Peumerit

Peumerit

Purid
Peumerit Purid
Commune
	The town hall in Peumerit
	Coat of arms
	Location of Peumerit
	Peumerit Peumerit
	Coordinates: 47°56′22″N 4°18′29″W / 47.9394°N 4.3081°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Plonéour-Lanvern
Intercommunality	Haut-Pays Bigouden
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Louis Caradec
Area 1	19.59 km2 (7.56 sq mi)
Population (2021)	878
• Density	45/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29159 /29710
Elevation	6–127 m (20–417 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Peumerit (French pronunciation: [pømʁit]; Breton: Purid) formerly Peumérit,^[3] is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

Population

Inhabitants of Peumerit are called in French Peumeritois.

History

Modern period

This municipally is known for facts related to the revolt of "bonnets rouges" traduce, the red caps, in 1675. In 1759, an order from Louis XV order to the parish of Peumerit to provide 20 men and to pay 131 livres for "the annual expense of the coastguard of Britain".

French Revolution

The parish of Peumerit, which included 140 fires, elects two delegates, Alain Le Brun and Pierre Canevet, for represent it to the third-state assembly of the seneschal of Quimper, in the spring of 1789.

The 20th Century

A political and religious life agitated

The expulsion of the clergy of the Peumerit Parish trains on the 11 March 1909 the decision of M.Duparc to ban all the religious ringtones, even for the Angélus and funerals, a priest installed in the presbytery of Treogat, is charged to visit ills, to proceed at funerals and administer the sacraments.

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 9 June 2006.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Since 1 August 2012, Journal officiel de la République Française, 3 August 2012

External links

Official website (in French)
Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
Mayors of Finistère Association (in French)

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[3] Since 1 August 2012, Journal officiel de la République Française, 3 August 2012

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