Parcé-sur-Sarthe (French pronunciation: ​[paʁse syʁ saʁt], literally Parcé on Sarthe) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.

Parcé-sur-Sarthe
Commune
The centre of Parcé-sur-Sarthe
Coat of arms
Location of Parcé-sur-Sarthe
Parcé-sur-Sarthe Show map of France Parcé-sur-Sarthe Show map of Pays de la Loire
Coordinates: 47°50′32″N 0°11′59″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Intercommunality	Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Gendry[1]
Area 1	38.99 km2 (15.05 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	2,084
• Density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Parcéen, Parcéenne
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	72228 /72300
Elevation	26–57 m (85–187 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Personalities linked to the commune

• François Villon (1431-1463), poet, briefly imprisoned there as testified by a plaque.
• Claude Chappe (1763-1805), inventor of the semaphore telegraph. He made his first attempts passing messages between Brûlon and Parcé.
• Joseph-René Verdier (born 1819 in Parcé-sur-Sarthe - 1904), watercolourist and student of Auguste and Rosa Bonheur. His works include Étang au crépuscule, Petite Fille jouant avec un chien et Un Matin dans la lande (Musée du Mans).
• Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker, bought the Ignière mill in 1930, where he stayed, and which he sold twenty years later. Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier was partly filmed in the region.
• François Dufeu (born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department

References

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