{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Plougonver |native name = Plougonveur |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Plougonver eglise st pierre.jpg |caption = The church of St. Pierre |image coat of arms = Blason de la ville de Plougonver (Côtes-d'Armor).svg |coordinates = {{coord|48.4853|-3.3772|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |INSEE = 22216 |postal code = 22810 |arrondissement = Guingamp |canton = Callac |mayor = Christian Prigent<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020&ndash;2026 |intercommunality = [[Guingamp-Paimpol Agglomération]] |elevation min m = 142 |elevation max m = 320 |area km2 = 35.72 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Plougonver''' ({{IPA|fr|pluɡɔ̃vɛʁ}}; {{langx|br|Plougonveur}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Côtes-d'Armor]] [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] in northwestern [[France]].

On Sunday 13 September 1942 a British Royal Air Force Bristol Blenheim bomber sustained damage from German flak during an air raid on Morlaix, Brittany. The bomber crashed in flames near the village of Kergus, 1&nbsp;km south of Plougonver. Yvonne Coantiec, wife of Jean Coantiec the Mayor of Plougonver was told of the crash, attended the scene and assisted the crew, providing civilian clothes and shelter. The crew members eventually made good their escape to England via Nantes.

Yvonne Coantiec was questioned on several occasions by the Germans and was subsequently detained in St. Brieuc prison in March 1943 for assisting the airmen. She was transferred to Fresnes Prison south of Paris, then to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Northern Germany, and later to Mauthausen Labour Camp, Austria, infamous for its overcrowding and harsh regime. She died there in 1945, aged 45.

The Coantiec name lives on in Plougonver today. The Community Centre is named ''Jean Coantiec''.

==Population== {{Historical populations |source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-22216#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE</ref> |percentages = pagr |align = left |1968 |1374 |1975 |1155 |1982 |998 |1990 |868 |1999 |768 |2009 |709 |2014 |736 |2020 |743 }} Inhabitants of Plougonver are called ''plougonverois'' or ''plougonverrois'' in French.

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==See also== *[[Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department]]

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