Château-du-Loir (; literally '
Château
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of the
Loir
The Loir is a long river in western France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. Its source is in the Eure-et-Loir department, north of Illiers-Combray. It joins the river Sarthe in Briollay, north of the city of Angers.
It is indirectly ...
') is a former
commune in the
Sarthe department in the
region
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of
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...
in north-western
France
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. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune
Montval-sur-Loir.
Arrêté préfectoral
28 June 2016 Château-du-Loir station
Gare de Château-du-Loir is a railway station serving the town Château-du-Loir, Sarthe department, western France.
Services
The station is served by regional trains to Le Mans and Tours
Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of ...
has rail connections to Tours and Le Mans.
Notable people
* Gervais II, lord of Château-du-Loir
* Cécile Didier (1888–1975), stage and film actress
* Guillaume des Roches (1165 - 1222), lord of Longué-Jumelles and Château-du-Loir, comrade in arms of Philippe Auguste
* Saint Siméon-François Berneux (1814 - 1866), one of the Korean Martyrs
* Pierre Loutrel
Pierre Loutrel (5 March 1916, Château-du-Loir, Sarthe – 11 November 1946), better known by his nickname of "Pierrot le fou" (Crazy Pete) was France's first "public enemy number one" and one of the leaders of the ''Gang des Tractions Avant, Gang ...
(1916 - 1946), bandit
See also
* Communes of the Sarthe department
References
Chateau-du-Loir
Maine (province)
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