Parcé-sur-Sarthe
| Parcé-sur-Sarthe | |
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  Parcé-sur-Sarthe | |
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Location within Pays de la Loire region  Parcé-sur-Sarthe | |
| Coordinates: 47°50′32″N 0°11′59″W / 47.8422°N 0.1997°WCoordinates: 47°50′32″N 0°11′59″W / 47.8422°N 0.1997°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Department | Sarthe |
| Arrondissement | La Flèche |
| Canton | Sablé-sur-Sarthe |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Sablé-sur-Sarthe |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Michel Gendry |
| Area1 | 38.99 km2 (15.05 sq mi) |
| Population (2012)2 | 2,141 |
| • Density | 55/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 72228 / 72300 |
| Elevation | 26–57 m (85–187 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Parcé-sur-Sarthe is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western 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.
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