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Angers
Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called ''Angevins'' or, more rarely, ''Angeriens''. Angers proper covers and has a population of 154,508 inhabitants, while around 432,900 live in its metropolitan area (''aire d'attraction''). The Communauté urbaine Angers Loire Métropole, Angers Loire Métropole is made up of 29 communes covering with 299,500 inhabitants (2018).Comparateur de territoire
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Not including the broader metropolitan area, Angers is the third most populous Communes of France, commune in northwes ...
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Angers Vue Generale
Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the province are called ''Angevins'' or, more rarely, ''Angeriens''. Angers proper covers and has a population of 154,508 inhabitants, while around 432,900 live in its metropolitan area (''aire d'attraction''). The Angers Loire Métropole is made up of 29 communes covering with 299,500 inhabitants (2018).Comparateur de territoire
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Not including the broader metropolitan area, Angers is the third most populous
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Angers Tramway
The Angers tramway () is the tramway network in the French city of Angers in Pays de la Loire. Opened on 25 June 2011, the system is operated by RATP Dev and replaced some bus lines, with the buses redeployed throughout the rest of the metropolitan area. The Alstom APS ground-level power supply has been used on two parts of the line totalling in order to avoid overhead lines in the centre of Angers and Avrillé. Angers is the third city using such system, after Bordeaux and Reims. Timeline * April 2007: Works officially started. * April 2010: Delivery of the Alstom Citadis 302 trams * December 2010: Testing * January 2011: Operation of shadow service without passengers * 25 June 2011: Line A in service * 8 July 2023: Line B and C in service Current Service The total budget for the first line, re-evaluated in 2008, is around €350m (€47m for the trams), up from the 2004 estimate of €250m. Main features for Line A: * North-South connection across the metropolita ...
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Château D'Angers
The Château d'Angers is a castle in the city of Angers in the Loire Valley, in the ''département in France, département'' of Maine-et-Loire, in France. Founded in the 9th century by the Counts and dukes of Anjou, Counts of Anjou, it was expanded to its current size in the 13th century. It is located overhanging the River Maine (river), Maine. It is a listed Monument historique, historical monument since 1875. Now open to the public, the Château d'Angers is home of the Apocalypse Tapestry. History Originally, the Château d'Angers was built as a fortress at a site inhabited by the Roman Empire, Romans because of its strategic defensive location. In the 9th century, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Angers, Bishop of Angers gave the list of Counts and Dukes of Anjou, Counts of Anjou permission to build a castle in Angers.Delbos (2010), p. 33 The construction of the first castle begun under Count Fulk III, Count of Anjou, Fulk III (970–1040), celebrated for his construction ...
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Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-et-Loire to the east, Vienne and Deux-Sèvres to the south, Vendée to the south-west, and Ille-et-Vilaine to the north-west. It also borders Ille-et-Vilaine in the north for just , France's shortest department boundary. Its prefecture is Angers; its subprefectures are Cholet, Saumur and Segré-en-Anjou Bleu. Maine-et-Loire had a population of 818,273 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 49 Maine-et-Loire
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Maine-et-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the
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Duchy Of Anjou
The Duchy of Anjou (; , ; ) was a French province straddling the lower Loire. Its capital was Angers, and its area was roughly co-extensive with the diocese of Angers. Anjou was bordered by Brittany to the west, Maine to the north, Touraine to the east and Poitou to the south. The adjectival form is Angevin, and inhabitants of Anjou are known as Angevins. In 1482, the duchy became part of the Kingdom of France and then remained a province of the Kingdom under the name of the Duchy of Anjou. After the decree dividing France into departments in 1791, the province was disestablished and split into six new ''départements'': Deux-Sèvres, Indre-et-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Sarthe, and Vienne. Duchy of Anjou The county of Anjou was united to the royal domain between 1205 and 1246, when it was turned into an apanage for the king's brother, Charles I of Anjou. This second Angevin dynasty, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, established itself on the thrones of ...
