Sillé-le-Guillaume

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Sillé-le-Guillaume
Sillé-le-Guillaume is located in France
Sillé-le-Guillaume
Sillé-le-Guillaume
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Location within Pays de la Loire region
Sillé-le-Guillaume is located in Pays de la Loire
Sillé-le-Guillaume
Sillé-le-Guillaume
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Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Sarthe
Arrondissement Mamers
Canton Sillé-le-Guillaume (chef-lieu)
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Pays de Sillé
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Jean-Marie Hoguet
Area1 12.90 km2 (4.98 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 2,360
 • Density 180/km2 (470/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 72334 / 72140
Elevation 115–260 m (377–853 ft)
Website www.sille-le-guillaume.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Sillé-le-Guillaume is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France, named after Guillaume de Sillé.

In the fifteenth century the lord of the manor was Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380–1459), following the English conquest of Normandy and Maine.

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