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Perche En Nocé
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: , before the 6th century, and in the 6th century, no date and , in the 11th century, in 1045, in 1160–1174 and in 1308, in1238, in1246,Nègre, Ernest (1990). '' Toponymie générale de la France'', Volume I, Librairie Droz. Dominique Fournier, "Notes de toponymie normande : Promenons-nous dans les bois… (au sujet de quelques noms de bois et de forêts en Normandie) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellême Vu Du Ciel
Bellême () is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. It is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère. 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 * 17th century and eighteenth century houses. * 17th century Hôtel de ville. * Sundials on rue du Château, place de la République and place Liègeard. * Château gatehouse 15th century, and moat. National heritage sites The Commune has six buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique. * Saint-Sauveur de Bellême Church 15th century, 16th century, rebuilt between 1675 and 1710. * Crypt of the Saint-Santin Chap ... [...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 in this region, as an escape from Paris. The department was created during the French Revolution 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. Points of interest *Chêne de la Lambonnière is a 8000m2 site of a 500 year old Pedunculate Oak, which includes pond, nature walk and a building built using traditional methods. National heritage sites *Vauvineux Manor is a fifteenth century Manor house, registered as a Monument historique in 1974. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References Communes of Orne Monuments historiques of Orne {{MortagneauPerche-geo ...[...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 Provinces of France, province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries, for the Percheron draft horse, draft horse breed. Until the French Revolution, Perche was ... 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. Geography The Commune is one of 27 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge. In addition the commune along with another 32 communes is part of the Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de la Sarthe. Points of Interest *Hippodrome Jean Gabin - The racetrack was created in 1959 by the actor Jean Gabin who owned land in the area. The venue hosts Harness racing. In 1989 the venue was used in the film Ripoux contre Ripoux. Heraldry Twin towns – sister cities Moulins-la-Marche, along with Sainte-Gauburge-Sainte-Colombe and Courtomer is twinned with: * Schmitten, Germany See also *Communes of the Orne department The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): [...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 sect ... [...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 Communes of France, city in Northwestern France on the Sarthe (river), Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the Provinces of France, province of Maine (province), Maine, it is now the capital of ... References Rivers of France Rivers of Eure-et-Loir Rivers of Orne Rivers of Sarthe Rivers of Centre-Val de Loire Rivers of Pays de la Loire {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normandy
Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands). It covers . Its population in 2017 was 3,499,280. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans; the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. Large settlements include Rouen, Caen, Le Havre and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, 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: Bailiwick of Guernsey, Guernsey and Jersey, which are British Crown Dependencies. Normandy's name comes from the settlement of the territory by Vikings ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carte Du Perche
Carte may refer to: People * Alexander Carte (1805–1881), Irish British zoologist * Anto Carte (1886–1954), Belgian painter * Helen Carte (1852–1913), Scottish British businesswoman * Richard Carte (1808–1891), British flute-maker * Samuel Carte (1652–1740), English antiquarian * Thomas Carte (1686–1754), English historian * Omer Carte Qalib (1930–2020), Somalian politician * Carte Goodwin (born 1974), U.S. politician * Carte Said (born 1997), Italian soccer player Other uses * CARTE Museum (Cartographic Acquisition Research Teaching and Exhibition), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA * Carte network, a French resistance network See also * Deidre LaCarte, Canadian dancer * Julio Lacarte Muró (1918–2016), Uruguayan diplomat * * Card (other) * Cart (other) * Cartes (other) * Cartesian (other) * Descartes (other), including ''des Cartes'' * D'Oyly Carte (other) * Carte blanche (other) A blank cheque o ... [...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 do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Toubert
Pierre Toubert (29 November 1932 – 5 June 2025) was a French historian. He was 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. Life and career 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. Toubert was an associate professor of history at the University of Paris in 1972–1973, and he became a full professor in 1973. He was 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 ... [...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 Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
