Les Ponts-de-Cé

Sister cities

• Bad Emstal

History

In September 1432, during the Hundred Years' War, the routiers of Rodrigo de Villandrando, in the pay of Georges de la Trémoille, held Les Ponts-de-Cé against the assaults of Jean de Bueil. On 7 August 1620, the Battle of Ponts-de-Cé definitively ended a civil war, waged by Marie de Médicis. Her troops were defeated by her son, the French King Louis XIII. This short rebellion, subdued easily by the King's troops, is known in France under the name of "Drôlerie des Ponts-de-Cé" (Les Ponts-de-Cé's joke). The anarchists in the city were targeted during the repression of January and February 1894.

Most-observed species

• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,631
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,541
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,377
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,329
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,196
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,074
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  1,944
• Fire salamander

  Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) · Amphibia
  1,481

Most recent

• M 4 — 2019-06-21
  2 km WSW of Vihiers, France
• M 4.1 — 2018-02-12
  3 km SSE of La Meilleraie-Tillay, France
• M 3.6 — 2017-09-28
  1 km WNW of Tresbœuf, France
• M 3.5 — 2016-06-19
  4 km ESE of La Jumellière, France
• M 4.2 — 2016-05-02
  6 km SE of L'Île-Bouchard, France
• M 2.7 — 2008-11-06
  12 km W of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, France