Bouère () is a commune in the

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-e ...

department in northwestern

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Situated from Laval, from

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

, and from

Le Mans Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. 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 ...

in the southeast of today's Mayenne department, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of

Anjou Anjou may refer to: Geography and titles France *County of Anjou, a historical county in France and predecessor of the Duchy of Anjou **Count of Anjou, title of nobility *Duchy of Anjou, a historical duchy and later a province of France **Duke ...

. Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the

Basilica of the Sacré Cœur In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name t ...

and Saint-Lazare railway station in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

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* Romanesque church (11th/12th century restored in the 19th century) * Communal cemetery (registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings) * Votive vault 1871 * Castle of Bois-Jourdan 16th/17th century and dependences * Castle of the Vézousière 18th century * Castle of Rochers 19th century * Castle of the Sevaudière 19th century * Castle of Daviers 19th century

Personalities

Urbain Grandier Urbain Grandier (1590 – 18 August 1634) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called " Loudun possessions". Most modern commentators have concluded that Gra ...

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