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Château-du-Loir (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dy lwaʁ]; literally 'Château of the Loir') is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir.^[2] Château-du-Loir station has rail connections to Tours and Le Mans.

Notable people

• Gervais II, lord of Château-du-Loir
• Cécile Didier (1888–1975), stage and film actress
• Guillaume des Roches (1165 - 1222), lord of Longué-Jumelles and Château-du-Loir, comrade in arms of Philippe Auguste
• Saint Siméon-François Berneux (1814 - 1866), one of the Korean Martyrs
• Pierre Loutrel (1916 - 1946), bandit

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department

References