Château-du-Loir

Château-du-Loir
The church of Saint-Guingalois
Château-du-Loir
Location within Pays de la Loire region  Château-du-Loir
Coordinates: 47°41′54″N 0°25′06″E / 47.6983°N 0.4183°E / 47.6983; 0.4183Coordinates: 47°41′54″N 0°25′06″E / 47.6983°N 0.4183°E / 47.6983; 0.4183
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Château-du-Loir
Area1	11.46 km2 (4.42 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	4,693
• Density	410/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	72071 /72500
Elevation	44–131 m (144–430 ft) (avg. 101 m or 331 ft)
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.

Château-du-Loir is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir.^[1]

Notable people

• Gervais II, lord of Château-du-Loir
• Cécile Didier (1888–1975), stage and film actress
• Guillaume des Roches (1165 - 1222), lord of Longué-Jumelles and Château-du-Loir, comrade in arms of Philippe Auguste
• Saint Siméon-François Berneux (1814 - 1866), one of the Korean Martyrs
• Pierre Loutrel (1916 - 1946), bandit

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department

References

• INSEE

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Château-du-Loir.

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