Langeais

Langeais
Langeais
Commune
	Château de Langeais
	Coat of arms
	Location of Langeais
	Langeais Langeais
	Coordinates: 47°19′36″N 0°24′25″E / 47.3267°N 0.4069°E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Chinon
Canton	Langeais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre-Alain Roiron
Area 1	64.55 km2 (24.92 sq mi)
Population (2021)	4,335
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37123 /37130
Elevation	36–109 m (118–358 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Langeais (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ʒɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Les Essards was merged into Langeais.^[3]

Population[edit]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	2,216	—
1800	2,205	−0.07%
1806	2,239	+0.26%
1821	2,499	+0.74%
1831	2,840	+1.29%
1836	3,057	+1.48%
1841	3,138	+0.52%
1846	3,565	+2.58%
1851	3,307	−1.49%
1856	3,234	−0.45%
1861	3,381	+0.89%
1866	3,604	+1.29%
1872	3,450	−0.73%
1876	3,463	+0.09%
1881	3,517	+0.31%
1886	3,446	−0.41%
1891	3,365	−0.47%
1896	3,309	−0.34%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	3,371	+0.37%
1906	3,550	+1.04%
1911	3,467	−0.47%
1921	3,441	−0.08%
1926	3,450	+0.05%
1931	3,455	+0.03%
1936	3,400	−0.32%
1946	3,511	+0.32%
1954	3,652	+0.49%
1962	3,849	+0.66%
1968	3,907	+0.25%
1975	3,902	−0.02%
1982	4,142	+0.86%
1990	3,960	−0.56%
1999	3,865	−0.27%
2007	4,132	+0.84%
2012	4,309	+0.84%
2017	4,666	+1.60%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

Sights[edit]

Langeais has a church of the 11th, 12th and 15th centuries, but is chiefly interesting for its large and historic château built soon after the middle of the 15th century by Jean Bourré, minister of Louis XI. Here the marriage of Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany took place in 1491. In the park, are the ruins of a keep of late 10th century architecture, built by Fulk Nerra (Black Hawk in old French), count of Anjou.^[6]

Transportation[edit]

Langeais is served by the A85 autoroute.

International relations[edit]

Langeais is twinned with:

Eppstein, Germany
Gondar, Portugal

Notes[edit]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Arrêté préfectoral 30 September 2016 (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Langeais, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Chisholm 1911, p. 173.

References[edit]

Attribution

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Langeais" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 173.

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[1] "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.

[popleg2021-2] "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[3] Arrêté préfectoral 30 September 2016 (in French)

[ehess-4] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Langeais, EHESS (in French).

[pophist-5] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911173-6] Chisholm 1911, p. 173.

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