Ingrandes-Le Fresne sur Loire (; br, Ingrandes-Runonn) is a

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in the Maine-et-Loire department of western

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. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Ingrandes and

Le Fresne-sur-Loire Le Fresne-sur-Loire (, literally ''Le Fresne on Loire''; br, Runonn) is a former commune of the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Ingrandes-le-Fresne-sur-Loire, and became pa ...

(previously part of the Loire-Atlantique department).The French spelling rules on municipalities require all parts of a name to be joined by hyphens, however, in Art.2 of the Arrêté préfectoral, the name was fixed to have only one hyphen between the names of the former municipalities.

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