Bédée

Bédée (French pronunciation: [bede]; Breton: Bezeg; Gallo: Bedésc) is a commune in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany.

It is at 20 km to the northwest of Rennes and is surrounded by Montfort-sur-Meu, Iffendic, La Nouaye, Breteil, Pleumeleuc, Talensac, Saint-Gonlay.

Excavations have also been done and we found ceramics, vases, piece of pottery, and above all a statuette of a mother goddess in red terracotta in the village of la Métairie Neuve.

In 1122, Donoald, the bishop of Aleth gave the monks of Saint-Melaine de Rennes abbey the priory of Bédée which became then a parish.

The Lord Charles de Botherel, adviser in the Parliament of Brittany, proclaimed the town of Bédée independent in 1715.

The population of the town is in favour of the changes brought by the French Revolution, above all after the end of the reign of the Terror.

The major revolutionary event is the one celebrating the execution of Louis XVI, accompanied by a hatred oath to the royalty and to the anarchy.