Bouère () is a commune in the Mayenne department in northwestern France.
Geography Situated from Laval, from Angers, and from Le Mans in the southeast of today's Mayenne department, Bouère historically lay within the territories of Angevin Mayenne, which formed part of Anjou.
Local quarries supplied a proportion of the marble used in the construction of the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and Saint-Lazare railway station in Paris.
Administration List of successive mayors Beginning End Name 2008 2026 Jacky Chauveau 1978 2008 Claude Bucher 1906 Chemin 1896 Beauplet 1880 1896 Foucher 1870 1880 Bachlier 1855 1870 Sesboué 1850 Godivier 1840 Sesboué 1836 Tonnelier 1830 1836 Chamaret 1827 1830 Oger 1821 1824 Louis Joachim du Bois Jourdan 1801 1804 Tonnelier 1800 Jamin 1791 1795 René Sesboué
Population
Sights Romanesque church (11th/12th century restored in the 19th century) Communal cemetery (registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings) Votive vault 1871 Castle of Bois-Jourdan 16th/17th century and dependences Castle of the Vézousière 18th century Castle of Rochers 19th century Castle of the Sevaudière 19th century Castle of Daviers 19th century
Personalities Urbain Grandier
See also Communes of Mayenne
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