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Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine

commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ669538 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Gilles (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒil] ; Breton: Sant-Jili-Roazhon; Gallo: Saent-Jill) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Gilles are called saint-gillois in French.

See also

Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

Emmanuel Guérin Sculptor of Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine war memorial

References

External links

Official website (in French)

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

Editorial summary

“Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine” enters the record as commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine and commune 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 66-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 Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine and commune.
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“Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine and commune provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q669538. VIAF identifies the subject as 890144783131426405098. Authority coordinates are 48.154, -1.826. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Gilles, Ille-et-Vilaine” 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.