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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).
In 1611, the Féron de Longuemézière was discharged from the work, and the church construction site was put on hold. [4] The following year, Father Étienne Martellange was sent to La Flèche by Marie de Médicis [5] to oversee the completion of the church, whose expenses were paid from the royal treasury. [6]
Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire; Flèche (cycling), a team cycling competition;
The origin of the name La Flèche is uncertain; the word flèche means "arrow" in French. Historian Jacques Termeau, in La Flèche Book No. 9, p. 5-11, has documented several hypotheses which most likely are related to the ancient Latin name Fixa meaning "stuck", that is to say "rock stuck in the ground". In fact La Flèche was a city situated ...
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
Flèche of Sainte-Chapelle, Île de la Cité, designed by Jean-Baptiste Lassus. [1] Two pictures of Notre-Dame de Paris with its 19th century flèche, lost to fire in 2019. Flèche of St Michael's Castle, St Petersburg, designed by Vasily Bazhenov. [2]
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The arrondissement of La Flèche is an arrondissement of France in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 118 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 148,804 (2021), and its area is 2,521.4 km 2 (973.5 sq mi).