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La Flèche was established shortly after the year 1000 and rapidly acquired a prominent position. In 1051, [cf 4] Jean de Beaugency, the younger son of Lancelin I, the lord of Beaugency, and Paula du Maine, the youngest daughter of Count Herbert I Wake-Dog, [9] sought a location in which to construct a castle within his domain of Fissa (fiscal land).
La Flèche (French pronunciation: [la flɛʃ] ⓘ) is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley. It is the sub-prefecture of the South-Sarthe, the chief district and the chief city of a canton, and the second most populous city of the department.
Construction of the church, directed by Jacques le Féron de Longuemézière, [4] began in 1607, to plans drawn up by Louis Métezeau, the king's architect. The foundation stone was laid in the crypt by Jean de Beaumanoir , marshal of Lavardin, and blessed by the parish priest of Saint-Thomas church in La Flèche.
Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire; Flèche (cycling), a team cycling competition; Flèche (fencing), an aggressive offensive fencing technique; Flèche (fortification), a defensive work; HMS Fleche, ships of the Royal Navy
Lafleche or La Fleche (French: La Flèche, The Arrow) may refer to: Laflèche (surname), a surname; La Flèche (chicken), a chicken breed; La Fleche (horse) (1889–1916), a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare; La Flèche Wallonne, a cycle road race in Belgium; Collège Laflèche, a private college in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Model of the flèche of Notre-Dame de Paris made for Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1859) (Museum of Historic Monuments, Paris) A flèche (French:; French for 'arrow') [3] is the name given to spires in Gothic architecture.
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In February 2006 it absorbed the five cantons of La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, Château-du-Loir, Le Grand-Lucé, Loué and La Suze-sur-Sarthe from the arrondissement of Le Mans. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the ...