Jean Louis Conneau (flying as "Andre Beaumont") had landed his Bleriot XI at Loches, a little further than halfway to the first destination, for engine maintenance, then crashed there on takeoff.
Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family.
The pope settled a dispute over the abbey's consecration with the Archbishop of Tours by himself sending a legate to consecrate it.
While fighting against the Bretons and Blesevins, protecting his territory from Vendôme to Angers and from there to Montrichard, he had more than a hundred castles, donjons, and abbeys constructed, including those at Château-Gontier, Loches (a stone keep), and Montbazon.