Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Parcé-sur-Sarthe
Parcé-sur-Sarthe
Commune
	The centre of Parcé-sur-Sarthe
	Coat of arms
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	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
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Gendry
Area 1	38.99 km2 (15.05 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	2,094
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Parcéen, Parcéenne
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

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.
(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. was partly filmed in the region.
(born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.

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

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