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Step 1: The Laignelet church
The Laignelet church is dedicated to Saint-Martin. Built in 1888, it was the first hall church of the architect Louis Hérault. Note the mosaic Lamb of God on the tympanum. Observe the cross in the square, it is one of the largest in the department.
Step 2: Anne Boivent
Anne Boivent (1787-1865), founder of the important congregation of the Sisters of Rillé in Fougères, lived from 1823 to 1833 in Laignelet in a house still visible near the church. A teacher then a nun, it was here that she surrounded herself with young girls to create the religious community.
Step 3: Friends of the Glassmakers
In their workshop at 11 chemin du Picrot, come and meet the Friends of the glassmakers who work to safeguard the memory and glassmaking heritage, by producing exhibitions and demonstrations of making beads with a blowtorch, engraving on an atypical plate and sandblasting on glass. Visits by reservation.
Step 4: The Fougères forest
Laignelet has always been linked to the Fougères forest. Since the Middle Ages, multiple activities have been associated with it: breeding, hunting and above all exploitation of the wood which supplied the numerous construction sites in Fougères. The Hellonière glassworks and the manufacture of clogs remain the most significant.
Step 5: The Hellonière glassworks
The Hellonière glassworks was among the most important glassworks in Brittany. Created in 1646 south of the Fougères forest, it manufactures drinking glasses, flasks and laboratory items. At the beginning of the 20th century, its director, open to social ideas, created a model of a workers' city to organize the lives of 400 workers and their families from birth to death. The site closed its doors in 1934. Only the workers' housing, disused finishing and packaging workshops, chapel and glassmakers' swimming pool were able to be preserved. (Information panels on site)
Step 6: The remarkable panorama
The path opens onto a remarkable panorama of the rural landscapes of the Fougeraise agglomeration up to the plateau of the Vitré region. Find the Aumailrie activity zone, the headframe of the old Montbelleux mine and the Saint-Léonard de Fougères church.
