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Beauvoir-sur-Mer

commune in Vendée, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ1023635 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beauvoir-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [bovwaʁ syʁ mɛʁ], literally Beauvoir on Sea) is a commune in the Vendée department in the administrative region of the Pays de la Loire, France.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Beauvoir-sur-Mer” as commune in Vendée, France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Beauvoir-sur-Mer, commune and Vendée.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Beauvoir-sur-Mer, commune and Vendée providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Beauvoir-sur-Mer”, the useful work is to connect “commune in Vendée, France” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023635. VIAF identifies the subject as 138466350. The Library of Congress control number is n87110374. Authority coordinates are 46.916, -2.043. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beauvoir-sur-Mer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.