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Chauvigné (French pronunciation: ​[ʃoviɲe]; Breton: Kelvinieg; Gallo: Chauveinyaé) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Chauvigné Kelvinieg
Commune
The church of Chauvigné
Coat of arms
Location of Chauvigné
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Coordinates: 48°22′36″N 1°27′32″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Fougères-Vitré
Canton	Val-Couesnon
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Henri Rault[1]
Area 1	17.71 km2 (6.84 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	808
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35075 /35490
Elevation	30–107 m (98–351 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Chauvigné is located at 38 km (24 mi) northeast of Rennes and 30 km (19 mi) south of the Mont Saint-Michel.

The communes bordering are Tremblay, Saint-Marc-le-Blanc, Le Tiercent, Saint-Christophe-de-Valains, Vieux-Vy-sur-Couesnon and Romazy.

Population

Inhabitants of Chauvigné are called Chauvignéens in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 972 —     1800 934 −3.9% 1806 946 +1.3% 1821 937 −1.0% 1831 971 +3.6% 1836 976 +0.5% 1841 938 −3.9% 1846 1,047 +11.6% 1851 1,156 +10.4% 1856 1,165 +0.8% 1861 1,204 +3.3% 1866 1,229 +2.1% 1872 1,292 +5.1% 1876 1,267 −1.9% 1881 1,208 −4.7% 1886 1,204 −0.3% 1891 1,200 −0.3%

Year Pop. ±% 1896 1,180 −1.7% 1901 1,129 −4.3% 1906 1,194 +5.8% 1911 1,172 −1.8% 1921 1,057 −9.8% 1926 964 −8.8% 1931 987 +2.4% 1936 959 −2.8% 1946 887 −7.5% 1954 840 −5.3% 1962 789 −6.1% 1968 741 −6.1% 1975 704 −5.0% 1982 617 −12.4% 1990 566 −8.3% 1999 575 +1.6% 2008 770 +33.9%

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chauvigné.

• Geography of Brittany
• The page of the commune on infobretagne.com
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

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