Les Ponts-de-Cé
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Commune of Les Ponts-de-Cé |
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| Location | |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Department | Maine-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Angers |
| Canton | Les Ponts-de-Cé |
| Intercommunality | C.A. d'Angers Loire Métropole
Pays Loire-Angers |
| Mayor | Pierre-André Ferrand (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 15 m–36 m (avg. 26 m) |
| Land area¹ | 19.55 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
12,038 |
| - Density | 582/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 49246/ 49130 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Les Ponts-de-Cé is a town and commune 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
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In September 1432, during the Hundred Years' War, the routiers of Rodrigo de Villandrando, in the pay of Georges de la Trémoille, held Les Ponts-de-Cé against the assaults of Jean de Bueil.
In August 1620, a battle in Les Ponts-de-Cé definitely ended a civil war, waged by Marie de Médicis. Her troops were 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).
All these names contain the Celtic root "SEA", which has the same meaning as 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".
