Parcé-sur-Sarthe
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Parcé-sur-Sarthe
|commune status = Commune
|image = Parcé-sur-Sarthe - Bourg (2011).jpg
|caption = The centre of Parcé-sur-Sarthe
|image coat of arms = Blason de la ville de Parcé-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe).svg
|arrondissement = La Flèche
|canton = Sablé-sur-Sarthe
|INSEE = 72228
|postal code = 72300
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Sablé-sur-Sarthe
|coordinates = {{coord|47.8422|-0.1997|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m = 26
|elevation max m = 57
|area km2 = 38.99
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
|demonym = Parcéen, Parcéenne
|website =
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Parcé-sur-Sarthe ({{IPA|fr|paʁse syʁ saʁt}}, literally Parcé on Sarthe) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-72228#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |1160
|1975 |1190
|1982 |1432
|1990 |1640
|1999 |1810
|2007 |2023
|2012 |2141
|2017 |2100
}}
Personalities linked to the commune
- François Villon (1431-1463), poet, briefly imprisoned there as testified by a plaque.
- Claude Chappe (1763-1805), inventor of the semaphore telegraph. He made his first attempts passing messages between Brûlon and Parcé.
- Joseph-René Verdier (born 1819 in Parcé-sur-Sarthe - 1904), watercolourist and student of Auguste and Rosa Bonheur. His works include Étang au crépuscule, Petite Fille jouant avec un chien et Un Matin dans la lande (Musée du Mans).
- Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker, bought the Ignière mill in 1930, where he stayed, and which he sold twenty years later. Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier was partly filmed in the region.
- François Dufeu (born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.
See also
References
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{{Sarthe communes}}
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