Mayenne

Mayenne is a department in northwest France named after the Mayenne River. Mayenne is a part of the current location of Pays de los angeles Loire and is surrounded by means of the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et-Vilaine. Mayenne is one of the unique 83 departments created at some point of the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.

The northern two thirds correspond to the western part of the previous province of Maine. The southern third of Mayenne corresponds to the northern portion of the old province of Anjou. The population of the branch are called Mayennais. Like 82 different departments, Mayenne was created on March 4, 1790 in the course of the early tiers of the French Revolution by order of the National Constituent Assembly.

The new departments had been to be uniformly administered and approximately equal to one another in length and populace. The former province of Maine was partitioned into two, Upper Maine, focused on Le Mans, became the new department of Sarthe, and Lower Maine, centred on Laval have become the new department of Mayenne. Anjou, to the south, being too big to shape a single branch, turned into shriveled and have become Maine-et-Loire. In this partition, Sarthe received the vicinity of La Fleche.