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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.
Avranches
Contents 1 History 2 Geography 3 Sights 4 Sport 5 Twin towns 6 Births 7 References 8 External links History[edit]
By the end of the Roman period, the settlement of Ingena, capital of
the
Abrincatui tribe, had taken the name of the tribe itself. This was
the origin of the name Avranches. In 511 the town became the seat of a
bishopric (suppressed in 1790) and subsequently of a major Romanesque
cathedral dedicated to
Saint
Patton Square The same council was forbidden to confer on children benefice,
carrying with it the cure of souls, or on the children of priests for
the churches of their fathers. Each parish was required to have an
assistant (vicarius), and the Advent fast was commended to all who
could observe it, especially to ecclesiastics.
The town was damaged in both the
Hundred Years' War
Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1793 5,880 — 1800 5,413 −7.9% 1806 6,144 +13.5% 1821 6,431 +4.7% 1831 7,269 +13.0% 1836 7,690 +5.8% 1841 8,256 +7.4% 1846 7,965 −3.5% 1851 8,932 +12.1% 1856 8,702 −2.6% 1861 8,592 −1.3% 1866 8,642 +0.6% 1872 8,137 −5.8% 1876 8,157 +0.2% 1881 8,057 −1.2% 1886 8,000 −0.7% 1891 7,785 −2.7% 1896 7,845 +0.8% 1901 7,384 −5.9% 1906 7,360 −0.3% 1911 7,174 −2.5% 1921 6,597 −8.0% 1926 6,803 +3.1% 1931 6,881 +1.1% 1936 7,130 +3.6% 1946 7,554 +5.9% 1954 8,004 +6.0% 1962 8,854 +10.6% 1968 9,775 +10.4% 1975 10,136 +3.7% 1982 9,468 −6.6% 1990 8,638 −8.8% 1999 8,509 −1.5% 2006 8,239 −3.2% 2009 8,090 −1.8% 2014 7,813 −3.4% Formerly dominated by the cathedral, where Henry II did penance, an
open grassed area La Plate-Forme overlooking the bay towards Mont
Saint-Michel displays only a few remnants of the destroyed building.
The major church Notre Dame des Champs was constructed in Gothic
Revival style in the 19th century to restore the religious life of the
town after the destruction of the cathedral. A smaller church Saint
Gervais houses a treasury, best known for the purported skull of Saint
Aubert complete with hole where the archangel Michael's finger pierced
it (probably a prehistoric trepanned skull).
The botanical gardens were founded in the grounds of the former
Franciscan convent in the late 18th century. The expansion and
introduction of exotic species in the 19th century and the location of
the gardens overlooking the bay made the gardens an important sight in
the town.
The Manoir de Brion, an ancient Benedictine priory of Mont
Saint-Michel, is located in Dragey.
Avranches
Notre Dame des Champs Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Stations of the Cross Saint-Gervais Basilica Saint-Gervais Basilica,
Skull of
Saint
Sport[edit]
US Avranches
Saint-Gaudens, France, since the autumn of 1944, when the town of
Saint-Gaudens, Haute-Garonne
Births[edit]
Avranches
General
Jean-Marie Valhubert
References[edit] ^ Rene Andre,
Avranches
External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Avranches.
Wikisource
INSEE commune file Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Council of Avranches". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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