• Thumbnail for Château de Montsoreau
    Montsoreau, in the Maine-et-Loire département of France, close to Saumur, Chinon, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Candes-Saint-Martin. The Château de Montsoreau is...
    34 KB (3,642 words) - 15:06, 23 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gilles de Rais
    (1913). "Jean V et Marguerite de Clisson. La ruine de Châteauceaux". Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Inférieure (in...
    178 KB (20,977 words) - 23:26, 30 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Maine (province)
    et de l'histoire des départements de la Sarthe, de la Mayenne et de Maine-et-Loire, Nantes et Paris, 1856–1860; Abbé Angot, "Les vicomtes du Maine", dans...
    17 KB (1,754 words) - 06:01, 9 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angers
    about 300 km (190 mi) southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French...
    77 KB (8,495 words) - 20:19, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Montreuil-Bellay
    The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the site...
    4 KB (443 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2024
  • Job de Roincé (Born Joseph Boreau de Roincé, 18 April 1896, Segré, Maine-et-Loire - 30 December 1981), was a French journalist and writer, and also one...
    4 KB (537 words) - 06:35, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Glanfeuil Abbey
    century in the village of Saint-Maur-sur-Loire, located in what is now the commune of Le Thoureil, Maine-et-Loire. According to the legendary account attributed...
    7 KB (893 words) - 11:24, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de Falloux
    education, favoring private Catholic teaching. Falloux was born at Angers, Maine-et-Loire. His father had been ennobled by King Charles X of France, and Falloux...
    4 KB (469 words) - 22:55, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Baugé
    The Château de Baugé is a castle, extensively altered and restored to create a château, in the commune of Baugé-en-Anjou in the Maine-et-Loire département...
    4 KB (506 words) - 18:30, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Chanteloup
    (1879). Dictionnaire géographique historique et biographique d'Indre-et-Loire et de l'ancienne province de Touraine, volume 2. Tours: Imprimérie Rouillé-Ladevèze...
    33 KB (3,907 words) - 08:19, 29 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Château de Bercy
    Tome 2: Le Règne de Louis XIV. Paris: J. Picard. OCLC 489711032, 476619163. Le Goff, Guy (1991). C.A.O.A du dépt. du Maine-et-Loire, "Une visite à Brissac"...
    4 KB (486 words) - 18:09, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Miss Grand France 2024
    Alexandra Gradel Île-de-France - Pauline Thimon Languedoc - Manuella Gritar Loire-Atlantique – Anna Jalia (withdrew) Maine-et-Loire - Elma Guilleux Martinique...
    26 KB (1,644 words) - 02:54, 30 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Foullon de Doué
    Maine-et-Loire, Foullon served as Intendant-General of the Armies during the Seven Years' War, and as Intendant of the Army and Navy under Marshal de...
    5 KB (592 words) - 00:18, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jeanne de Laval
    pastures. Jeanne died on 19 December 1498 at the Chateau de Beaufort-en-Vallée, Maine-et-Loire. She was sixty-five years of age. A street still bears her...
    8 KB (813 words) - 11:08, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chouannerie
    Anjou, Marie Paul de Scépeaux de Bois-Guignot was named commander for the north of Maine-et-Loire. His authority later extended to Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne...
    28 KB (3,499 words) - 04:26, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hôtel de Ville, Cholet
    The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) is a municipal building in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, western France, standing on Rue...
    8 KB (711 words) - 14:25, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Perche
    Perche (category History of Centre-Val de Loire)
    located within the departments of Orne and Eure-et-Loir, in the regions of Normandy and Centre-Val de Loire, respectively. The Percheron breed of draft horses...
    21 KB (2,252 words) - 07:32, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chemillé-en-Anjou
    Chemillé-en-Anjou (category Communes of Maine-et-Loire)
    [ʃəmije ɑ̃.n‿ɑ̃ʒu] , literally Chemillé in Anjou) is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. Chemillé is the municipal seat. The commune...
    4 KB (217 words) - 19:46, 25 August 2024
  • François Lebrun, Histoire des pays de la Loire: Orléanais, Touraine, Anjou, Maine [History of the Loire Country: Orleans, Touraine, Anjou, Maine], 1972 p.402...
    37 KB (1,633 words) - 13:08, 25 May 2024
  • covers Loire-Atlantique, Vendée and part of Maine-et-Loire. Created in 1985 under the name "Radio France Loire Océan" and taking advantage of the vacant...
    4 KB (280 words) - 10:09, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Blois
    commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours....
    51 KB (5,530 words) - 10:30, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Natural regions of France
    province (in Belgium); The Val de Loire, which includes part of the Centre-Val de Loire region, Mayenne, Sarthe, and Maine-et-Loire; The Pays Catalans in France...
    5 KB (576 words) - 16:00, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Challain-la-Potherie
    The Château de Challain-la-Potherie is a castle located in the French commune of Challain-la-Potherie, in Maine-et-Loire. Constructed between 1847 and...
    64 KB (8,033 words) - 18:16, 23 January 2025
  • région de la Loire moyenne, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 5, 1962 Phalle, Édouard de Saint, Comtes de Troyes et de Poitiers au IXe siècle: histoire d’un...
    2 KB (275 words) - 05:14, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nantes
    Primarily a news channel, it is available in Loire-Atlantique and parts of neighbouring Vendée and Maine-et-Loire. Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187–probably...
    158 KB (16,025 words) - 10:11, 31 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Jean Foyer
    Jean Foyer (category People from Maine-et-Loire)
    Jean Foyer (21 April 1921, Contigné, Maine-et-Loire – 3 October 2008, Paris) was a French politician and minister. He studied law and became a law professor...
    4 KB (397 words) - 22:05, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cugand-la-Bernardière
    [kyɡɑ̃ la bɛʁnaʁdjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It was formed on 1 January 2025 by the merger...
    8 KB (626 words) - 23:13, 7 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charles Ernest Beulé
    Charles Ernest Beulé (category Politicians from Pays de la Loire)
    April 1874) was a French archaeologist and politician. Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, he was educated at the École Normale, and after holding the professorship...
    3 KB (313 words) - 14:44, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brittany
    guide histoire" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 3 May 2011. Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'ouest, (Anjou, Maine, Poitou...
    129 KB (14,806 words) - 09:17, 28 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Renée Bordereau
    Renée Bordereau (category People from Maine-et-Loire)
    Renée Bordereau (1770 in Soulaines-sur-Aubance – 1822 in Vezins, Maine-et-Loire), nicknamed The Angevin, was a French soldier. She followed her father...
    5 KB (600 words) - 01:33, 3 July 2024