Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Parcé-sur-Sarthe
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	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Michel Gendry
Area^1	38.99 km^2 (15.05 sq mi)
Population (2012)^2	2,141
• Density	55/km^2 (140/sq mi)
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.

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department

References

• INSEE