La Guerche
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La Guerche is a commune
in the Indre-et-Loire
department in central France
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People from La Guerche are called Guerchois or Guerchoises.
Louis Amédée Achard
, an author created a character called Monsieur of La Guerche, who was the titular protagonist of Les chevauchées de M. de la Guerche.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire
Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
department in central France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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People from La Guerche are called Guerchois or Guerchoises.
Louis Amédée Achard
Louis Amédée Achard
Louis Amédée Eugène Achard was a prolific French novelist.After a short stay near Algiers, where he supervised a farm, he went to Toulouse, and then Marseille, where he became a journalist and wrote for the Sémaphore.He moved to Paris, where he wrote for the Vert-Vert, the Entracte, the Charivari,...
, an author created a character called Monsieur of La Guerche, who was the titular protagonist of Les chevauchées de M. de la Guerche.
See also
- Château de la GuercheChâteau de la GuercheChâteau de la Guerche is a castle in La Guerche, in Indre-et-Loire, a département in France. Among his famous owners, the Lords of Rougé used it as their residence between 1351 and 1416....
- House of RougéHouse of RougéThe House of Rougé is a family of the French nobility, documented since the 11th century, originally coming from the locality of Rougé in Brittany. Their line descends from Rivallo IV of Brittany, himself the son of Saint Salomon, King of Brittany...
- Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department