Malesherbes, Loiret

Malesherbes
Castle of Malesherbes
Coat of arms
Malesherbes
Location within Centre-Val de Loire region  Malesherbes
Coordinates: 48°17′42″N 2°24′54″E / 48.295°N 2.415°E / 48.295; 2.415Coordinates: 48°17′42″N 2°24′54″E / 48.295°N 2.415°E / 48.295; 2.415
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Loiret
Arrondissement	Pithiviers
Canton	Malesherbes
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Paul Sanchez
Area1	17.61 km2 (6.80 sq mi)
Population (2005)2	6,097
• Density	350/km2 (900/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	45191 /45330
Elevation	67–140 m (220–459 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.

Malesherbes is a former commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Le Malesherbois.^[1] It is 65 kilometers away from Orleans.

Famous people from the commune

• Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794), magistrate, lawyer and French statesman. He lived in the Castle of Malesherbes.
• Hilaire Étienne Lelièvre (1800-1851), Army officer in Africa, a street name has been dedicated to him.
• Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault, Indologist, was born and died in Malesherbes
• Jean Billard (1893-1968), French surgeon born in this commune.
• Jacques Pilhan (1944-1998), French advertiser and political communication advisor for François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac.
• Dominique Lacout, French philosopher and writer, born in 1949. He lived in the commune from 2000 to 2009.

See also

• Communes of the Loiret department

References

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