Malesherbes, Loiret

Malesherbes
Part of Le Malesherbois
Castle of Malesherbes
Coat of arms
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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
Commune	Le Malesherbois
Area 1	17.61 km2 (6.80 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	6,047
• Density	340/km2 (890/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	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.

Malesherbes (French pronunciation: ​[malzɛʁb]) 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.^[2] It is 65 kilometers away from Orléans.

The terminus of the RER D is located in the commune.

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.
• Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault, Indologist, was born and died in Malesherbes.
• Le mathématicien Louis-Félix Painvin (1826-1875) est natif de Malesherbes. Agrégé de mathématiques en 1859, il a essentiellement professé au lycée de Douai. Plus tard, en 1872, il remplace Gaston Darboux au lycée Louis Le Grand. {{Voir Verdier Norbert, Le Journal de Liouville et la presse de son temps : une entreprise d’édition et de circulation des mathématiques au XIXe siècle (1824 – 1885), thèse de doctorat de l’université Paris-Sud 11, sous la direction de Hélène Gispert, 2009 (Chapitre 14)}}.

See also[]

• Communes of the Loiret department

References[]

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