Brézé (French pronunciation: [bʁeze] ) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Bellevigne-les-Châteaux. The Château de Brézé is a small, dry-moated castle.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 880 —     1800 978 +11.1% 1806 1,021 +4.4% 1821 1,003 −1.8% 1831 983 −2.0% 1836 964 −1.9% 1841 999 +3.6% 1846 932 −6.7% 1851 936 +0.4% 1856 911 −2.7% 1861 911 +0.0% 1866 869 −4.6% 1872 854 −1.7% 1876 871 +2.0% 1881 878 +0.8% 1886 877 −0.1% 1891 895 +2.1% 1896 865 −3.4%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 863 −0.2% 1906 883 +2.3% 1911 862 −2.4% 1921 722 −16.2% 1926 714 −1.1% 1931 695 −2.7% 1936 680 −2.2% 1946 682 +0.3% 1954 748 +9.7% 1962 848 +13.4% 1968 841 −0.8% 1975 877 +4.3% 1982 1,207 +37.6% 1990 1,379 +14.3% 1999 1,300 −5.7% 2006 1,317 +1.3% 2009 1,316 −0.1%

Personalities

• Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé, born here in 1628, Princess of Condé

See also

• Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department