The Parcé-on-Sarthe

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

Its inhabitants is called Parcéens.

Geography

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

The communes bordering are: Sanded on the Sarthe, Solesme, It Vault-of-Chène.

History

Claude Chappe carries out his first public experiment of remote communication in Brûlon on March 2nd 1791. The experiment consisted in placing two mobile dials equipped with needles and figures, called tachograph, respectively installed in its native village of Brûlon, distant of 14 km, and the village of Parcé. The experiment, which consisted in sending a message in each direction, was succeeded and authenticated by an official report. Claude Chappe could, with this evidence of operation, to go to Paris to promote his invention.

Administration

Demography

Religious heritage

Economy

Famous characters

Claude Chappe, 1763-1805, inventor of the air telegraph. It carried out its first tests while making pass from the messages between Brûlon and Parcé.

François Dufeu, born in 1943, writer.

Tourist monuments and places

The church St Pierre The tower St Pierre The martyrdom The vault Notre Dame de Pitié in the cemetery The Pérottin house, known as “Tourettes” The manor of Large Poligné. The home St Martin The Mill

Events

Twinnings

References

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