Sainte-Osmane (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ɔsman]) is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Étangson.[2] The 17th-century French Benedictine Ambroise Janvier (1613–1682) was born in the village.
The commune is named after Saint Osmanna, who hermitage was said to be there, afterwards the site of a church.[3]
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References
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 13 September 2018 (in French)
- ^ O'Hanlon, John (1873), Lives of the Irish saints, p. 240, retrieved 2021-08-02