Le Saint

Le Saint Ar Sent
Commune
The town hall in Le Saint
Coat of arms
Location of Le Saint
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Coordinates: 48°05′25″N 3°33′40″W / 48.0903°N 3.5611°W / 48.0903; -3.5611
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Roi Morvan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jérôme Regnier[1]
Area 1	31.03 km2 (11.98 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	600
• Density	19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56201 /56110
Elevation	73–223 m (240–732 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Saint (French pronunciation: [lə sɛ̃]; Breton: Ar Sent) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.^[3]

Breton language[edit]

The municipality launched a Breton linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 24 February 2005.

Population[edit]

The population has been divided by three since the first world war.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,644 —     1800 1,633 −0.10% 1806 1,378 −2.79% 1821 1,220 −0.81% 1831 1,458 +1.80% 1836 1,487 +0.39% 1841 1,630 +1.85% 1846 1,704 +0.89% 1851 1,627 −0.92% 1856 1,582 −0.56% 1861 1,646 +0.80% 1866 1,679 +0.40% 1872 1,609 −0.71% 1876 1,639 +0.46% 1881 1,753 +1.35% 1886 1,782 +0.33% 1891 1,804 +0.25% 1896 1,820 +0.18%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,962 +1.51% 1906 2,055 +0.93% 1911 2,159 +0.99% 1921 2,068 −0.43% 1926 2,088 +0.19% 1931 2,035 −0.51% 1936 1,967 −0.68% 1946 1,800 −0.88% 1954 1,513 −2.15% 1962 1,354 −1.38% 1968 1,208 −1.88% 1975 1,013 −2.48% 1982 881 −1.97% 1990 761 −1.81% 1999 696 −0.99% 2009 654 −0.62% 2014 606 −1.51% 2020 590 −0.44%
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Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2020)[5]

Geography[edit]

Le Saint is located in the northwestern part of Morbihan, 40 km (25 mi) north of Lorient. Historically, it belongs to Cornouaille. Le Saint is border by Gourin to the west and the north, by Langonnet and Le Faouët to the east and by Guiscriff to the south. The river Inam forms the commune's western border and the river Moulin du Duc forms the commune's eastern border. The two rivers meet at the southern end of the commune at a place called Pont Briand. Apart from the village centre there are about eighty hamlets.

Map[edit]

Topographic map.

List of places[edit]

History[edit]

The lords of Faouët, the Bouteville, lived in their castle in Le Saint in the fifteenth century.

Gallery[edit]

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  The church.
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  The chapel of Saint-Méen.
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  Fountain of Saint-Méen.
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  The chapel of Saint-Trémeur.
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  Oratory of Bouthiry.

See also[edit]

• Communes of the Morbihan department

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Le Saint.

• 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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