La Gouesnière Gouenaer (Breton) | |
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_%25C3%2589glise_01.jpg) The church in La Gouesnière | |
 Coat of arms | |
 Location of La Gouesnière | |
  La Gouesnière  La Gouesnière | |
| Coordinates:48°36′22″N1°53′34″W / 48.6061°N 1.8928°W /48.6061; -1.8928 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Ille-et-Vilaine |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Malo |
| Canton | Saint-Malo-1 |
| Intercommunality | CA Pays de Saint-Malo |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Joël Hamel[1] |
Area 1 | 8.74 km2 (3.37 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 2,021 |
| • Density | 231/km2 (599/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 35122 /35350 |
| Elevation | 2–47 m (6.6–154.2 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
La Gouesnière (French pronunciation:[laɡwɛnjɛʁ];Breton:Gouenaer) is acommune in theIlle-et-Vilainedepartment ofBrittany in northwesternFrance.
Charles de Gaulle, on a trip toBrittany, stopped in the city on 11 September 1960 before joiningSaint-Malo.
La Gouesnière is twinned withSaint-Désert wine village, in the heart of the Burgundy vineyard, quoted in the poem ofAragon, The conscript of the hundred villages, written as an act of intellectual Resistance in a clandestine way in the spring of 1943, during theSecond World War.
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 669 | — |
| 1975 | 799 | +2.57% |
| 1982 | 908 | +1.84% |
| 1990 | 942 | +0.46% |
| 1999 | 1,068 | +1.40% |
| 2009 | 1,646 | +4.42% |
| 2014 | 1,759 | +1.34% |
| 2020 | 1,968 | +1.89% |
| Source: INSEE[3] | ||
Inhabitants of La Gouesnière are calledGouesnériens in French.
