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Le Mans

Le Mans (/lə ˈmɒ̃/, French: [lə mɑ̃] ⓘ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Le Mans is a part of the Pays de la Loire region.

This article is about the city in France. For the sportscar endurance race, see 24 Hours of Le Mans. For racecar type, see Le Mans Prototype. For other uses, see Le Mans (disambiguation).

Le Mans

France

Pays de la Loire

Sarthe

Le Mans

Le Mans-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

Le Mans Métropole

Stéphane Le Foll[1]

52.81 km2 (20.39 sq mi)

145,004

2,700/km2 (7,100/sq mi)

Manceau (masculine)
Mancelle (feminine)

UTC+01:00 (CET)

UTC+02:00 (CEST)

72181 /72000

(0)243

38–134 m (125–440 ft)
(avg. 51 m or 167 ft)

Its inhabitants are called Manceaux (male) and Mancelles (female). Since 1923, the city has hosted the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's oldest active endurance sports car race. The event is among the most attended and prestigious motor sports events in the world.

Le Mans has a well-preserved old town (Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans) and the , dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

Cathédrale St-Julien

Remnants of a wall are visible in the old town and Roman baths are located by the river. These walls are highlighted every summer (July and August) evening in a light show that tells the history of the town.

Roman

Arboretum de la Grand Prée

medieval church

Notre-Dame de la Couture

neogothic church

Notre Dame de Sainte Croix

Part of the former Cistercian abbey de l'Epau, founded by and currently maintained in extensive grounds by the Département de la Sarthe.

Queen Berengaria

Jardin des Plantes du Mans

Musée de la reine , a museum of Le Mans history located in a gothic manor house.

Bérengère

, the fine arts museum of the city, displaying painting (including artworks by Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, John Constable, Ingres, Théodore Géricault and Camille Corot) and archaeological collections as well as decorative arts.

Musée de Tessé

Le Palais des Comtes du Maine[n 1]

Le Palais des Comtes du Maine[n 1]

Gallo-Roman walls

Gallo-Roman walls

Organ in the cathedral

Organ in the cathedral

A street in the old town

A street in the old town

Manhole cover depicting the city's coat-of-arms

Manhole cover depicting the city's coat-of-arms

Effigy of Berengaria of Navarre in the chapter house of Épau abbey.

Effigy of Berengaria of Navarre in the chapter house of Épau abbey.

Transportation[edit]

The Gare du Mans is the main railway station of Le Mans. It takes 1 hour to reach Paris from Le Mans by TGV high speed train. There are also TGV connections to Lille, Marseille, Nantes, Rennes and Brest. Gare du Mans is also a hub for regional trains. Le Mans inaugurated a new light rail system on 17 November 2007.[15]

Le Mans FC

born 980

Elijah ben Menahem Ha-Zaken

born 1133

Henry II of England

born 1113

Geoffroy V d'Anjou

or Gorron, became Abbot of St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK in 1119

Geoffrey de Goreham

born 1319

John II of France

born 1663, linguist of the Breton language

Dom Louis Le Pelletier

born 7 July 1693, Jesuit writer and preacher

Gilles-François de Beauvais

(1748–1835), engineer, scientist and pioneer of ballooning

Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle

born 1799, priest of Le Mans, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross, beatified in Le Mans in 2007

Basil Moreau

born 1870, car manufacturer and inventor

Léon Bollée

born 1871, racing driver

Henri Fournier

whose murder (1933) of their employers inspired Jean Genêt's The Maids

Christine and Lea Papin

born in 1912, composer

Jean Françaix

born 1917, racing driver

Jean Lucas

born 1943, racing driver

Anny-Charlotte Verney

born 1944, racing driver

François Migault

born in 1946, racing driver and constructor

Jean Rondeau

born 1950, racing driver

Gérard Tremblay

born 1952, archeologist

Jean-Yves Empereur

born 1952, Roman history scholar

Bertrand Lançon

born in 1954, former Prime Minister of France

François Fillon

born in 1955, visual artist

Yves Jumeau

born 1960, novelist

François Vallejo

born 1962, politician

Sylvie Tolmont

born 1962, racing driver

Lionel Robert

born in 1966, violist

Sabine Toutain

born in the 1970s, journalist

Doan Bui

born 1977, climatologist

Amaelle Landais-Israël

born 1979, French singer

Emmanuel Moire

born 1979, race car driver

Sébastien Bourdais

born 1982, race car driver

Julien Canal

born 1985, professional tennis player

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

footballer

Guillaume Loriot

born 4 February 1985, French singer

Leslie

born 1989, Grand Prix motorcycle racer

Louis Rossi

born 1996, French-British actress

Emma Mackey

Le Mans was the birthplace of:


Notable residents include:


Died in Le Mans:

Gastronomy[edit]

The culinary specialty of Le Mans is rillettes, a shredded pork pâté.

Le Mans has been a setting for numerous feature films that feature its famous race.

[17]

Le Mans is a setting for sections of the 2020 novel, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab.

[18]

The Age of the Cretaceous Period of geological time is named for Cenomanus (Gallo-Roman Le Mans)

Cenomanian

Communes of the Sarthe department

(in French)

Official website

(in French)

Le Mans d'Antan