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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

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Mayors of Morbihan Association
Communes of Morbihan {{Morbihan-geo-stub