Langeais

Langeais
Langeais
Commune
	Château de Langeais
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 47°19′36″N 0°24′25″E / 47.3267°N 0.4069°ECoordinates: 47°19′36″N 0°24′25″E / 47.3267°N 0.4069°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chinon
Canton	Langeais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre-Alain Roiron
Area 1	64.55 km2 (24.92 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	4,560
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37123 /37130
Elevation	36–109 m (118–358 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Langeais (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ʒɛ] (listen)) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Les Essards was merged into Langeais.^[2]

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	2,216	—
1800	2,205	−0.5%
1806	2,239	+1.5%
1821	2,499	+11.6%
1831	2,840	+13.6%
1836	3,057	+7.6%
1841	3,138	+2.6%
1846	3,565	+13.6%
1851	3,307	−7.2%
1856	3,234	−2.2%
1861	3,381	+4.5%
1866	3,604	+6.6%
1872	3,450	−4.3%
1876	3,463	+0.4%
1881	3,517	+1.6%
1886	3,446	−2.0%
1891	3,365	−2.4%
1896	3,309	−1.7%

Year	Pop.	±%
1901	3,371	+1.9%
1906	3,550	+5.3%
1911	3,467	−2.3%
1921	3,441	−0.7%
1926	3,450	+0.3%
1931	3,455	+0.1%
1936	3,400	−1.6%
1946	3,511	+3.3%
1954	3,652	+4.0%
1962	3,849	+5.4%
1968	3,907	+1.5%
1975	3,902	−0.1%
1982	4,142	+6.2%
1990	3,960	−4.4%
1999	3,865	−2.4%
2006	3,861	−0.1%
2009	4,011	+3.9%

Sights[]

Langeais has a church of the 11th, 12th and 15th centuries, but is chiefly interesting for its large and historic château built soon after the middle of the 15th century by , minister of Louis XI. Here the marriage of Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany took place in 1491. In the park, are the ruins of a keep of late 10th century architecture, built by Fulk Nerra (Black Hawk in old French), count of Anjou.^[3]