Saint-Briac-sur-Mer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Commune of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 02° 07' 58" W |
| Latitude | 48° 37' 16" N |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Bretagne |
| Department | Ille-et-Vilaine |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Malo |
| Canton | Dinard |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes Côte d'Émeraude, Rance et Frémur |
| Mayor | Brice Lalonde |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 0 m–62 m (avg. 40 m) |
| Land area¹ | 8.06 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
2,054 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 35256/ 35800 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
 |
|
Saint-Briac, also known as Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, is a commune of the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in Brittany, France.
Brice Lalonde, a former Socialist and Green Party candidate for president of France, is mayor of this wealthy resort village.
Lalonde and his first cousin, U.S. Senator John Kerry, are grandsons of James Grant Forbes, an heir of the Forbes family of China and Boston, who was born in Shanghai and later moved to France where the Forbes family estate is located. Kerry and Lalonde were childhood friends on the estate in Saint-Briac.
[edit] External links
 |
This Bretagne geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
