Deux-Sèvres
Deux-Sèvres (, Poitevin-Saintongese: ''Deùs Saevres'') is a French department. ''Deux-Sèvres'' literally means "two Sèvres": the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise are two rivers which have their sources in the department. It had a ...
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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region
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in western
France
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. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune
Plaine-et-Vallées
Plaine-et-Vallées (, literally ''Plain and Valleys'') is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. It was established on 1 January 2019 by merger of the former communes of Oiron (the seat), Brie, Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and Tai ...
.
Geography
The commune of Brie, located north of the department of Deux-Sèvres, is limited to the east by the department of Vienne.
Located east-southeast of
Thouars
Thouars () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. On 1 January 2019, the former communes Mauzé-Thouarsais, Missé and Sainte-Radegonde were merged into Thouars.
It is on the River Thouet. Its inhabitants are known ...
, it is watered by the Vieille Dive, a secondary arm of the river
Dive
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* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
Diving or Dive may also refer to:
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.
The municipality of Brie is part of the community of communes of Thouarsais and the union of Pays Thouarsais.
France
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between 1756 and 1789, the village is identified as Brye.
By prefectural order of December 4, 1972, effective January 1, 1973, the municipalities of Bilazais, Brie and Noizé merged with Oiron. On 14 February 1983, Brie became independent again (prefectural decree of 11 February 1983).
Policy and administration
List of successive mayors
*Until January 2002 the mayor was Yvon Réau.
*From February 2002 and re-elected in 2008 the mayor was Norbert Bonneau PS.
Places and monuments
*The
church
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whose
stained-glass window
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s were redone in modern form, which brings a very particular luminosity inside the nave
*The old chapel of Sazais.
Image:Brie église.JPG, L'église
Image:Brie église nef.JPG, Nef de l'église
Image:Brie chapelle de Sazais.JPG, L'ancienne chapelle de Sazais