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Combourg (; br, Komborn; ;
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: ''Conbórn'') is a
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in the
Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.
department in
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in northwestern
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History

The town is part of the Patrimoine Urbain de Bretagne and labelled as one of Les Petites Cités de Caractère. Combourg is considered the "cradle of Romanticism" in French literature due to the renowned French writer François-René de Chateaubriand who spent part of his youth in his family's castle, the Château de Combourg. He describes the village and medieval castle in his ''Mémoirs from Beyond the Grave''. Combourg is located between the cities of Rennes and Saint-Malo in Brittany. It is approximately 386 km from Paris, 39 km from Rennes and 36 km from Saint-Malo .


Administration


Mayors

The current mayor of Combourg is Joël Le Besco (
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). He replaced Marie-Thérèse Sauvée (
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) in office from 1995 to 2001. * André Belliard (1932-2005), RPR mayor from 1971 to 1977 and from 1983 to 1995; * Joseph Hubert ''
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'' (1921-1994),
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mayor from 1970 to 1971 and from 1977 to 1983; * Abel Bourgeois (1904-1970),
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mayor from 1945 to 1970 (
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). Among previous well-known mayors are: * Émile Bohuon (1880-1938), Independent Radical mayor from 1919 to 1938 (
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); * Valentin Cutté (1854-1936),
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mayor from 1903 to 1919; * Gervais Parent (1852-1913), from 1885 to 1900; * Victor Thomas (1832-1885), from 1876 to 1877, in 1878 and from 1880 to 1885; * Jean Gesbert de la Noë-Seiche (1748-1828), first mayor of Combourg in 1790.


Population

Inhabitants of Combourg are called ''Combourgeois'' and, more rarely ''Combournais'', in French.


Personalities

François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who had a notable influence on French literature of the nineteenth century. Descended from an old aristocrati ...
(1768–1848), known as the father of Romanticism in French literature, spent his childhood in his family's castle, the Château de Combourg.


International relations

Combourg is twinned with
Waldmünchen Waldmünchen (Central Bavarian: ''Woidminga''), is a town in the district of Cham, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Czech Republic, 18 km (11 mi) north of Cham, and 18 km (11 mi) southwest of DomaÅ ...
, in
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Gallery

File:Combourg (35) Église Notre-Dame - Extérieur - 01.jpg, Notre-Dame church of Combourg File:Combourg (35) Hôtel de Trémaudan.jpg, Maison de la Lanterne


See also

* Château de Combourg *
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department The following is a list of the 333 communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Ville de Combourg

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