Parcé-sur-Sarthe

Parcé-sur-Sarthe (, literally Parcé on Sarthe) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.

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.