Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Commune

The centre of Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Coat of arms

Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Location within Pays de la Loire region

Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Coordinates: 47°50′32″N 0°11′59″W / 47.8422°N 0.1997°WCoordinates: 47°50′32″N 0°11′59″W / 47.8422°N 0.1997°W

Country

Communauté de communes de Sablé-sur-Sarthe

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Michel Gendry

Area¹

38.99 km² (15.05 sq mi)

Population (2012)²

2,141

• Density

55/km² (140/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

72228 /72300

Elevation

26–57 m (85–187 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.

Parcé-sur-Sarthe is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

Personalities linked to the commune

François Villon (1431-1463), poet, briefly imprisoned there as testified by a plaque.
Claude Chappe (1763-1805), inventor of the semaphore telegraph. He made his first attempts passing messages between Brûlon and Parcé.
Joseph-René Verdier (born 1819 in Parcé-sur-Sarthe - 1904), watercolourist and student of Auguste and Rosa Bonheur. His works include Étang au crépuscule, Petite Fille jouant avec un chien et Un Matin dans la lande (Musée du Mans).
Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker, bought the Ignière mill in 1930, where he stayed, and which he sold twenty years later. Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier was partly filmed in the region.
François Dufeu (born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.

References

INSEE

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Personalities linked to the commune

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