title: Château-du-Loir
text: # Château-du-Loir
  
  Château-du-Loir (French pronunciation: ​; literally 'Château of the Loir') is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 October 2016, it was merged into the new commune Montval-sur-Loir. Château-du-Loir station has rail connections to Tours and Le Mans.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Gervais II, lord of Château-du-Loir
  * Cécile Didier (1888–1975), stage and film actress
  * Guillaume des Roches (1165 - 1222), lord of Longué-Jumelles and Château-du-Loir, comrade in arms of Philippe Auguste
  * Saint Siméon-François Berneux (1814 - 1866), one of the Korean Martyrs
  * Pierre Loutrel (1916 - 1946), bandit
  