Plouër-sur-Rance (, literally ''Plouër on
Rance
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Places
* Rance (river), northwestern France
* Rancé, a commune in eastern France, near Lyon
* Ranče, a small settlement in Slovenia
* Rance, Wallonia, part of the municipality of Sivry-Rance
** Rouge de Rance, a Devonian re ...
''; br, Plouhern) is a
commune
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** Communes of ...
in the
Côtes-d'Armor
The Côtes-d'Armor (, ; ; br, Aodoù-an-Arvor, ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord ( br, Aodoù-an-Hanternoz, link=no, ), are a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582. department
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of
Brittany
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in northwestern
France
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.
Over twenty years,
René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was renovating and organizing the archives of Le
Château
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Nowaday ...
de Plouër (a private property; ),
Chateau pictured.
/ref> which he'd inherited from an uncle, and was nearly finished with the endeavor at the time of his death in 2008.
by Alex Berenson and Matthew Saltmarsh, ''The New York Times
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'', 2009-01-02, p. B1 NY edition.
Population
Inhabitants of Plouër-sur-Rance are called ''plouërais'' in French.
See also
*Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
The following is a list of the 348 Communes of France, communes of the Côtes-d'Armor Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
External links
Official website
*
Communes of Côtes-d'Armor
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