The evolution of Caudan

Rural, Caudan is one of the oldest parishes of the Diocese of Vannes. Before the dismemberment of part of its territory for the benefit of Saint-Caradec Hennebont, it was also one of the largest. In 1909, it also lost its southern part during the creation of the municipality of Lanester. Bordered by the Blavet and Scorff estuaries, this area, close to Lorient, became urbanized after the establishment around 1703 of the shipyards of the Compagnie des Indes de Lorient on the right bank of the Scorff. Caudan then loses more than half of its population to form the commune of Lanester.