Solesmes, Sarthe

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Coordinates: 47°51′09″N 0°18′02″W / 47.8525, -0.300555555556

Commune of Solesmes St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Statistics
Elevation	22–76
Land area¹	11.53 km²
Population² (1999)	1,425
- Density	123.59/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	72336/ 72300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Solesmes is a small town and commune of the Sarthe département, in France, located near Sablé.

The commune is almost entirely agricultural, but is especially noted as the site of the Benedictine St. Peter's Abbey, originally founded in 1010 and re-established by Dom Prosper Guéranger in 1833. A second abbey for women, St. Cecilia's Abbey, is also located here.

[edit] External links

• St. Peter's Abbey official website
• A complete and practical method of the Solesmes plain chant Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection. {Reprinted by} Cornell University Library Digital Collections