La Guerche

La Guerche
La Guerche
Commune
	Chateau
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 46°53′09″N 0°43′54″E / 46.8858°N 0.7317°ECoordinates: 46°53′09″N 0°43′54″E / 46.8858°N 0.7317°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Loches
Canton	Descartes
Intercommunality	CC Loches Sud Touraine
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Franck Hidalgo
Area 1	5.27 km2 (2.03 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	177
• Density	34/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37114 /37350
Elevation	43–67 m (141–220 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Guerche (French pronunciation: [la ɡɛʁʃ] (listen)) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

Population[]

People from La Guerche are called Guerchois.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	593	—
1800	489	−17.5%
1806	487	−0.4%
1821	550	+12.9%
1831	540	−1.8%
1836	544	+0.7%
1841	542	−0.4%
1846	545	+0.6%
1851	526	−3.5%
1856	528	+0.4%
1861	513	−2.8%
1866	518	+1.0%
1872	447	−13.7%
1876	464	+3.8%
1881	459	−1.1%
1886	486	+5.9%
1891	446	−8.2%
1896	400	−10.3%

Year	Pop.	±%
1901	360	−10.0%
1906	360	+0.0%
1911	373	+3.6%
1921	342	−8.3%
1926	326	−4.7%
1931	341	+4.6%
1936	330	−3.2%
1946	312	−5.5%
1954	309	−1.0%
1962	302	−2.3%
1968	295	−2.3%
1975	258	−12.5%
1982	265	+2.7%
1990	237	−10.6%
1999	229	−3.4%
2006	213	−7.0%
2009	206	−3.3%

Popular culture[]

Louis Amédée Achard, an author created a character called Monsieur of La Guerche, who was the titular protagonist of Les chevauchées de M. de la Guerche.

References[]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.