Maine-et-Loire is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers,Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north,Loire-Atlantique to the west,Indre-et-Loire to the east,Vienne and Deux-Sèvres to the south,Vendée to the south-west,and Ille-et-Vilaine to the north-west. It also borders Ille-et-Vilaine in the north for just 20 yards (19 m),France's shortest department boundary. Its prefecture is Angers;its subprefectures are Cholet,Saumur and Segré-en-Anjou Bleu. Maine-et-Loire had a population of 818,273 in 2019.
Manche is a coastal French département in Normandy on the English Channel,which is known as La Manche,literally "the sleeve",in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south,Orne and Calvados to the east,the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.
Ille-et-Vilaine is a department of France,located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.
Loire-Atlantique is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France,named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of 1,429,272 in 2019.
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-et-Vilaine.
The Morbihan is a department in the administrative region of Brittany,situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan,the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline. It had a population of 759,684 in 2019. It is noted for its Carnac stones,which predate and are more extensive than the Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire,England.
Pierre-Henri Teitgen was a French lawyer,professor and politician. Teitgen was born in Rennes,Brittany. Taken POW in 1940,he played a major role in the French Resistance. Teitgen's father,Henri Teitgen (1882–1965),was a senior politician of the Popular Republican Movement.
The 3rd constituency of Ille-et-Vilaine is a French legislative constituency in the Ille-et-Vilaine département. Like the other 576 French constituencies,it elects one MP using the two-round system,with a run-off if no candidate receives over 50% of the vote in the first round.
Henri Fréville was a French history professor,writer,politician and French Resistance member.
Thierry Benoit is a French politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly of France since 2007. He represents the Ille-et-Vilaine department.
Marie-Anne Chapdelaine is a French politician,member of the Socialist Party. She was the deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine's 1st constituency in the National Assembly of France from 2012 to 2017,succeeding Jean-Michel Boucheron.
Charles Guernier was a French politician. He was deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine from 1906 to 1924 and from 1928 to 1942. He was Minister of Posts,Telegraphs,and Telephones from 1931 to 1932,and Minister of Public Works and the Merchant Marine in 1932.
Laurence Maillart-Méhaignerie is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as a member of the National Assembly since 2017,representing Ille-et-Vilaine's 2nd constituency.
Florian Bachelier is a French lawyer and politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who was a deputy in the French National Assembly,representing the department of Ille-et-Vilaine from 2017 to 2022.
Gilles Lurton is a French politician. He represented Ille-et-Vilaine's 7th constituency from 2012 to 2022,first as a member of the Union for a Popular Movement and then the Republicans.
Ferdinand Marie Auguste Baston,Count de Lariboisière was a French military officer and politician. He served as mayor of Louvigné-du-Désert,and as a general councillor,deputy,and senator of Ille-et-Vilaine. He was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Claudia Rouaux is a French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who became a member of the Deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine's 3rd constituency following the death of François Andréin 2017.
The Departmental Council of Ille-et-Vilaine is the deliberative assembly of the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the region of Brittany. It consists of 54 members from 27 cantons.
Mathilde Hignet is a French politician from La France Insoumise. She was elected as the member of parliament for Ille-et-Vilaine's 4th constituency in the 2022 French legislative election.
Mickaël Bouloux,born 16 August 1972 in Dinan,is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party,and was the mayor of Le Rheu from 2015 to 2022 and elected as deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine's 8th constituency in the 2022 electionas part of the NUPES group.
