Joué-sur-Erdre
Encyclopedia
Joué-sur-Erdre is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique is a department on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean.-History:...

 department in western France.

People from Joué-sur-Erdre are called Jovéens (men) and Jovéennes (women).

Etymology

The name of Joué-sur-Erdre comes from the Latin
Latin
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 word (Jupiter
Jupiter (mythology)
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) and the celtic word (little river). Its Breton
Breton language
Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...

 name is . The Breton name of the people from Yaoued is Yaouedad (for men) and Yaouedadez (for women).

Situation

Joué-sur-Erdre is at 47°29′47"N 1°25′08"W, in western France in Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique
Loire-Atlantique is a department on the west coast of France named after the Loire River and the Atlantic Ocean.-History:...

. The commune is 29 km north-west of Ancenis
Ancenis
Ancenis is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Now, in Région Pays de la Loire, it played a great historical role as a key location on the road to Nantes , the historical capital of Brittany...

 and 30 km north-east of Nantes
Nantes
Nantes is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, while its metropolitan area ranks 8th with over 800,000 inhabitants....

.

The commune is, as the crow flies
As the crow flies
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, 318 km of Paris.

Relief

The highest point in the city is 66 meters above the sea level, the deepest one is seven meters above. The mean elevation is 37 meters above the sea level.

Hydrology

The commune is crossed by the Erdre
Erdre
The Erdre is a river in western France, right tributary to the river Loire. Its source is in the Maine-et-Loire département, near La Pouëze. It flows through the départements Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique. It flows into the river Loire in the city Nantes...

 and the Isac
ISAC
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 rivers.

The lake Vioreau was extended in 1835 to reached 200 ha.
Global warming

Although the highest point of the commune is 66 meters above the sea level, the mean level is 37 meters. That is to say that the commune is concerned by the golbal warming and the elevation of the sea level.

Joué-sur-Erdre is among the 69,68 % communes concerned by this elevation.

Urban morphology

The commune is made up of the principal village and many other hamlet
Hamlet
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s as Notre-Dame-des-Langueurs, la Demenure, la Mulonnière, Franchaud, la Cormerais, and la Gicquelière.



Communications and transports

The RN 178, running from east/west, crosses Joué-sur-Erdre.

The hamlet of Gros Breil is crossed by railway tracks.

The nearest airport is in Ancenis
Ancenis
Ancenis is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.Now, in Région Pays de la Loire, it played a great historical role as a key location on the road to Nantes , the historical capital of Brittany...

.

Adjacent villages

Nord-Ouest: Abbaretz
Abbaretz
Abbaretz is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It lies 50 km north of Nantes and 80 km south of Rennes.The surrounding communes are Nozay, Puceul, Saffré, Joué-sur-Erdre, La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne, Issé and Treffieux....

Nord: La Meilleraye de Bretagne Nord-est: Riaillé
Riaillé
Riaillé is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...

Ouest: Saffré
Saffré
Saffré is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...

Joué-sur-Erdre
Sud-Ouest : Nort-sur-Erdre
Nort-sur-Erdre
Nort-sur-Erdre is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...

Sud: Les Touches
Les Touches
Les Touches is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France....

Sud-Est: Trans-sur-Erdre
Trans-sur-Erdre
Trans-sur-Erdre is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...



History

In the 9th century, to shield the country from Norman invasion waves, a fort called Alon was built on what is now known as Joué-sur-Erdre.

At the beginning of the 13th century, the castel of Vioreau and its neighbouring lands were called "Joué" referring to the lord who lived in, Hervé de Joué. In this time, Joué was the heart of the greatest seigniory near Nantes with a surface reaching twenty parishes in the 16th century. It was later assimilated in the Barony of Chateaubriant
Châteaubriant
-Coat of arms:Two coats of arms are attributed :*First Pale: Blue, three gold fleurs de lys, Pales split in two by a shortened staff with a red hache....

.

Two castels are still existing in the parish, Lucinière and la Chauvelière. In the first one used to live the bishops of Nantes from the 15th to the 16th centuries. The castel of la Chauvelière used to belong to the Brittany chancellor.

