Le Saint Ar Sent
Commune
The town hall in Le Saint
Coat of arms
Location of Le Saint
Le Saint Show map of France Le Saint Show map of Brittany
Coordinates: 48°05′25″N 3°33′40″W / 48.0903°N 3.5611°W / 48.0903; -3.5611
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Pontivy
Canton	Gourin
Intercommunality	Roi Morvan Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jérôme Regnier[1]
Area 1	31.03 km2 (11.98 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	600
• Density	19/km2 (50/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56201 /56110
Elevation	73–223 m (240–732 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Saint (French pronunciation: [lə sɛ̃]; Breton: Ar Sent) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.^[3]

Breton language

The municipality launched a Breton linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 24 February 2005.

Population

The population has been divided by three since the first world war.

Geography

Le Saint is located in the northwestern part of Morbihan, 40 km (25 mi) north of Lorient. Historically, it belongs to Cornouaille. Le Saint is border by Gourin to the west and the north, by Langonnet and Le Faouët to the east and by Guiscriff to the south. The river Inam forms the commune's western border and the river Moulin du Duc forms the commune's eastern border. The two rivers meet at the southern end of the commune at a place called Pont Briand. Apart from the village centre there are about eighty hamlets.

Map

Topographic map.

List of places

History

The lords of Faouët, the Bouteville, lived in their castle in Le Saint in the fifteenth century.

Gallery

• 
  The church.
• 
  The chapel of Saint-Méen.
• 
  Fountain of Saint-Méen.
• 
  The chapel of Saint-Trémeur.
• 
  Oratory of Bouthiry.