Commune in Pays de la Loire, France
Rezé (French: [ʁəze] ⓘ ; Breton : Reudied , Gallo : Rezae ) is a commune (municipality) and former bishopric in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region of western France . It is a southern suburb of Nantes .
It was also called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages .
View of Rezé from the Maison Radieuse of Corbusier
History
Rezé dates back to the Roman era, when it was known as Portus Ratiatus (port of Rezé) and Ratiatum Pictonum Portus (Picton port of Rezé). Being populated by the Ambilatres tribe, whose location on the south bank of the lower Loire is not established with certainty, between Armorica and Celtica Gaul .
Rezé was an important port on the south shore of the Loire , established opposite the port of Namnetes , located north of the Loire, Nantes - Contigwic of its Gaulish name - and it is experiencing rapid development, which suggests a strong power of attraction, a place for meetings and trade between the various Celtic tribes of the region (Veneti , Namnetes , Ambilatres , Andecavis and of course Pictones ).
In 510 a Latin Catholic Diocese of Rezé was established on territory split off from the Diocese of Poitiers . It was suppressed 851, its territory being reassigned to the nearby then Diocese of Nantes . No incumbents or other details available.
It has ruins of Gallo-Roman settlement and a priory of Saint Lucien.
In feudal times, it was the capital of Pays de Retz which means “Land of Rezé” within the Duchy of Brittany , after the invasion of the Bretons.
Geography
Location of the Rezé commune in the department of Loire-Atlantique
The commune is surrounded by the communes of Nantes , Vertou , Les Sorinières , Pont-Saint-Martin and Bouguenais . It is limited north by the Loire , east by the Sèvre Nantaise and the Ilette, west by the Jaguère and south by the boulevard périphérique of Nantes. Rezé-Pont-Rousseau station has rail connections to Pornic, Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.
Monuments
Municipal administration
Since the municipal elections of 1977, the communal council has always been filled in the first round of voting.
List of mayors before 1944
Term
Name
Political Party
Position
March 1790-January 1791
Louis Michel Dupré Villaine (1735–1806)
Royalist
April 1791-December 1792
Pierre François Huard (1755–1814)
Republican
December 1792-March 1796
Ambroise Alphonse Le Coûteux (1740–1805)
Constitutional
April 1796-August 1800
Pierre François Huard (1755–1814)
Republican
August 1800-October 1803
Pierre François Huard (1755–1814)
Republican
October 1803-August 1807
Jean-Baptiste Ertaud (1763–1840)
Republican
August 1807-April 1820
Jean François Ertaud (1769–1840)
Governmental
April 1820-August 1830
Joseph de Monti de Rezé (1766–1850)
Legitimist
August 1830-November 1844
Pierre Giraud (1789–1844)
Orléanist
General Council
December 1844-March 1848
Joseph Delaville Leroux (1775–1855)
Orléanist
March 1848-September 1848
Arsène Leloup (1803–1876)
Republican
September 1848-March 1864
Philémon Chenantais (1805–1883)
Bonapartist
March 1864-September 1870
Hippolyte Aguesse (1799–1875)
Governmental
October 1870-October 1875
Hippolyte Aguesse (1799–1875)
Governmental
October 1875-August 1876
Félix Chauvelon (1825–1888)
Republican
October 1876-May 1878
Julien Albert (1807–1878)
Republican
May 1878-January 1890
Joseph Raphaël Lancelot (1832–1890)
Republican
March 1890-May 1896
Georges Grignon Dumoulin (1845–1904)
Republican
May 1896-May 1908
Ernest Sauvestre (1849–1932)
Radical Republican
May 1908-May 1929
Jean Baptiste Vigier (1863–1940)
Republican
Conseiller d'arrondissement
May 1929-May 1935
Charles Rivière (1870–1947)
Radical Socialist
May 1935-December 1936
Léon Taugeron (1886–1961)
Radical Socialist
December 1936-March 1941
Jean Vignais (1878–1954)
Radical Socialist
March 1941-September 1944
Alexandre Le Lamer (1873–1950)
Right
Sources: Yann Vince, "Rezé, histoire municipale" éditions Hérault, 1997
List of mayors after 1944
Term
Name
Political Party
Position
September 1944-May 1945
Jean Vignais (1878–1954)
Radical Socialist
May 1945-March 1949
Arthur Boutin (1903–1980)
SFIO
General Council
March 1949-March 1959
Georges Albert Bénezet (1892–1970)
RPF
March 1959-February 1978
Alexandre Plancher (1909–1978)
SFIO
General Council
April 1978-February 1999
Jacques Floch (1938- )
PS
Deputy
1999–2014
Gilles Retière
PS
2014–2020
Gérard Allard
PS
2020–2022
Hervé Neau
DVG
2022–incumbent
Agnès Bourgeais[ 1]
Sources: Yann Vince, "Rezé, histoire municipale" éditions Hérault, 1997
Population
Historical population Year 1793 4,466 — 1800 3,519 −3.35% 1806 4,989 +5.99% 1821 4,756 −0.32% 1831 4,968 +0.44% 1841 5,277 +0.61% 1846 6,203 +3.29% 1851 6,644 +1.38% 1856 7,054 +1.20% 1861 7,209 +0.44% 1866 7,423 +0.59% 1872 6,946 −1.10% 1876 6,849 −0.35% 1881 7,377 +1.50% 1886 7,418 +0.11% 1891 7,431 +0.04% 1896 7,803 +0.98% 1901 8,751 +2.32%
Year 1906 8,919 +0.38% 1911 9,424 +1.11% 1921 10,368 +0.96% 1926 11,050 +1.28% 1931 12,325 +2.21% 1936 13,499 +1.84% 1946 16,395 +1.96% 1954 19,000 +1.86% 1962 28,276 +5.10% 1968 33,509 +2.87% 1975 35,730 +0.92% 1982 33,562 −0.89% 1990 33,262 −0.11% 1999 35,478 +0.72% 2007 37,846 +0.81% 2012 39,377 +0.80% 2017 41,411 +1.01%
Source: EHESS[ 3] and INSEE[ 4]
International relations
Rezé is twinned with:
See also
References
External links
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