Le Pallet

Le Pallet

French commune
région=Pays de la Loire
département=Loire-Atlantique
arrondissement=Arrondissement de Nantes
canton=Canton de Vallet
insee=44117
cp=44330
maire= Pierre-André Perrouin
mandat= 2008-2014
intercomm=Communauté de Communes de Vallet
longitude=-1.33444444444
latitude=47.1388888889
alt moy=37 m
alt mini=2 m
alt maxi=52 m
hectares=1175
km²=11,75
sans=2650
date-sans=2007
dens=223|

Le Pallet is a village and commune in the Loire-Atlantique "département" of north-western France. The village lies on the River Sèvre Nantaise.

Le Pallet is notable as the birthplace of Peter Abelard, the medieval scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. Abelard is himself best known for the story of his affair with and love for his student Héloïse.cite web | url = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abelard/ | title = Peter Abelard (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | publisher = Stanford University | accessdate = 2008-07-07]

ee also

*Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department

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