On 13 August 1487, after the failure of the siege of Nantes
Battle of Nantes
The Battle of Nantes was a battle between Royalist and Republican French forces at Nantes on 29 June 1793 during the War in the Vendée. It consisted of the siege of that town, and was a Republican victory...

 (fom 19 June to 6 August 1487) hold by the duc de Bretagne, King Charles VIII
Charles VIII of France
Charles VIII, called the Affable, , was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. Charles was a member of the House of Valois...

 and Anne of Beaujeu encamped with their troops in Joué.

In 1592, during the Holy League
Catholic League (French)
The Catholic League of France, sometimes referred to by contemporary Roman Catholics as the Holy League, a major player in the French Wars of Religion, was formed by Duke Henry of Guise in 1576...

, Joué-sur-Erdre and Nort-sur-Erdre
Nort-sur-Erdre
Nort-sur-Erdre is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.-See also:*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department...

 hosted French and Spanish troops headed by the Duke of Mercœur.

On 30 May 1847, the village took its current name of Joué-sur-Erdre.

Economy

In 2004, only eight firms were created in Joué-sur-Erdre, which place the village to the st position.

Emploi

In 1999, the labor force reached 671 people. The unemployment rate of the village was 10,4 %.

Distribution of jobs by domain of activity
Farmers Craftsmen, storekeepers, business managers Cadre, Intellectual Professions intermédiaires
('Intermediate occupations')
Employee Blue-collar worker
Joué-sur-Erdre 13 % 5,1 % 6,2 % 14,1 % 27,7 % 33,8 %
National average 2,4 % 6,4 % 12,1 % 22,1 % 29,9 % 27,1 %
Data : INSEE


French European Constitution referendum of 2005

During the European Constitution referendum which took place on 29 May 2005, there were 40,39 % voting "yes" and 59,61 % voting "no". The abstention rate
Abstention
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 was 26,04 %.

French presidential election of 2007

During the first round Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....

 obtained 27,74 % of the votes and Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

 obtained 25,12 %. During the second round 53,06 % of the votes were obtained by des voix furent remportées par Nicolas Sarkozy against 46,94 % for Ségolène Royal. The participation rate was 86,48 % (nationwide : 83,97 %) and spoilt vote represented 3,75 % of the electors (nationwide : 4,20 %).
First round :


The first round was held on April 22, 2007:
Party Results National average
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....

Union pour un mouvement populaire 27,74 % 31,18 %
Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

Parti socialiste 25,12 % 25,87 %
François Bayrou
François Bayrou
François Bayrou is a French centrist politician, president of Union for French Democracy since 1998 and was a candidate in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections. In the first round, he received 18.6% of the vote, finishing in 3rd place and therefore was eliminated from the race....

Union pour la démocratie française 19,97 % 18,57 %
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a French far right-wing and nationalist politician who is founder and former president of the Front National party. Le Pen has run for the French presidency five times, most notably in 2002, when in a surprise upset he came second, polling more votes in the first round than...

Front national 10,23 % 10,44 %
Olivier Besancenot
Olivier Besancenot
Olivier Besancenot is a French far left political figure and trade unionist, and the founding main spokesperson of the New Anticapitalist Party from 2009 to 2011....

Ligue communiste révolutionnaire
Revolutionary Communist League (France)
See Revolutionary Communist League for the other Ligue communiste révolutionnaire.The Revolutionary Communist League was a French democratic revolutionary socialist political party. It was the French section of the Fourth International...

4,91 % 4,08 %
Philippe de Villiers
Philippe de Villiers
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Mouvement pour la France 3,44 % 2,23 %
Frédéric Nihous
Frédéric Nihous
Frédéric Nihous is a French politician from the Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions party. He was a candidate for the 2007 French presidential election, but was eliminated in the first round of balloting...

Chasse, pêche, nature et traditions 2,21 % 1,15 %
José Bové
José Bové
Joseph Bové is a French farmer and syndicalist, member of the alter-globalization movement, and spokesman for Via Campesina. He was one of the twelve official candidates in the 2007 French presidential election...

