Pezé-le-Robert

Pezé-le-Robert is a small village in the Sarthe, about 6 km east of Sillé-le-Guillaume, 25 km northwest of Le Mans.
The town is a very elongated ellipse. It is bordered to the south by Vernie and Crissé, east by Ségrie, and north by Montreuil-le-Chétif and Mont-Saint-Jean.
At the 2011 census the village had 367 inhabitants (the Pezéens and Pezéennes): 191 men and 176 women.
The area of the commune is 1635 hectares, including 650 hectares of forest.
North of the village is the wooden Pezé; all the rest is occupied by crops and meadows.
The village is organized around the D5 (street of 11 August 1944), the church square and the Rue de la Gare.
Continuing with the D5 to the east, we find the largest hamlet in the town: Val Peter.
Three rivers cross the city: the Coughing, Pas au Chat, the Ford Moreau.

Origin of name: Perhaps the Latin adverb "pessium" which means a low place. The origin of the village dates back according to local tradition around 834.
Saint Aldric, (Bishop of Le Mans, who came to help the poor and subsidized churches and monasteries through his personal fortune) would have established a farm.
Curing and priory are founded in the late tenth century.
The lordship is when a fee simple. It will be erected in châtellenie in 1577 and then a marquisate in 1658.
Henri Pezé, about 960, is the earliest known lords of this place. His descendants include Hubert said "the Marquis of Pezé" Lieutenant General Louis XV of armies and the abbot Saint Jean d'Angelique, appointed chaplain of King Louis XV in 1721.

Municipality	Pezé-le-Robert
Postcode	72140
Latitude	48.1937630 (N 48° 11’ 38”)
Longitude	-0.0615630 (W 0° 3’ 42”)
Altitude	From 93m to 277m
Surface area	16.35 km²
Population	364 inhabitants
Density	22 inhabitants/km²
Prefecture	Le Mans (34 km, 39 min)
Insee code	72234
Intercommunality	CC de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé
Department	Sarthe
Territory	Maine
Region	Pays de la Loire

Under the patronage of St Martin of Tours (316-397), it dates to the choir of the fourteenth century. She underwent successive changes until 1849.
The Chapel of St. Anne (right) built in 1640 was founded by Ambrose of Courtavel husband of Anne Pezé.
The Chapel of St. Peter (left) had its foundation stone laid April 19, 1838.
The hexagonal pyramid-shaped bell tower dates from 1849.
The tufa stone of the big door comes from the career Boissé.
René Guibon, lime burner in Pezé provided the lime used for assembly of stones.
The church underwent a major renovation in the early twenty-first century (2002-2005).
The window of St. Martin: This work of glass painter Auguste Alleaume (1854-1940) in 1923 and traces the stage of the mantle that St. Martin of Tours shares with a poor in Amiens.

The Priory: This house of the fifteenth century sandstone and slate roussard is now private property. It is said that the monks of la Couture at Le Mans took refuge there in 1414 and 1500 when plague epidemics.
The Presbytery.
Sainte-Anne.

The War Memorial: This monument is located on the church square. His inauguration took place 25 July 1923.
The cemetery: Cross Cemetery, formerly placed at a crossroads; grave rifle.
Some hiking trails leading off from the church can discover the countryside and the wood Pezé.

Last name	Outing type	Difficulty	Duration	Departure municipality
Beef Road	Hike	Easy	3:45	Jauzé (33 km)
The greenway of Saosnois: a territory to discover!	Hike	Easy	3:25	Saint-Longis (35 km)
Discovering Bonnétable	Hike	Easy	55 min	Bonnétable (36 km)
Morinière circuit	Hike	Easy	3:00	Saint-Denis-d'Anjou (53 km)
Pays Domfrontais	Cycling itinerary	Intermediate	5:00	Soucé (54 km)

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