Ploumoguer

Ploumoguer (French pronunciation: [plumɔɡɛʁ]; Breton: Ploñger) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

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Commune
The town hall in Ploumoguer
Coat of arms
Location of Ploumoguer
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Coordinates: 48°24′12″N 4°43′19″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Brest
Canton	Saint-Renan
Intercommunality	Pays d'Iroise
Government
• Mayor (2022–2026)	Gisèle Cariou[1]
Area 1	38.93 km2 (15.03 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	2,097
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29201 /29810
Elevation	0–141 m (0–463 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Inhabitants of Ploumoguer are called in French Ploumoguérois.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,420 —     1821 1,820 +0.89% 1841 1,888 +0.18% 1861 1,904 +0.04% 1881 1,886 −0.05% 1901 1,890 +0.01% 1911 1,932 +0.22% 1926 1,856 −0.27% 1936 1,743 −0.63% 1946 1,742 −0.01%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1954 1,678 −0.47% 1962 1,562 −0.89% 1968 1,475 −0.95% 1975 1,361 −1.14% 1982 1,560 +1.97% 1990 1,602 +0.33% 1999 1,646 +0.30% 2007 1,880 +1.68% 2012 1,942 +0.65% 2017 2,063 +1.22%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968–2017)[4]

Notable people

• Jean Causeur – 1643–1771, butcher who was said to have lived to 131 years of age. Modern scrutiny of his birth records suggest that he was probably born in around 1665, making his age of death around 109 years, still an exceptional age for his time.^[5]
• Louis Marie Pellé – 1900-1944, born on November 18, 1900, in Ploumoguer, young tradesman and receiver of the PTT who has been shot by the Nazis at the age of 43. He had helped to hide fellow Jews in the countryside of northern Finistère, with the unofficial assistance of the gendarmes of Le Conquet.

See also

• Communes of the Finistère department