Independent
Independent (politician)
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1,96 % 1,32 %
Dominique Voynet
Dominique Voynet
Dominique Voynet was a French senator for the département of Seine-Saint-Denis, the mayor of Montreuil and a member of The Greens.-Life:...

Les Verts 1,88 % 1,57 %
Arlette Laguiller
Arlette Laguiller
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Lutte ouvrière 1,72 % 1,33 %
Marie-George Buffet
Marie-George Buffet
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Popular and antiliberal left 0,57 % 1,93 %
Gérard Schivardi
Gérard Schivardi
Gérard Schivardi is a French politician. He contended in the French presidential election of 2007 under the colours of the Workers' Party of Trotskyist legacy. He came last in the first round of balloting on 22 April, obtaining 0.34% of the popular vote .-Biography:Schivardi was born in 1950 in...

National committee for the reconquest of public utilities 0,25 % 0,34 %


The participation rate was 87,25 % (national average 83,77 %) and spoilt vote represented 1,37 % of the votes (national average 1,44 %).
Second round :

The second round was held on 6 May 2007:
Party Results National average
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the 23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He assumed the office on 16 May 2007 after defeating the Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal 10 days earlier....

Union pour un mouvement populaire 51,86 % 53,06 %
Ségolène Royal
Ségolène Royal
Marie-Ségolène Royal , known as Ségolène Royal, is a French politician. She is the president of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, a former member of the National Assembly, a former government minister, and a prominent member of the French Socialist Party...

Parti socialiste 48,14 % 46,94 %



French legislative election of 2007

Joué-sur-Erdre is part of the Loire-Atlantique's 5th constituency
Loire-Atlantique's 5th constituency
The 5th constituency of Loire-Atlantique is a French legislative constituency in the Loire-Atlantique département.- 2007: -Sources:* Official results of French elections from 1998:...

.

During the second round Michel Ménard
Michel Ménard
Michel Ménard is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Loire-Atlantique department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-References:...

 was elected.
round
Candidate Party % Votes
Michel Ménard
Michel Ménard
Michel Ménard is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Loire-Atlantique department, and is a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.-References:...

PS 51,11 %
Robert Diat UMP 48,89 %

French municipal elections of 2008

Joué-sur-Erdre's population is between 1500 and 2500 inhabitants, thus they elect 19 counsellors
Municipal council
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.

The new mayor is Jean-Pierre Belleil.
First round :

The first round was on March 9, 2008:
List Votes
Christian Jadeau 553
Isabelle Rigaud 537
Hervé Lubert DVD 533

Second round :

The second round was held on March 16, 2008:
List Votes
Yves Boube 631
Christelle Fribourg 578
Jean-Pierre Belleil 566
Michel Jamet 559
Frédéric Simonneau 547
Yves Forget 542
Daniel Godard 538
Roselyne Voisin 536
Guy Petard 528
Hervé Ducleux 519
Sylvie Leray 512
Diana Praud 504
Vincent Martin 504
Olivier Blais 494
Yannick Rabin 489
Stanislas Hardy 479



List of mayors

Mayors
Term Name Political Party Notes
An IX - 1809 Eugène François Roussel
1810 - 1814 François Lecudon Notary.
1815 - December 13
December
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, 1820
Aimé-Désiré Anneau Notary. Dead on December 13, 1820, he was 38.
1821 - January
January
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 1833
François Priou Geometrician
February
February
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 1833 - August
August
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 1840
Jacques-Désiré Marbin
August
August
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 1840 - June
June
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 - 1844
Pierre Guillaume Louis Calice Châtelain
Châtelain
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 de l'Auvinière
November
November
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 1844 - September
September
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 1870
Marc Jacques Pierre Nouais
May
May
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 1871 - 1878
Jean-Baptiste Nouais
March
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....

 1878 - ?
> Amaury de Goyon Matignon de Marcé
|
Marquis. Mayor during 1881, 1886 and 1891 censuses.
? Mr Nouais Mayor during 1896 and 1901 censuses.
? Amaury de Goyon ? Marquis. Mayor during 1906 census and in 1918.
? ? ? ?
? - March
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....

