Corseul

Corseul (Breton: Kersaout, Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Corseul Kersaout
Commune
Roman ruins
Coat of arms
Location of Corseul
Corseul Corseul
Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Canton	Plancoët
Intercommunality	Plancoët Val d'Arguenon
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Alain Jan
Area ^1	41.74 km^2 (16.12 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	2,184
• Density	52/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22048 /22130
Elevation	13–126 m (43–413 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.[2]

History

Corseul was called Fanum Martis ("Temple of Mars") in Latin and was the capital of the Gallo-Roman province of Coriosolites. It was founded in 10 BC.[3] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae. This name change occurred as the Roman Empire weakened and paralleled a revival of the ancient Gallic gods in local religious sculptures and dedicatory inscriptions.[4]

Some 1.5 kilometres to the southeast, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.[5]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,830	—
1968	1,925	+5.2%
1975	1,955	+1.6%
1982	2,022	+3.4%
1990	1,987	−1.7%
1999	1,977	−0.5%
2008	1,975	−0.1%

Inhabitants of Corseul are called coriosolites or curiosolites in French.

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. "Official site" (in French). Commune of Corseul. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
3. H Kérébel, "Évolution d'un chef-lieu de cité au cours de la première moitié du Ier siècle: Corseul (Fanum Martis), capitale de la cité des Coriosolites" Les villes de la Gaulle lyonnaise, 1996, reports on excavations since 1984; some finds from the site are conserved in the town museum and in the Musée Archéologique at Rennes.
4. "Corseul, capitale romaine des Coriosolites" (in French). armorance.free.fr. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
5. Louis Gouipeau, "La datation archéomagnétique du temple du Haut-Bécherel à Corseul", Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest 1984.1:pp84-88.

External links

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

Temple of Mars, at Haut-Bécherel to the southeast

Map of Roman Brittany