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Parcé sur Sarthe

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Sarthe

Canton
  
Sablé-sur-Sarthe

Region
  
Pays de la Loire

Arrondissement
  
La Flèche

Area
  
40.58 km²

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Intercommunality
  
Communauté de communes de Sablé-sur-Sarthe

Parc sur sarthe rencontre avec trois jeunes photographes


Parcé-sur-Sarthe is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

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Map of 72300 Parc%C3%A9-sur-Sarthe, France

Personalities linked to the commune

  • François Villon (1431-1463), poet, briefly imprisoned there as testified by a plaque.
  • Claude Chappe (1763-1805), inventor of the semaphore telegraph. He made his first attempts passing messages between Brûlon and Parcé.
  • Joseph-René Verdier (born 1819 in Parcé-sur-Sarthe - 1904), watercolourist and student of Auguste and Rosa Bonheur. His works include Étang au crépuscule, Petite Fille jouant avec un chien et Un Matin dans la lande (Musée du Mans).
  • Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker, bought the Ignière mill in 1930, where he stayed, and which he sold twenty years later. Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier was partly filmed in the region.
  • François Dufeu (born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.

    • References

    Parcé-sur-Sarthe Wikipedia
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