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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.
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]
Flèche or Fleche may refer to: Flèche (architecture), a type of church spire; Flèche (cycling), a team cycling competition;
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
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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).
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. Its seat is in La Flèche. [1] It consists of the following communes: [1]