Les Ponts-de-Cé

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Les Ponts-de-Cé is a city in France in the département of Maine-et-Loire, 190 miles south-west of Paris. Les Ponts-de-Cé is in the suburbs of Angers.

It had 11.387 inhabitants in 1999.

[edit] History

In august 1620, there is in Les Ponts-de-Cé a battle which definitely ends a civil war, waged in 1620 by Marie de Médicis. Her troops are defeated by her son, the French King Louis XIII.

This short rebellion subdued easily by the King's troops is known in France under the name of "Drôlerie des Ponts-de-Cé" (Les Ponts-de-Cé's joke)

[edit] Names

In the past, Les Ponts-de-Cé had known many different names, which are :

   * CASTRO-SEIO (889)
   * PON SIGEI (1009)
   * IN SAIACO (1036)
   * SAIACUS (1090)
   * SEIUM (1104)
   * PONS SAGEI (1115)
   * PONS SAGII (1148)
   * PONS SAEII (1291)
   * LE PONT DE SAE (1293)
   * LES PONTS DE SEE (1529).

Please note that in all these names, there is the celtic root "SEA", which has the same meaning in English.[citation needed] Indeed, the city has the characteristic of being spanned by many bridges which connect the various zones and roads of the city between them. This is also why the french meaning could be translated by "Cé's bridges".

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