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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.
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).
The construction of the royal college, drawing by Étienne Martellange in 1612.. On September 3, 1603, Henri IV signed the Edict of Rouen authorizing the return of the Jesuits to France and then decided to cede his “Château-Neuf” at La Flèche to the Jesuits so that they could establish a college. [1]
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 ...
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
The canton of La Flèche is an administrative division of the Sarthe department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.
Jean de la Flèche, also known as Jean de Beaugency, Seigneur de la Flèche (c. 1030 – {c. 1097) was an 11th-century nobleman. He was the son of Lancelin I de Beaugency [1] and Adelberg de Maine and was born about 1030 in La Flèche, Sarthe. [a] Jean's father Lancelin I, was the first lord of both Beaugency and La Flèche. On his death, the ...
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