Châteaulin
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Châteaulin (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Finistère department and administrative region of Brittany in north-western France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Geography
Châteaulin is in a valley towards the center of Finistère on the River Aulne and the Canal de Nantes à Brest, mid-way between Quimper to the south and Brest to the north. To the west the Menez-Hom hills separate it from the Crozon peninsula and the Bay of Douarnenez, which opens into the Atlantic Ocean.
Population
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Breton language
In 2008 1.96% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools.[2]
Economy
Châteaulin's economy is based on food processing (salmon and poultry) and, to an ever-greater extent, tourism. The Gendarmerie school on the outskirts of the town provides for a large number of families and the many recruits passing through the school provide the economic backbone of the town's night-life.
Personalities
- Yves Marie André, better known as le Père André (1675–1764), Jesuit priest and philosopher.
- 27 November 1761 : Birth of Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien (died in Brest 17 February 1825), Rear-Admiral and Baron d'Empire.
- Jean Moulin, emblem of the French Resistance during the Second World War, was the sub-prefect from 1930 to 1933.
- Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven. He was a friend and student of Paul Gauguin. In 1893, unable to make a living from his painting, he moved to Châteaulin behind Église Saint-Idunet where he worked as a lawyer until 1905.
International relations
Châteaulin is twinned with:
- Template:Flagicon - Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland.
- Template:Flagicon - Grimmen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
See also
- Cantons of the Finistère department
- Communes of the Finistère department
- Arrondissements of the Finistère department
- Parc naturel régional d'Armorique
- Brennilis Parish close
References
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