La Flèche

La Flèche is a commune with 15,108 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Sarthe in the Pays de la Loire; it is the administrative center for the district of La Flèche and the canton of La Flèche.

History

La Flèche was in the Middle Ages, a community of the diocese of Angers and in this context an integral part of Anjou, more precisely the skin -Anjou, which was also angevin Maine. As of 1343 the state claimed by a decree of King Philip IV the salt monopoly and introduced a Gabelle said salt tax. The Anjou was one of the countries with so-called large Gabelle, which also La Flèche concerned. The salt tax was particularly unpopular and is adjacent to the waist a perfect example of the unjust tax system of the ancien régime, which is one of the main causes of the outbreak of the French Revolution.

Under Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne, Seigneur of La Flèche, and later of Sainte -Suzanne ( Mayenne ) and Angers, the city gained significantly in importance. His friend Henry IV, who had spent his youth in La Flèche, here founded a college, and delivered it to the Jesuits. The college developed rapidly and as early as 1500 had 1625 students. Famous men such as Descartes and Prince Eugene of Savoy received their training here. After disputes with the governor for the right to fish in the moat, the monks but were expelled in 1762. The College was converted in 1764 into a military school in 1808 under Napoleon in a military academy.

On December 8, 1793, the royalists were defeated by the Republican troops at La Flèche.

At the foundation of the French départements, 1790, the entire northeastern part of Anjou, including the cities of La Fleche, Le Lude and Château- du- Loir, affiliated to the new department of Sarthe. 1866, the Municipality of Sainte -Colombe was incorporated in 1965, the municipalities of Saint- Germain -du -Val and Verron.

The town hall of the city right on the river in 1994 was upgraded to the Carmelites once ceded Château des Carmes around. The castle is now the posh entrance building, while behind it outbuilding manufacture of steel and glass, the connection to the public now Parc des Carmes.

Neighboring communities

• Bazouges -sur -le- Loir
• Bousse (Sarthe )
• Clermont- Créans
• Cré -sur -Loir | Cré

• Crosmières
• Mareil -sur -Loir
• Villa Ines -sous- Malicorne
• Thorée les Pins

Attractions

• Chapel of Notre -Dame des Vertus, Gallo- Roman
• The Prytanée national militaire, founded in 1603 by Henry IV, now military school

Twinning

• Upper churches, Germany
• Chippenham, England
• Złotów, Poland
• Saint -Lambert (Quebec ), Canada

Personalities

• Jean de Beaugency, first lord of La Flèche
• Lazare de Baif (1496-1547), humanist, diplomat and poet
• Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne (1560-1616), officer and friend of Henry IV
• René Descartes (1596-1650), philosopher, attended the Jesuit College in La Fleche
• Jean Picard, called " Abbé Picard" (1620-1682), astronomer and priest
• Marquis de Turbilly (1717-1776), agronomist
• Marie Pape Carpantier (1815-1878), founder of the first " Écoles maternelles "
• Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer
• Liane de Pougy (1869-1950), dancer and courtesan of the Belle Époque
• Paul Gauthier (1914-2002), theologian
• Jacques Bouillaut (1924-2009), naturalist, founder of the zoo of La Flèche
• Alain Pellegrini ( born 1946 ), general of division
• Michel Virlogeux (* 1946), bridge engineer, for example, Pont de Normandie Viaduc de Millau
• Martin Lersch (born 1954 ), painter, draftsman, musician