4K | Le Mans - Alençon | Toll Road | Pays de la Loire & Normandy Region | France | #87

Driving on the A11 E50 toll road from Le Mans, later joining the A28 E402 highway to Alençon.
Filmed in March 2024.
Le Mans 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.
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 Cathédrale St-Julien, dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.
Remnants of a Roman 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.
Arboretum de la Grand Prée
Notre-Dame de la Couture, medieval church
Notre Dame de Sainte Croix, neogothic church
Part of the former Cistercian abbey de l'Epau, founded by Queen Berengaria and currently maintained in extensive grounds by the Département de la Sarthe.
Jardin des Plantes du Mans
Musée de la reine Bérengère, a museum of Le Mans history located in a gothic manor house.
Musée de Tessé [fr], 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.
Le Mans was the birthplace of : -
Elijah ben Menahem Ha-Zaken, born 980
Henry II of England, born 1133
Geoffroy V d'Anjou, born 1113
Geoffrey de Goreham or Gorron, became Abbot of St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK in 1119
John II of France, born 1319
Dom Louis Le Pelletier, born 1663, linguist of the Breton language
Gilles-François de Beauvais, born 7 July 1693, Jesuit writer and preacher
Jean-Marie-Joseph Coutelle (1748-1835), engineer, scientist and pioneer of ballooning
Basil Moreau, born 1799, priest of Le Mans, founded the Congregation of Holy Cross, beatified in Le Mans in 2007
Léon Bollée, born 1870, car manufacturer and inventor
Henri Fournier, born 1871, racing driver
Christine and Lea Papin, whose murder (1933) of their employers inspired Jean Genêt's The Maids
Jean Françaix, born in 1912, composer
Jean Lucas, born 1917, racing driver
Anny-Charlotte Verney, born 1943, racing driver
François Migault, born 1944, racing driver
Jean Rondeau, born in 1946, racing driver and constructor
Gérard Tremblay, born 1950, racing driver
Jean-Yves Empereur born 1952, archeologist
Bertrand Lançon, born 1952, Roman history scholar
François Fillon, born in 1954, former Prime Minister of France
Yves Jumeau, born in 1955, visual artist
François Vallejo, born 1960, novelist
Sylvie Tolmont, born 1962, politician
Lionel Robert, born 1962, racing driver
Sabine Toutain, born in 1966, violist
Doan Bui, born in the 1970s, journalist
Amaelle Landais-Israël, born 1977, climatologist
Emmanuel Moire, born 1979, French singer
Sébastien Bourdais, born 1979, race car driver
Julien Canal, born 1982, race car driver
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, born 1985, professional tennis player
Guillaume Loriot, footballer
Leslie, born 4 February 1985, French singer
Louis Rossi born 1989, Grand Prix motorcycle racer
Emma Mackey, born 1996, French-British actress
Notable residents include : -
Gilles Villeneuve, lived temporarily in Le Mans in 1973.
Gérard Genette, literary theorist, lived and taught in Le Mans from 1956 to 1963.
Jacques Derrida, philosopher, lived and taught in Le Mans in 1959-1960.
David Jason, English actor, lived in Le Mans between 1965-1968 and 1999-2001.
Andy Wallace, born 1961, racecar driver.
Alençon is a commune in Normandy, France, and the capital of the Orne department.[5] It is situated 173 kilometres (107 mi) west of Paris. Alençon belongs to the intercommunality of Alençon (with 52,000 people).
Alençon is linked by the A28 autoroute (motorway/freeway) with the nearby cities of Le Mans to the south (Sarthe) and Rouen (Seine-Maritime) to the north. The A88 autoroute links the A28 just north of Alençon to the coastal port of Caen.
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