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Brissac-Quincé () is a former commune of the
Maine-et-Loire Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-et ...
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département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...
'', in France. It was created in 1964 from a regrouping of two former neighbouring communes, Brissac and Quincé. On 15 December 2016, Brissac-Quincé was merged into the new commune of
Brissac Loire Aubance Brissac Loire Aubance () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. The municipality was established on 15 December 2016 and consists of the former communes of Les Alleuds, Brissac-Quincé, Charcé-Saint-Ellier-sur-Aubance ...
.Arrêté préfectoral
6 September 2016 The French mathematician Charles-René Reynaud (1656–1728) was born in Brissac. The
Château de Brissac The Château de Brissac is a French château in the Brissac-Quincé area of the commune of Brissac Loire Aubance, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire, France. The property is owned by the Cossé-Brissac family, whose head bears the Fr ...
is located in the commune.


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Caluso Caluso is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin. Caluso borders the following municipalities: San Giorgio Canavese, Candia Canavese, Barone Canavese, ...
, Italy


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Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Former communes of Maine-et-Loire {{MaineLoire-geo-stub