Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier

Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier Grand'Saent Aubin (Gallo) Sant-Albin-an-Hiliber (Breton)
Commune
The church of Saint-Aubin, in Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier
(2020–2026)		Jérôme Bégasse[1]
Area 1	27.41 km2 (10.58 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	4,098
• Density	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35253 /35140
Elevation	54–123 m (177–404 ft) (avg. 117 m or 384 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿obɛ̃ dy kɔʁmje]; Gallo: Grand'Saent Aubin, Breton: Sant-Albin-an-Hiliber) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Geography

Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier is located at 29 km (18 mi) northeast of Rennes and 49 km (30 mi) south of Mont Saint-Michel.

The bordering communes are Mézières-sur-Couesnon, Saint-Jean-sur-Couesnon, Saint-Georges-de-Chesné, Mecé, Livré-sur-Changeon, Liffré, Gosné, Ercé-près-Liffré, and Gahard.

History

The area is most notable for the 1488 Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier, the decisive conflict of the guerre folle between the Duke of Brittany, at the time still independent, and the French king. The Duke Of Brittany Francois II was openly pro England and sought to resist the King of France’s repeated attempts to put an end to Brittany’s independence. Brittany’s forces were defeated, paving the way for the subsequent integration of Brittany into the French kingdom (through the forced marriage of Duchess Anne to the king of France).

The area was also the site of conflict during the Chouannerie, anti-Revolutionary insurrections in the 1790s.

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier are called saint-aubinais in French.

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

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