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Le Perche
Perche () (French: ''le Perche'') is a former province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries, for the Percheron draft horse breed. Until the French Revolution, Perche was bounded by four ancient territories of northwestern France: the provinces of Maine, Normandy, and Orléanais, and the region of Beauce. Afterwards it was absorbed into the present-day departments of Orne and Eure-et-Loir, with small parts in the neighboring departments of Eure, Loir-et-Cher, and Sarthe. Toponymy ''Perche'' is known by the following ancient Latin and French toponymic designations: ''saltus Particus'', ''silva Perticus'' before the 6th century, ''pagus quem Pert cnsem vocant'' and ''pagus pertensis'' in the 6th century, ''pagus Perticus'' no date and c. 815, ''Particus saltus'' in the 11th century, ''silva Perticus'' in 1045, '' ePerche'' in 1160 - 1174 and in 1308, ''Perche'' in1238, ''foresta de Pertico'' in1246,Nègre, Ernest (1990). ''Toponymie génér ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellême Vu Du Ciel
Bellême () is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. The musicologist Guillaume André Villoteau (1759–1839) was born in Bellême, as was Aristide Boucicaut (1810-1877), owner of ''Le'' ''Bon Marché'', the world's first department store''.'' This town is possibly the origin of the English and French surname Bellamy''. Location At the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional du Perche, in the Orne Department, Bellême is on a hill that dominates the Perche area. Population Heraldry Sights * Church of Saint-Sauveur 15th century, 16th century, rebuilt between 1675 and 1710. * Crypt of the Saint-Santin Chapel, dating from the tenth century. * Château gatehouse 15th century, and moat. * Remains of the ramparts, bearing a plaque commemorating the capture of the château and the town by King Saint Louis and his mother, Blanche of Castile in 1229. * 17th century and eighteenth century houses. * 17th century Hôtel de ville. * Sundials on rue du Château, place de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarthe
Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the ''Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It had a population of 566,412 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 72 Sarthe INSEE History In the late 18th century, before it was officially Sarthe, the nobility built their Mansions and Chateaux there, as an escape from Paris. The department was created during the on 4 March 1790, pursuant to the law of 22 December 1789, starting from a part of the |
Pervenchères
Pervenchères () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Orne {{Orne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montmirail, Sarthe
Montmirail () is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Sarthe department * Perche Perche () (French: ''le Perche'') is a former province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries, for the Percheron draft horse breed. Until the French Revolution, Perche was bounded by four ancient territorie ... References Communes of Sarthe Perche {{Sarthe-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moulins-la-Marche
Moulins-la-Marche is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 385 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Moulinslamarche {{Orne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarthe River
The Sarthe () is a river in western France. Together with the river Mayenne it forms the river Maine, which is a tributary to the river Loire. Its source is in the Orne department, near Moulins-la-Marche. It flows generally southwest, through the following departments and towns: *Orne: Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe, Alençon *Sarthe: Fresnay-sur-Sarthe, Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Le Mans, Sablé-sur-Sarthe *Maine-et-Loire: Châteauneuf-sur-Sarthe, Tiercé, Angers Its main tributaries are the Loir and the Huisne from the left, and the Vaige, the Erve and the Vègre The Vègre () is an long river in the Sarthe department in western France. Its source is near Rouessé-Vassé. It flows generally south. It is a right tributary of the Sarthe Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loi ... from the right. Navigation The Sarthe has 20 weirs and locks. The channel is well marked and navigation is straightforward, except for the risk of shoals in certain sections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huisne
The Huisne () is a long river in France. It is a left tributary of the river Sarthe, which it meets in Le Mans. Its source is near the town of Pervenchères, in the Orne department. The Huisne flows through the following departments and towns: *Orne: Saint-Jouin-de-Blavou, Rémalard, Condé-sur-Huisne, Le Theil *Eure-et-Loir: Nogent-le-Rotrou *Sarthe: La Ferté-Bernard, Montfort-le-Gesnois, Le Mans Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ... References Rivers of France Rivers of Eure-et-Loir Rivers of Orne Rivers of Sarthe Rivers of Centre-Val de Loire Rivers of Normandy Rivers of Pays de la Loire {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and the Channel Islands (mostly the British Crown Dependencies). It covers . Its population is 3,499,280. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans, and the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Caen, Le Havre and Cherbourg. The cultural region of Normandy is roughly similar to the historical Duchy of Normandy, which includes small areas now part of the departments of Mayenne and Sarthe. The Channel Islands (French: ''Îles Anglo-Normandes'') are also historically part of Normandy; they cover and comprise two bailiwicks: Guernsey and Jersey, which are B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pagus
In ancient Rome, the Latin word (plural ) was an administrative term designating a rural subdivision of a tribal territory, which included individual farms, villages (), and strongholds () serving as refuges, as well as an early medieval geographical term. From the reign of Diocletian (284–305 AD) onwards, the referred to the smallest administrative unit of a province. These geographical units were used to describe territories in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods, without any political or administrative meaning. Etymology is a native Latin word from a root , a lengthened grade of Indo-European , a verbal root, "fasten" (''pango''); it may be translated in the word as "boundary staked out on the ground". In semantics, used in is a stative verb with an unmarked lexical aspect of state resulting from completed action: "it is having been staked out", converted into a noun by , a type recognizable in English adjectives such as surveyed, defined, noted, etc. English doe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Toubert
Pierre Toubert (born 29 November 1932) is a French historian. He is a professor of medieval history at the University of Paris and the Collège de France. Focusing on medieval history, his most monumental work is ''Les structures du Latium médiéval : Le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle'' (1973), in which he outlines an influential, in-depth study of ''incastellamento'' (in English, encastellation) in the Lazio region of Italy. Early life Pierre Toubert was born on 29 November 1932. He earned the agrégation in history and graduated from the École normale supérieure in 1958. He earned a PhD in 1972. Career Toubert was an associate professor of history at the University of Paris in 1972-1973, and he became a full professor in 1973. He is also a professor of history at the Collège de France. Toubert was inducted into the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1986. He won the Silver Medal from the Centre national de la recherche sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saltus
Saltus may refer to: People *Edgar Saltus (1855–1921), American writer known for his highly refined prose style *Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889), American poet *Thomas Saltus Lubbock (1817–1862), Texas Ranger and soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War Latin *The Latin word ''saltus'' (pl. ''saltūs'') meaning "leap," as in: **Natura non facit saltus ("nature does not make jumps"), a principle of natural philosophy; hence in scientific usage: ***Saltation (biology) ***Saltation (geology) ***Saltatory conduction ** ''Saltus lunae'', a "leap of the moon" in Christian calendar computation; see computus **See also Sault, a pre-17th century French form meaning "falls" derived from Latin ''saltus'', found in many place names * ''Saltus'' meaning "wooded area" or "wilderness," as in: **''Saltus Teutoburgiensis'' or Teutoburg Forest **''Hercynius saltus'', one of the Latin names for the Hercynian Forest **''Carbonarius saltus'' or Silva Carbonaria, the "cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
