Plouër-sur-Rance

Plouër-sur-Rance (Breton: Plouhern) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Plouër-sur-Rance Plouhern
Commune
Port Plaisance
Coat of arms
Location of Plouër-sur-Rance
Plouër-sur-Rance Plouër-sur-Rance
Coordinates: 48°31′43″N 2°00′07″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Canton	Pleslin-Trigavou
Intercommunality	Rance-Frémur
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Serge Simon
Area ^1	19.89 km^2 (7.68 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	3,531
• Density	180/km^2 (460/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22213 /22490
Elevation	0–99 m (0–325 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Over twenty years, René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was renovating and organizing the archives of Le Château de Plouër (a private property; 48.52255°N 2.00614°W),[2] which he'd inherited from an uncle, and was nearly finished with the endeavor at the time of his death in 2008.[3]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	2,198	—
1968	2,229	+1.4%
1975	2,113	−5.2%
1982	2,354	+11.4%
1990	2,438	+3.6%
1999	2,733	+12.1%
2008	3,328	+21.8%

Inhabitants of Plouër-sur-Rance are called plouërais in French.

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Chateau pictured.
3. "Madoff Investor’s Suicide Leaves Questions" by Alex Berenson and Matthew Saltmarsh, The New York Times, 2009-01-02, p. B1 NY edition.

External links

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