Rezé

Rezé
Rezé
Commune
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	Coordinates: 47°11′00″N 1°33′00″W / 47.1833°N 1.55°WCoordinates: 47°11′00″N 1°33′00″W / 47.1833°N 1.55°W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Nantes
Canton	Rezé-1 and 2
Intercommunality	Nantes Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Hervé Neau
Area 1	13.78 km2 (5.32 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	42,368
• Density	3,100/km2 (8,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44143 /44400
Elevation	1–42 m (3.3–137.8 ft) ; (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Rezé (French: [ʁəze] (listen); 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 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 tribe - Armorican Gauls - Rezé was an important port on the south shore of the Loire and a place for meetings and trade between the various Celtic tribes of the region (Veneti, Namnetes, , and 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 the feudal age, it was the capital of the Pays de Retz within the Duchy of Brittany.

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.

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 show
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)
May 1908-May 1929	Jean Baptiste Vigier (1863–1940)	Republican	Conseiller d'arrondissement
May 1929-May 1935	Charles Rivière (1870–1947)
May 1935-December 1936	Léon Taugeron (1886–1961)
December 1936-March 1941	Jean Vignais (1878–1954)
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	(1938- )	PS	Deputy
1999–2014	Gilles Retière	PS
2014–2020	Gérard Allard	PS
2020–incumbent	Hervé Neau	DVG
Sources: Yann Vince, "Rezé, histoire municipale" éditions Hérault, 1997 and Annuaire-Mairie^[2]

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
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	Pop.	±% p.a.
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:

Saint-Wendel (Germany) since 1973
Aïn Defla (Algeria) since 1985
Dundalk (Ireland) since 1990
Villa El Salvador (Peru) since 1991
Ineu (Romania) since 2003
Rural Community of Ronkh, Diawar (Senegal) since 2003
Abu Dis (Palestine) since 2007^[5]

References[]

^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Ville de Rezé, annuaire-mairie.fr, accessed 17 May 2021
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Rezé, EHESS. (in French)
^ INSEE: Population en historique depuis 1968
^ Reze Website [1].

External links[]

Official website (in French)
GCatholic - former bishopric
Nouveau Larousse Illustré

[1] "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.

[2] Ville de Rezé, annuaire-mairie.fr, accessed 17 May 2021

[3] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Rezé, EHESS. (in French)

[4] INSEE: Population en historique depuis 1968

[5] Reze Website [1].

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