Perche

Bellême, one of Perche's capitals[1]
Location of Perche in France
17th-century map of Grand Perche and Perche Gouet

Perche (French pronunciation: [pɛʁʃ] ⓘ) (French: le Perche) is a former province of France, known historically for its forests and, for the past two centuries, for the Percheron draft horse breed. Until the French Revolution, Perche was bounded by four ancient territories of northwestern France: the provinces of Maine, Normandy, and Orléanais, and the region of Beauce.[a] Afterwards it was absorbed into the present-day departments of Orne and Eure-et-Loir, with small parts in the neighboring departments of Eure, Loir-et-Cher, and Sarthe.[2]

  1. ^ Hommey, L. (1899). Histoire générale, ecclésiastique et civile, du diocèse de Séez ancien et ... p. 282.
  2. ^ Thompson, Kathleen (2002). Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France: The County of the Perche, 1000-1226. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 5, 9 ("the Perche" and modern equivalent), 11 (margins, formation), 13. ISBN 9780861932542. Retrieved 21 March 2018.


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