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14 unusual facts about Sarthe


Arnage

Arnage, Sarthe, a commune of the Sarthe département in France

Château de Boisclaireau

Château de Boisclaireau was the residence of the noble Gueroust family, who were the Counts of Boisclaireau, in Teillé, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France.

Chenu

Chenu, Sarthe, a commune of the Sarthe département, in France

Circuit de la Sarthe

The track, which basically was a triangle from Le Mans down south to Mulsanne, northwest to Arnage, and back north to Le Mans, has undergone many modifications over the years, with CIRCUIT N° 14 being in use since 2007.

François-Pierre Cherrier

He was born in Savigné-l’Évêque in Sarthe, the son of François Cherrier and Périnne Isambart, and came to Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil in New France, where his uncle was parish priest, in 1736.

Henry de Beaumont

, (d. after 1 September 1297) who was in right of his wife Agnés de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine and Seigneur of Beaumont-le-Vicomte (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Sainte-Suzanne, la Fleche, Fresnay, le Lude, etc.

Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac

He had announced his intention of retiring from political life when he died at his country-seat near Flée (Sarthe) on September 25, 1905.

Jean Rondeau

Jean Rondeau (Le Mans, France, 13 May 1946 – Champagné, France, 27 December 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.

Rondeau was killed when his car was hit by a train outside Champagné.

John II, Count of Soissons

Matilda was the widow of Richard II, the viscount of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe.

LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire

After a connection north of Le Mans, the LGV will dip towards the southwest with a connection to the regular Le Mans-Angers line near Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Sarthe

Marin Mersenne, perhaps the most important scientific figure in the early 1600s, was born in the vicinity of Sarthe.

Solesmes Abbey

Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.

Sonya Butt

On 28 May 1944, Sonya was parachuted into the department of the Sarthe in the area of Le Mans to work as a Courier, under the codename "Blanche".


1966 24 Hours of Le Mans

Ford sent no less than eight Mark II to La Sarthe, entered by three teams: Shelby, Holman & Moody and Alan Mann Racing.

Alfred Léon Gérault-Richard

Alfred Léon Gérault (1860–1911), known as Gérault-Richard, was a French journalist and socialist politician, born at Bonnétable (in the départment of Sarthe) of a peasant family.

Auguste Chaillou

Auguste Chaillou (August 21, 1866 – April 23, 1915) was a French biologist and physician born in Parennes in the department of Sarthe.

Ebernhahn

Since 1973, there has existed a partnership between Ebernhahn and the French community of Marolles-les-Braults in the department of Sarthe.

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

La Chapelle-Huon

It is the department of Sarthe, which is since 1790 the eastern part of the former province of Maine.

Perche

The greater part of the district is occupied by a semicircle of heights (from 650 to 1000 ft. in height) stretching from Moulins-la-Marche on the northwest to Montmirail on the south; within the basin formed thereby the shape of which is defined by the Huisne, an affluent of the Sarthe, lie the chief towns of Mortagne-au-Perche, Nogent-le-Rotrou and Bellême.

Phạm Duy Khiêm

Phạm Duy Khiêm (Hanoi, 24 April 1908 – Montreuil-le-Henri, Sarthe, 2 December 1974) was a Vietnamese writer, academic and South Vietnam ambassador in France.

He committed suicide on December 2, 1974 at his home in Montreuil-le-Henri, Sarthe.

Solesmes

Solesmes Abbey, also known as St. Peter's Abbey, in the Sarthe department