Uzel (; or Uzel-près-l'Oust
) is a
commune in the
Côtes-d'Armor department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Brittany in northwestern
France. It is about west-northwest of
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
and north-northwest of
Loudéac.
The old school, in the centre of Uzel, was the scene of torture and killings by the Nazis and by the
collaborationist
Wartime collaboration is cooperation with the enemy against one's country of citizenship in wartime, and in the words of historian Gerhard Hirschfeld, "is as old as war and the occupation of foreign territory".
The term ''collaborator'' dates to t ...
Bezen Perrot, in 1944.
Population
The inhabitants of Uzel are known in French as ''uzelais''.
Personalities
*
Fulgence Bienvenüe, chief engineer for the Paris Métro in 1896, was born in Uzel in 1852.
*
Alphonse Guépin, architect, born in Uzel in 1808.
*
Yves Morvan, romanesque art specialist, born in Uzel in 1932.
See also
*
Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
References
External links
*
Communes of Côtes-d'Armor
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