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Bourgbarré

commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1011061 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bourgbarré (French pronunciation: [buʁbaʁe]; Breton: Bourvarred; Gallo: Bórg-Baraé) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Bourgbarré are called Bourgbarréens in French.

See also

Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

External links

Official website (in French)

Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture.

Editorial summary

“Bourgbarré” enters the record as commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bourgbarré, commune and Ille-et-Vilaine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 56-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 strongest next move is a source search built around Bourgbarré, commune and Ille-et-Vilaine.
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Why this record matters

“Bourgbarré” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bourgbarré, commune and Ille-et-Vilaine provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1011061. Authority coordinates are 47.994, -1.615. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bourgbarré” 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.