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Gâvres (French pronunciation: ​[ɡavʁ]; Breton: Gavr) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.[3] French Navy Minister Hyde de Neuville chose this place as a military testing area in 1829 for heavy marine ordnance.[4] The extensive experiments performed at sea have later provided part of the data upon which Hugoniot's theory is based.

Gâvres Gavr
Commune
The beach at Gâvres
Coat of arms
Location of Gâvres
Gâvres Show map of France Gâvres Show map of Brittany
Coordinates: 47°41′23″N 3°21′15″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Lorient
Canton	Pluvigner
Intercommunality	Lorient Agglomération
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Dominique Le Vouëdec[1]
Area 1	1.88 km2 (0.73 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	680
• Density	360/km2 (940/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56062 /56680
Elevation	0–10 m (0–33 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Gâvres are called in French Gâvrais.

See also

• Communes of the Morbihan department

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gâvres.

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)

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