass still resists the attacks of time; this fortress has nothing any more from now on but one function of meeting place at the time of the festivals of summer, or reference mark of the teenagers to each generation, allowing them refonder the world while leaving research their future.

according to Alfred Anne-Duportal - Origins.

Demography

Places and monuments

The castle

The town of Hédé was formed in the shade of its castle, which is quoted as of the 11th century. The site of the primitive castle was in the North-East of the city, on the baillage of Guibarets, with the junction of the roads of Guipel and Combourg; it bore the name of the Mound-Jouhan… A new fortress was built shortly after in the west of the city, on the top of a high headland which goes down to peak towards north, the west and the south, and from where one enjoys a wide sight: this headland could have been used as castellum Roman. The French seized some without resistance in 1488 after their victory to the Bataille Saint-Aubin-of-Cormier the; Mercœur was made main from there in 1597, and Henri IV made it demolish the following year on request of the population. The base of its vast enclosure and the ruins of its massive keep are the only current remainders of this important fortified town.

The church

The parish church completion date of the 11th century or the beginning of the 12th century; it was given promptly by the Duc of Brittany to the Abbaye of Melaine Saint of Rennes which made a Prieuré of it, and it remained priorale until the revolution. It is not known if it were parochial in the beginning, but it was at the 17th century and the 18th century only one truce of Bazouges under Hédé, and was set up in parish in 1792 only. It includes/understands a nave, two collateral, a transept and a semicircular apse. Its western pinion presents a door in semicircular arch, and with double archivolt, bored under a triangular pediment which four imbedded columns support; this door is surmounted by a Romance, and flanked window of four flat buttresses and two windows in loopholes illuminant the collateral ones. One placed outside the door of the font of the 16th century (classified historic buildings), octagonal and granite pedicles, and a similar stoup; the lower part of the font is Romance.

The closed city

The duke François II of Brittany, ordered in 1464, to enclose the town of ramparts but one was satisfied to surround it by ditches in the south and the east, the escarpment of the rock and the castle sufficient protecting it the two other sides. These ditches left the keep, crossed the Main street to approximately 25 meters to the South of the central place, skirted the old Street of the Foundry, close to the site of the Red House and from the old convent of the Ursulines, passed to the east of the street of Chaussix, and reached, in the north of the church and the city the small valleys of Guibarets. These ditches were then abandoned… The dukes Jean IV of Brittany and Jean V of Brittany exempted the city of the tax of the fouages. Hédé was one of the 42 towns of Brittany appointing in the States of Brittany.

Habitats bio

Bazouges-under-Hédé has an ecological allotment (“courtils”) and lodged in September 2006 the forum healthy Habitat and saving energy/the construction of an ecological habitat ().

Personalities related to the commune

Alfred Anne-Duportal

Born in the Main street (current street Jean-Butcher), in Hédé on August 21st, 1837, wire of Alfred Joseph, born in 1804, tax collector of the direct taxation to Hédé (deceased in Hédé in 1852). He marries Marie-Therese Boscher of Ardillets on October 1st, 1878, he will have three children: Ludovic, Alfred - Charles, Marie.

In 1870, he is captain of the mobile guards of Ille-et-Vilaine. He will reside then at Saint-Brieuc, where he will die on March 9th, 1916, at the 79 years age.

Member of the archaeological Company of Ille-et-Vilaine since 1863, it worked there during more than fifty years, until 1914. One finds, at a meeting in 1913, a nice homage, on behalf of his colleagues, for his 50 years of work in this learned society. It published between 1885 and 1915, much of relative texts to its work on Hédé and its area. All the historical matter concerning the town of Hédé will have been treated in its work: origins, castles, the Templiers, the church, the hospital, the convent, schools, the seigniory… The last archaeological discoveries at the Gone City will do nothing but reinforce part of its analyzes.

In 2005, the city gave its name to one of the streets of the city.

Andre Chesnot

Born in Paris on April 18th 1922. A plate is affixed on the house of his/her parents with Hédé. It was decorated on a purely posthumous basis with the medal with Resistance, the Military decoration and the Military Cross with palm. Young patriot engaged in armed resistance, sergeant FTPF of the Victor-Hugo group whose activities were in Paris region (sabotages, derailments of enemy trains, attacks of German convoys…).

It was stopped on October 23rd 1943, by the special Brigade of the General informations of the Police headquarter of Paris, on denunciation of an agent of the Gestapo infiltrated in the rows of its organization. Delivered to the German authorities a few days after its arrest and imprisoned with the prison of Fresnes, there remained four months with the absolute secrecy, before being shot at the same time on March 7th, 1944 with the Mount-Valérien as fifteen comrades. Extract of its last writings: " You can be assured that I will be able to act as a man and French in front of German rifles; all my comrades have moral as a inébranlable as mine ".

Since September 2003, its name is reproduced on the bell of the Mount-Valérien which comprises the 1008 names of resistant identified shot in this tragic place.

Jean Butcher

He was born with Cesson-Sévigné (35) on November 20th 1870. Noticed young person for its drawings, it follows the school of the fine arts of Rennes then that of Paris in the section sculpture where it will teach after the First World War. Its time is shared between Paris and Hédé where it has a workshop. Member of the academy of the fine arts in 1936, it dies on June 17th 1939 and is buried with the cemetery of the east in Rennes. The war memorial, Marianne out of bronze with the town hall as well as a sculpture in the church are its sculptures preserved at Hédé.

Event

• the Festival of Pocket, Festival of theater (official site)

Twinnings

Hédé is twinned since 1991 with Badbergen (Germany), and Wortham (Great Britain).

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