Bouère
Bouère is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France.
Geography
Situated from Laval, from Angers, and from Le Mans in the southeast of today's Mayenne department, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of Anjou.Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris.
Administration
List of successive mayorsBeginning | End | Name | Party |
2008 | 2014 | Jacky Chauveau | |
1978 | 2008 | Claude Bucher | |
1906 | Chemin | ||
1896 | Beauplet | ||
1880 | 1896 | Foucher | |
1870 | 1880 | Bachlier | |
1855 | 1870 | Sesboué | |
1850 | Godivier | ||
1840 | Sesboué | ||
1836 | Tonnelier | ||
1830 | 1836 | Chamaret | |
1827 | 1830 | Oger | |
1821 | 1824 | Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan | |
1801 | 1804 | Tonnelier | |
1800 | Jamin | ||
1791 | 1795 | René Sesboué |
Population
Sights
- Romanesque church
- Communal cemetery
- Votive vault 1871
- Castle of Bois-Jourdan 16th/17th century and dependences
- Castle of the Vézousière 18th century
- Castle of Rochers 19th century
- Castle of the Sevaudière 19th century
- Castle of Daviers 19th century
Personalities
- Urbain Grandier