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Laval is a relatively new foundation in comparison to other French cities. That is to say that the borough was not officially mentioned prior to the 11th century. According to legend glorifying the Counts of Laval, mediaeval chroniclers portrayed the citizens of Laval as being the offspring of Charles Martel's grandson Wala of Corbie.
It is located in the Mayenne department, in the Pays de la Loire region, western France. It was created in 2001 as the Communauté d'agglomération de Laval. It was merged with the former communauté de communes du Pays de Loiron to form the communauté d'agglomération Laval Agglomération on 1 January 2019. [1] Its area is 686.1 km 2. Its ...
Gilbert Chaussis, « Laval, de rue en rue », vol. 1, Laval, Siloë, 1991 Dominique Eraud, « Laval, Mayenne », Paris, Éd. du Patrimoine, 1990 Dominique Eraud, « Laval : le château : Mayenne / Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France, région des Pays de la Loire », Association pour le développement de ...
André de Laval-Montmorency (c. 1408 – 1485), Marshal of France; Louis de Laval (d. 1489), governor of Dauphiné, Champagne, Touraine and Genoa; Jeanne de Laval, Queen consort of Naples and Sicily; Jean de Laval, count of Châteaubriant and Governor of Brittany, who was married to Françoise de Foix
The arrondissement of Laval is an arrondissement of France in the Mayenne department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 34 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 114,674 (2021), and its area is 686.1 km 2 (264.9 sq mi).
Chomedey's city hall became the city hall for all of Laval. The merger project was first launched by the administration of the city of L'Abord à Plouffe. On August 10, 1960, it passed a resolution expressing its desire to merge the three municipalities and the city of Laval-des-Rapides, under the name "Cité de Laval". Renaud (Laval)
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Laval-sur-le-Lac (French pronunciation: [laval syʁ lə lak]) is a small sector on the western part of Laval and was a separate city until the municipal mergers on August 6, 1965. This community contains North America's oldest French speaking private golf club, Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac, established in 1917. [ 1 ]