Brézé

Brézé is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Bellevigne-les-Châteaux.[2] The Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle.

See also: Brézé (surname)

Brézé
Part of Bellevigne-les-Châteaux
The town hall in Brézé
Coat of arms
Location of Brézé
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Coordinates: 47°10′19″N 0°03′25″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Saumur
Canton	Doué-la-Fontaine
Commune	Bellevigne-les-Châteaux
Area ^1	20.05 km^2 (7.74 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	1,234
• Density	62/km^2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	49260
Elevation	26–104 m (85–341 ft) (avg. 46 m or 151 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	880	—
1800	978	+11.1%
1806	1,021	+4.4%
1821	1,003	−1.8%
1831	983	−2.0%
1836	964	−1.9%
1841	999	+3.6%
1846	932	−6.7%
1851	936	+0.4%
1856	911	−2.7%
1861	911	+0.0%
1866	869	−4.6%
1872	854	−1.7%
1876	871	+2.0%
1881	878	+0.8%
1886	877	−0.1%
1891	895	+2.1%
1896	865	−3.4%
1901	863	−0.2%
1906	883	+2.3%
1911	862	−2.4%
1921	722	−16.2%
1926	714	−1.1%
1931	695	−2.7%
1936	680	−2.2%
1946	682	+0.3%
1954	748	+9.7%
1962	848	+13.4%
1968	841	−0.8%
1975	877	+4.3%
1982	1,207	+37.6%
1990	1,379	+14.3%
1999	1,300	−5.7%
2006	1,317	+1.3%
2009	1,316	−0.1%

Personalities

• Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, born here in 1628, Princess of Condé

See also

• Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 20 September 2018 (in French)

External links

• Official site