Bouère is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Mayenne

Mayenne

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 department in north-western France

France

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Geography

Situated 35 km (21.7 mi) from Laval

Laval, Mayenne

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, 54 km (33.6 mi) from Angers

Angers

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, and 70 km (43.5 mi) from Le Mans

Le Mans

Le Mans is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region.Its inhabitants are called Manceaux...

 in the south-east of today's Mayenne département, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of Anjou

Anjou

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Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur

Basilica of the Sacré Cœur

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 and Saint-Lazare railway station

Gare Saint-Lazare

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 in Paris

Paris

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Administration

List of successive mayors

Beginning	End	Name	Party
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

Démography

Year	Population	Year	Population
1962	993	1968	1149
1975	1,030	1982	911
1990	857	1999	907
2004	921

Places and monuments

• Romance church (XIe/XIIe restored in XIXe century),
• Communal cemetery (registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings),
• Votive vault 1871,
• Castle of Bois-Jourdan 16ème/17ème century and dependences,
• Castle of the Vézousière 18ème century,
• Castle of Rochers 19ème century,
• Castle of the Sevaudière 19ème century,
• Castle of Daviers 19ème century.

External links

Bouère on the site of the national geographical Institute Bouère on the site of l'Insee Bouère on the site of Quid The communes closest to Bouère Localization of Bouère on a chart of France