Saint-Calais

Saint-Calais is a common French, located in the department of the the Sarthe and the area Pays of the Loire.

Its inhabitants is called the Calaisians/Calaisiennes.

Geography

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are:

Administration

Demography

History

Inheritance

  • Church Notre-Dame

Economy

Associations

Events

Famous characters

Guillaume of Saint-Calais († 1096), bishop of Durham of 1080 to 1096.

Cardinal Dubois (Saint-Calais, 1856 - Paris, 1929)

Of modest origin, ordered priest in 1879, impassioned history (he is the founder of the learned society the Province of Maine), he climbs the hierarchical levels within the Sarthe-native church. He is named bishop of Verdun in 1901, archbishop of Bourges in 1909, then of Rouen in 1918, before reaching the archbishop's palace of Paris.

Louis-Alphonse Poitevin (Conflans-on-Anchor-tie, 1819 - Conflans-on-Anchor-tie, 1882)

Chemical engineer of formation, Alphonse Poitevin devotes part of his life in the search of new processes concerning photography still stammering. Named by its pars the 3rd man of photography to equal of Niepce and Daguerre, he invented inter alia:

- the photolithography, first proceeded allowing to reproduce an image and thus used for printing works - inalterable photography known as " with coal " - the process of impression to fatty inks color - a process of inking of the tickets to make them unfalsifiable

  • Frederic Proust, photographer of reputation, saw themselves entrusting the management of its collection and of its files by the descendants of famous Poitevin and it is with passion that he discharges his task. He rehabilitated the oldest photographic workshop besides of the world, created by Alphonse Poitevin with 171, rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, to settle there.

Circulation

Orleans, is accessible from Mans by the highway A28, then the auroroute A11, way of meadows of 200 kilometers via Tours and Blois.

The Trunk road 157 connects Mans to Orleans via Saint-Calais on 140 kilometers, therefore more and more of people take this road, so fast in time, and less long in mileage.

The Calaisians thus require for some time a by-pass circumventing the city to avoid the passage of several thousands of vehicle per day on this road.

Twinning

The commune of Calais Saint is twinned with the German village of Kirchdorf. It is located in the Land of Lower Saxony at 50 km of Bremen. Many exchanges are organized every year, in particular between the Inter-commune School of Music and the School of Dance of Kirchdorf.

References

External bonds

  • Calaisian Country

  • Internet site of the canton of Calais Saint:

http://www.payscalaisien.com

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