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René Of Anjou
René of Anjou (; ; 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1434 to 1480, who also reigned as King of Naples from 1435 to 1442 (then Aragonese conquest of Naples, deposed). Having spent his last years in Aix-en-Provence, he is known in France as the Good King René (; ). René was a member of the House of Valois-Anjou, a cadet branch of the French royal house, and the great-grandson of John II of France. He was a prince of the blood, and for most of his adult life also the brother-in-law of the reigning king Charles VII of France. Other than the aforementioned titles, he was also Duke of Bar from the 1420s onwards and Duke of Lorraine from 1431 to 1453. Biography René was born on 16 January 1409 in the castle of Angers. He was the second son of Duke of Anjou, Duke Louis II of Anjou, Louis II of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou, King of Naples, by Yolande of Aragon, Yolanda of Kingdom of Aragon, Aragon. René was the brother of Marie of Anjou, w ...
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Canton Of Angers-1
The canton of Angers-1 ( French: ''Canton d'Angers-1'') is an administrative division of the Maine-et-Loire department, in western France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Angers. It consists of the following communes: #Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ... (partly) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Angers-1 Cantons of Maine-et-Loire ...
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Christophe Béchu
Christophe Béchu (; born 11 June 1974) is a French politician who has been serving as Minister for Ecological Transition and Cohesion of the Territories in the government of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2022 to 2024. Béchu previously was the President of the General Council of the Maine-et-Loire department from 2004 to 2014. He briefly served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 until 2011, representing the West France constituency. A former member of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement, later the Republicans (LR), and the DL, Béchu became the secretary general of Horizons in 2021. Béchu briefly served as Minister of Relations with Local Authorities from 20 May to 4 July 2022.Marius Bocquet (20 May 2022)Gouvernement : Christophe Béchu, le premier des philippistes, nommé ministre délégué aux Collectivités territoriales''Le Figaro''. Political career Béchu has represented the Canton of Angers-Nord-Ouest ...
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Maine (river)
The Maine () is a river, a tributary of the Loire, long, in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'' in France. It is formed by the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe rivers north of Angers. It flows through this city and joins the Loire southwest of Angers. The river's name is derived from the ancient ''Meodena'', as is Mayenne, and is unrelated to Maine Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and ..., the province. References Rivers of France Rivers of Maine-et-Loire Rivers of Pays de la Loire {{France-river-stub ...
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Nantes
Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department and the Pays de la Loire Regions of France, region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former Duchy of Brittany, duchy and Province of Brittany, province, and Reunification of Brittany, its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the ...
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Canton Of Angers-7
The canton of Angers-7 is an administrative division of the Maine-et-Loire department, in western France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Angers. It consists of the following communes: #Angers (partly) # Loire-Authion # La Ménitré # Le Plessis-Grammoire # Sarrigné #Trélazé Trélazé () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. Population See also *Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 176 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department of France F ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Angers-7 Cantons of Maine-et-Loire ...
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Mayenne (river)
The Mayenne () is a long river in western France, principally located in the French region of Pays de la Loire. Together with the river Sarthe (river), Sarthe and its tributary the Loir it forms the Maine (river), Maine, which is a tributary to the Loire. Geography Its source is in the department of Orne near the commune of Lalacelle, between Pré-en-Pail and Alençon. The source is in the foothills of Mont des Avaloirs at an altitude of 961 feet (293m); from there the river runs from east to west until it reaches Sept-Forges, at which point it turns to the south. After being joined by the Oudon, the Mayenne forms a confluence with the Sarthe north of Angers. The confluence of these two rivers is called the Maine (river), Maine, which is the local pronunciation of Mayenne. The waters of the Maine then empty into the Loire south of Angers. Departments and towns along the river include: * Orne * Mayenne: Mayenne, Mayenne, Mayenne, Laval, Mayenne, Laval, Château-Gontier * Maine-et ...
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