Gâvres (; ) is a
commune in the
Morbihan department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Brittany in north-western
France. French Navy Minister
Hyde de Neuville
Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (24 January 177628 May 1857) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and politician.
Early years; Royalist agent
Jean-Guillaume was born at La Charité-sur-Loire (Nièvre), the son of Guillaume Hyde, who belonged ...
chose this place as a military testing area in 1829 for heavy marine ordnance.
[See the governmental directions of June 22, 1829, quoted in .] The extensive experiments performed at sea have later provided part of the data upon which
Hugoniot's theory is based.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Gâvres are called in French ''Gâvrais''.
See also
*
Communes of the Morbihan department
References
External links
*
Mayors of Morbihan Association
Communes of Morbihan
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