Chauvigné

Chauvigné Kelvinieg
The church of Chauvigné
Coat of arms
Chauvigné
Location within Brittany region Chauvigné
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Fougères-Vitré
Canton	Antrain
Intercommunality	Antrain
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Henri Rault
Area1	17.71 km2 (6.84 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	770
• Density	43/km2 (110/sq mi)
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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Chauvigné (Breton: Kelvinieg, Gallo: Chauveinyaé) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

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%
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

• INSEE

External links

• Geography of Brittany
• The page of the commune on infobretagne.com
• The data base Mérimée - the French architectural heritage