Montrichard

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Coordinates: 47°20′37″N 1°11′03″E / 47.3436111111, 1.18416666667

Commune of Montrichard
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Centre
Department	Loir-et-Cher
Arrondissement	Blois
Canton	Montrichard
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Cher à la Loire
Mayor	Patrick Maupu (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	59 m–134 m (avg. 68 m)
Land area¹	14.36 km²
Population² (1999)	6,624
- Density	252/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	41151/ 41400
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.

Montrichard is a town and commune in the Loir-et-Cher département, in France.

Montrichard is a bustling market town on the Cher River between Blois and Tours. Montrichard is an ancient medieval village.

[edit] Sites and monuments

• Château de Montrichard, a medieaval castle.
• Nanteuil Church (12th, 13th, 15th centuries), whose statue of the Virgin Mary is the object of a very ancient pilgrimage on Whit Monday.
• Church of the Holy Cross (Église Ste-Croix) has a fine Romanesque doorway and was the site of Joan of France's marriage to the future king.
• Château de Pont-Cher, a 15th century home built into the cliff, containing the René Galloux collection of prehistric and Gallo-Roman artefacts from excavations in the Cher valley.^[1]

[edit] Personalities

• Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, married the future king of France Louis XII in Montrichard, though the marriage was latter annulled.
• André Alerme, a French actor who appeared in more than 70 films, died here in 1960.
• Paula Abagnale, mother of the renowned confidence man Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., was born in Montrichard^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] References

This article incorporates detail from the French Wikipedia article Montrichard, specifically from this version