Bouère (French pronunciation: [bwɛʁ]) is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France.
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The church in Bouère | |
Location of Bouère ![]() | |
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Coordinates: 47°51′50″N 0°28′38″W | |
Country | France |
Region | Pays de la Loire |
Department | Mayenne |
Arrondissement | Château-Gontier |
Canton | Meslay-du-Maine |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Jacky Chauveau[1] |
Area 1 | 42.54 km2 (16.42 sq mi) |
Population | 1,065 |
• Density | 25/km2 (65/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 53036 /53290 |
Elevation | 41–117 m (135–384 ft) (avg. 81 m or 266 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Situated 35 km (22 mi) from Laval, 54 km (34 mi) from Angers, and 70 km (43 mi) from Le Mans in the southeast of today's Mayenne department, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of Anjou.
Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris.
List of successive mayors
Beginning | End | Name |
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2008 | 2026 | Jacky Chauveau |
1978 | 2008 | Claude Bucher |
1906 | Chemin | |
1896 | Beauplet | |
1880 | 1896 | Foucher |
1870 | 1880 | Bachlier |
1855 | 1870 | Sesboué |
1850 | Godivier | |
1840 | Sesboué | |
1836 | Tonnelier | |
1830 | 1836 | Chamaret |
1827 | 1830 | Oger |
1821 | 1824 | Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan |
1801 | 1804 | Tonnelier |
1800 | Jamin | |
1791 | 1795 | René Sesboué |
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1962 | 993 | — |
1968 | 1,149 | +15.7% |
1975 | 1,030 | −10.4% |
1982 | 911 | −11.6% |
1990 | 857 | −5.9% |
1999 | 907 | +5.8% |
2004 | 921 | +1.5% |
2009 | 1,027 | +11.5% |
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