Lamballe

Lamballe
local community	Lamballe armor
region	Brittany
Department	Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Saint-Brieuc
Coordinates	48 ° 28 ′ N , 2 ° 31 ′ W Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ N , 2 ° 31 ′ W
Post Code	22400
Former INSEE code	22093
Incorporation	1st January 2019
Website	http://www.mairie-lamballe.fr/
	; Mathurin Méheut Museum

Lamballe ( Lambal on Breton , Lanball on Gallo ) is a former French commune nouvelle with last 13,441 inhabitants (2016) in Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany . It belonged to the arrondissement of Saint-Brieuc and the canton of Lamballe .

Effective January 1, 2019, Lamballe was merged with the former municipalities of Morieux and Planguenoual , thereby forming a new Commune nouvelle with the name Lamballe-Armor . All former parishes received the status of a Commune déléguée in the new parish . The administrative headquarters are in Lamballe.

The site is home to the Haras national de Lamballe stud , which specializes in breeding horses of a Breton type, and the Mathurin-Méheut museum about the painter Mathurin Méheut .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008	2016
Residents	8800	9124	9330	9452	9894	10,563	11,705	13,441
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Architectural monuments

See: List of Monuments historiques in Lamballe

Personalities

Jean IV. De Brosse († 1564)
Marie-Louise of Savoyen-Carignan , Princess of Lamballe (1749–1792), known as "Madame de Lamballe"
Alexandre Glais-Bizoin (1800–1877), politician
Gustave Téry (1870–1928), journalist and writer
Louis Deschamps (1878–1925), politician
Mathurin Méheut (1882–1958), painter
Mongo Beti (1932-2001), writer
Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006); his ancestors came from Lamballe

Web links

Commons : Lamballe - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Decree of the prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Lamballe-Armor in RAA Spécial No. 89 of October 31, 2018.
↑ Philippe Gloaguen, et al .: Le Routard - Le guide de la visite d'entreprise . No. 79/0425/0 . Hachette Livre, Vanves 2016, ISBN 978-2-01-323703-1 , pp. 69 .

[1] Decree of the prefecture on the formation of the Commune nouvelle Lamballe-Armor in RAA Spécial No. 89 of October 31, 2018.

[2] Philippe Gloaguen, et al .: Le Routard - Le guide de la visite d'entreprise . No. 79/0425/0 . Hachette Livre, Vanves 2016, ISBN 978-2-01-323703-1 , pp. 69 .