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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).
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The arrondissement of La Flèche was created in 1800. [4] 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.
Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire; Flèche (cycling), a team cycling competition;
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.
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. ...
Sketch showing the principle of a redan and flèche. A flèche (Fr. for "arrow") is an outwork consisting of two converging faces with a parapet and an open gorge, forming an arrowhead shape facing the enemy.
Fletcher is an Anglo-Norman surname of French, English, Scottish and Irish origin. The name is a regional and an occupational name for an arrowsmith (a maker and or seller of arrows), derived from the Old French flecher (in turn from Old French fleche "arrow"). [1]