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Malesherbes, Loiret

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Loiret

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Area
  
17.61 km²

Local time
  
Sunday 6:48 AM

Region
  
Centre-Val de Loire

Canton
  
Malesherbes

INSEE/Postal code
  
45191 /45330

Population
  
5,989 (1999)

Arrondissement
  
Pithiviers

Malesherbes, Loiret

Weather
  
10°C, Wind SW at 19 km/h, 95% Humidity

Malesherbes is a former commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Le Malesherbois. It is 65 kilometers away from Orleans.

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Map of Malesherbes, France

Famous people from the commune

  • Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794), magistrate, lawyer and French statesman. He lived in the Castle of Malesherbes.
  • Hilaire Étienne Lelièvre (1800-1851), Army officer in Africa, a street name has been dedicated to him.
  • Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault, Indologist, was born and died in Malesherbes
  • Jean Billard (1893-1968), French surgeon born in this commune.
  • Jacques Pilhan (1944-1998), French advertiser and political communication advisor for François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
  • Dominique Lacout, French philosopher and writer, born in 1949. He lived in the commune from 2000 to 2009.

    • References

    Malesherbes, Loiret Wikipedia
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