Mûr-de-Bretagne

Mûr-de-Bretagne Mur
The town hall of Mûr-de-Bretagne
Coat of arms
Mûr-de-Bretagne
Location within Brittany region Mûr-de-Bretagne
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Guingamp
Canton	Mûr-de-Bretagne
Intercommunality	Guerlédan Mûr-de-Bretagne
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Hervé Le Lu
Area1	29.80 km2 (11.51 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	2,094
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	22158 / 22530
Elevation	69–290 m (226–951 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Mûr-de-Bretagne (Breton: Mur) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Geography

Map of the commune

Mûr-de-Bretagne is a small town with shops, located east of the Lac de Guerlédan.

Toponymy

The old forms are: Mur (1283), Mur (1368), Mur (1516), Mur (1536), Meur (1630).

The name of the commune translated into Breton is Mur.

Politics and administration

List of mayors of Mûr-de-Bretagne

Start	End	Name	Party	Other details
1809	1815	Guillaume Michel Fraboullet
...	...	Raymond Hinault
June 1995	2008	Alain Auffret	Independent	Farmer
March 2008	...	Georges Tilly	Independent	Retired, President of the CC
2014	In progress	Hervé Le Lu	Independent	Art director

Demographics

In 2012, the municipality had 2,106 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses carried out in the town since 1793. From the 21st century, communes with less 10,000 population have real censuses held every five years, unlike other municipalities that have a sample survey each year.

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% 1793 1,891 —     1800 2,096 +10.8% 1806 1,819 −13.2% 1821 1,951 +7.3% 1831 2,354 +20.7% 1836 2,283 −3.0% 1841 2,267 −0.7% 1846 2,413 +6.4% 1851 2,403 −0.4% 1856 2,333 −2.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1861 2,362 +1.2% 1866 2,534 +7.3% 1872 2,510 −0.9% 1876 2,508 −0.1% 1881 2,581 +2.9% 1886 2,528 −2.1% 1891 2,433 −3.8% 1896 2,489 +2.3% 1901 2,574 +3.4% 1906 2,436 −5.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1911 2,417 −0.8% 1921 2,254 −6.7% 1926 2,149 −4.7% 1931 2,233 +3.9% 1936 2,265 +1.4% 1946 2,409 +6.4% 1954 2,116 −12.2% 1962 2,125 +0.4% 1968 2,075 −2.4% 1975 2,105 +1.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1982 2,091 −0.7% 1990 2,049 −2.0% 1999 2,090 +2.0% 2005 2,084 −0.3% 2006 2,096 +0.6% 2010 2,108 +0.6% 2012 2,106 −0.1%
From 1962 to 1999: Population without double counting; for the years following: municipal population. Source: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1999 then INSEE from 2004

The inhabitants of Mûr-de-Bretagne are known in French as mûrois.

Local culture and heritage

Places and monuments

The Chapel of Sainte-Suzanne

• The chapel Sainte-Suzanne is classified as an historical monument since 4 June 1952. It is surrounded by oak trees painted around 1840-1850 by Jean-Baptiste Corot.
• Church of Saint-Pierre: indoors, altars and chairs carved by a local artist. On the pulpit, sculpted panels represent the seven deadly sins.
• The fr, classified as an historical monument on 8 November 1956.
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Sport

A painting of Jean Robic - Mûr-de-Bretagne - Tour de France 2011.

Mûr was the end of the fourth stage of the 2011 Tour de France; Cadel Evans won the stage in 2011 and went on to win the Tour. Mûr hosted the finish of the eighth stage of the 2015 Tour de France. Alexis Vuillermoz took the win.

Heraldry

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The arms of Mûr-de-Bretagne are blazoned : Of azure to a cross engrailed or, to a franc-canton gules, charged four macles of argent raised 2,2.

See also

• Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
• Lac de Guerlédan

References

• INSEE

External links

• French Ministry of Culture list for Mûr-de-Bretagne (French)