Brézé
# Brézé

Brézé (French pronunciation: (listen)) 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

| 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