 2001
Isabelle Le Gualès de Mézaubran
March
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....

 2001 - March
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....

 2008
Hervé Lubert DVD
March
March
March is in present time held to be the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of the seven months which are 31 days long....

 2008 - in office
Jean-Pierre Belleil Farmer


Environmental politics

The allée de Chênes ("alley of Oak
Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...

s") of the château de Lucinière, also called "la Grande Avenue", is a classified environmental site since February 9, 1949. It shelters tercentenaries oaks.

From 1836 to 1931

From 1836 to 1931, the population of Joué-sur-Erdre reached nearly 3,000 inhabitants with a maximum of 2,901 inhabitants in 1891. No data is available for the 1916 census.




From 1962 to present

The demographic evolution of Joué-sur-Erdre can be evaluated by the INSEE
INSEE
INSEE is the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies. It collects and publishes information on the French economy and society, carrying out the periodic national census. Located in Paris, it is the French branch of Eurostat, European Statistical System...

 only since 1962.
There are 669 households in Joué-sur-Erdre. The table below shows the size of these households.

Households
People : 1 person 2 people 3 p. 4 p. 5 p. 6 p. or +
Joué-sur-Erdre 29,9 % 32,3 % 13,6 % 14,1 % 8,1 % 2,1 %
National average 31 % 31,1 % 16,2 % 13,8 % 5,5 % 2,4 %
Sources des données : INSEE



The median income was € in 2004, which is below the national average of €.

Education

There are two schools in Joué-sur-Erdre : the École primaire privée Saint Louis de Gonzague and the École Roger et Renée Jolivot.

Housing

There are 863 housing units in Joué-sur-Erdre. Among these 77,5 % are main homes
.

Moreover 77,1 % of the households own their home.

Civil monuments

The castel of Vioreau ; built in 1202. It remains only ruins.

The château de Lucinière built in the 14th and 19th centuries. Its chapel, its orangery
Orangery
An orangery was a building in the grounds of fashionable residences from the 17th to the 19th centuries and given a classicising architectural form. The orangery was similar to a greenhouse or conservatory...

, its dining room and its internal decoration are historic monuments since December 9, 1985.

The castel of la Chauvelière, 17th and 19th centuries, used to be own by the Brittany chancellor.

Vestiges of the fountain Saint-Léger from 17th-18th centuries

The houses of workers (1717) are in La Vallée.

The city hall is located in an old presbytery built by Father Tiger in 1784. It is the city hall since 1987.

The Hôtel des trois rois where Kings slept, including François Ier (May 1532), Henri II
Henry II of France
Henry II was King of France from 31 March 1547 until his death in 1559.-Early years:Henry was born in the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, the son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany .His father was captured at the Battle of Pavia in 1525 by his sworn enemy,...

 (on 12 July 1551), Charles IX
Charles IX of France
Charles IX was King of France, ruling from 1560 until his death. His reign was dominated by the Wars of Religion. He is best known as king at the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.-Childhood:...

 and Catherine de Médicis (on 15 and 16 October 1565).

Religious monuments

There are two churches in Joué-sur-Erdre :
  • the église Saint-Léger of Joué built in 1883.
  • the église de Notre-Dame-des-Langueurs, (also called Notre-Dame de la Pitié) built in the beginning of the 20th century.


Heraldry

lign="center" style="padding:5px 8px;width:;"| The coat of arms of Joué-sur-Erdre is blazon
Blazon
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ned : D'or à la bande ondée d'azur.


Parks

Joué-sur-Erdre hosts two lacs, the lake Vioreau, and the « Little Vioreau » which regularize the water level of the Canal de Nantes à Brest
Canal de Nantes à Brest
The Nantes-Brest canal is a French canal which links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through inland Brittany. It was built during the 19th century and its total length is 385 km with 238 locks from coast to coast...

.

Sports and leisure activities

The lake Vioreau allows people to practice several sport activities such as water sports with the ASS Cercle de Voile de Vioreau.

External links

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