Issé

For other uses, see ISSE (disambiguation).

Issé (French pronunciation: [ise] ^ⓘ; Gallo: Isae, Breton: Izeg) is a commune on the banks of the river Don in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is situated 10 km southeast of Châteaubriant.

Issé Isae (Gallo) Izeg (Breton)
Commune
Old train station in the early 20th century
Coat of arms
Location of Issé
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Coordinates: 47°37′29″N 1°27′00″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Châteaubriant-Ancenis
Canton	Châteaubriant
Intercommunality	Châteaubriant-Derval
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Marc Lalloué[1]
Area 1	38.66 km2 (14.93 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	1,825
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	44075 /44520
Elevation	22–76 m (72–249 ft)
Website	www.isse.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,898	—
1975	1,909	+0.08%
1982	1,896	−0.10%
1990	1,821	−0.50%
1999	1,776	−0.28%
2007	1,815	+0.27%
2012	1,846	+0.34%
2017	1,833	−0.14%
Source: INSEE[3]

Transport

The train station reopened in 2014, serving tram-trains from the Pays de la Loire. The narrow gauge railway Issé–Abbaretz was an approximately 20 km (12 mi) long Decauville railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) between the open-cast iron ore mines near Le Houx and the railway stations of Issé and Abbaretz, which was mainly in operation 1913–1922 and 1928–1930.

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department