Saint-Coulomb

Saint-Coulomb is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Its inhabitants is called the Colombanais .

Geography

Saint-Coulomb is a borough of Brittany, between Saint-Malo and Cancale. Located along the coasts of the English Channel, this commune is mainly turned towards agriculture.

In spite of its 14,55 km of coasts and four beautiful beaches (the Chevrets , the Dunes of the Port , Roz-Venn and the handle of the Guesclin ), the commune with a rather minor tourist role compared to the great tourist centers which are the cities bordering on Saint-Malo and Cancale. It is however necessary to announce the camp-site of the Guimorais , established in edge of the beach of Chevrets.

History

The parish of Saint-Coulomb, wedged in the évêché of Saint-Malo belonged to the deanery of concerning Bobital évêché of Fraud and was under the term Saint Colomban. Its name derives from its owner who would have unloaded on his banks in the years 580 - 590. Accompanied by several monks, it crossed the Manche and accosted either on the strike of Guesclin, or a few hundred meters more in the west, with the Margot handle. A cross is set up with its memory.

Administration

|- | align=right| since 1981 || || align=center|Jean Mainguené || align=center| UMP || |- | align=right| 1945 || 1981 || align=center|Louis Frémont || align=center| - || |- | align=right| 1935 || 1945 || align=center|Louis Esnoul || align=center| - || |- | align=right| 1922 || 1935 || align=center|Jean Hake || align=center| - ||

Demography

Tourist monuments and places

Castle of the Mound-Jean, 17th century

History of the Mound-Jean

Families which followed one another the Mound-Jean

the family Of Guesclin in XIVe century
the Éon
the Hindré (owners in 1513)
the Grout of Beauvais around 1707
Bertrane Surcouf 1760

Construction

The Mound-Jean is built under a 2 meters high terrace in the West, which corresponds to the site of a fortress of Of Guesclin. In this fortress the troops were confined which supervised the coast of bay of the Mount-Saint-Michel to the Fort the Slat.

The Mound-Jean is an example of the research of the hollows of grounds by the corsairs and the ship-owners of Saint-Malo to install there their country houses to the shelter of the winds of noroît. Thus, only roofs emergent of the fields since the disappearance of the alleys planted at the four cardinal points, rabines.

The Mound-Jean was used as model with the Giclais built 50 years later with Saint-Servan.

Inside, remain a staircase Renaissance with a very beautiful slope out of carved wooden, woodworks, a vast kitchen with monumental furnace, large parts with beams and Gothic carved beams, and of beautiful granite chimneys.

During revolution, military hospital was installed with Mound-Jean, which made it possible the Grout ladies of Beauvais, which had not followed their husband and father in emigration to Jersey, to accommodate the royal agents arriving and leaving for England since the handle Guesclin.

In 1794, the vault of the Trinity was the tomb of the 300 victims of the Carmagnole to Cancale.

During centuries, the old fortress, adapted to its time, its function, it is today to the standards of modern comfort, a harbor preserved in one of the most beautiful areas of France.

The coast, beaches

(see photo at the end of the page)

Four beautiful beaches occupy littoral commune. Of west in is, it acts of:

the beach of Chevrets, bordered by important the campig of Guimorais. The practice of the Naturisme is tolerated in its oriental party.
the Port
Touesse, also called Roz-Venn (of the name of the manor which overhangs it)
the handle of Guesclin, with the Fort of Guesclin on a small island in the east of the beach

Between Chevrets and the beach of the Port, the Point of Meinga is inserted in the sea on 2 km. It makes it possible to offer a superb panorama on the whole of the Côte of Emerald, since the Cape Fréhel until the Cotentin. It is, with the Pointe of Grouin located at Cancale, one of the rare sites of the Coast making it possible to see at the same time three departments: Coast-with Armor, the Ille-et-Vilaine and the Handle.

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The Plessis-Bertrand

The Plessis-Bertrand is an old strong castle of the 13th century. He is located on the road between Saint-Coulomb and Saint-Méloir-of-Waves. He was built in 1259 by Bertrand of Guesclin to replace the old castle of Guesclin. Three turns formerly bore the names of turns of the Eagle, the Captain and Guesclin. He had a Colombier and a private Chapelle. This castle is taken in 1387 by the partisans of Olivier de Clisson in his fight against the duke Jean IV, and in 1589 by the Duc of Mercoeur. The marshal of Brissac the attack for the king in 1597 and 1598: the castle capitulates and it is dismantled by order of Henri IV. The Plessis-Bertrand had formerly a right of High justice.

Personalities related to the commune

Colette (1873 - 1954), novelist.
the family of Bertrand of Guesclin (1320 - 1380).
Léo Shoed (1916 - 1993), which remained with the Fort of Guesclin.
Gilles de Chateaubriand, Sieur of Guerrande, born in Saint-Coulomb in 1570, grandfather with the sixth generation of François-Rene de Chateaubriand.

Photographs

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