Centre-Val de Loire
Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement of Loches

Descartes

Descartes is a large village and commune in the department in central . It is approximately 29 kilometers east of Richelieu and about 48 kilometers east of Loudun, on the banks of the River, near the border of the French department of , and the border of the region between and .
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  • Type: Village with 3,290 residents
  • Description: commune in Indre-et-Loire, France
  • Also known as: “37115”, “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”, “Haye (La) (devenue Descartes)”, “La Haye en Touraine”, and “La Haye-Descartes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Notre-Dame de La Haye Church and Église Saint-Pierre de Balesmes.

Church
Photo: Arcyon37, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notre-Dame de La Haye is a former in the town of Descartes, in the French department of . The church, a former castral chapel founded in the Romanesque period but enlarged in the Gothic style, became a parish church.

Church
Photo: Arcyon37, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Arcyon37, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Buxeuil and Abilly.

Village
Photo: Simon de l’Ouest, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in the region in western .

Village
Photo: Gerardjalaudin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a commune in the department in central . is situated 4½ km southeast of Descartes.

Descartes

Latitude
46.9741° or 46° 58′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.6995° or 0° 41′ 58″ east
Population
3,290
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
8FR2XMFX+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26697719
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6616640
Wiki­data ID
Q320299
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Descartes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Descartes”
  • Aragonese: “Descartes”
  • Armenian: “Դեկարտ”
  • Arpitan: “Descartes”
  • Asturian: “Descartes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dekart”
  • Bambara: “Descartes”
  • Basque: “Descartes”
  • Bavarian: “Descartes”
  • Belarusian: “Дэкарт”
  • Breton: “Descartes”
  • Bulgarian: “Декарт”
  • Cajun French: “Descartes”
  • Catalan: “Descartes”
  • Catalan: “La Haye”
  • Cebuano: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Cebuano: “Descartes”
  • Chechen: “ДекагӀт (ЭндгӀ а, ЛуагӀа а)”
  • Chechen: “ДекагӀт”
  • Chinese: “Descartes”
  • Chinese: “代斯卡尔泰”
  • Chinese: “图赖讷拉海”
  • Chinese: “拉海笛卡尔”
  • Chinese: “海亚”
  • Chinese: “笛卡尔”
  • Chinese: “笛卡爾”
  • Corsican: “Descartes”
  • Croatian: “Descartes”
  • Czech: “Descartes”
  • Danish: “Descartes”
  • Dutch: “Descartes (Indre-et-Loire)”
  • Dutch: “Descartes”
  • Dutch: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Dutch: “La Haye-Descartes”
  • Esperanto: “Descartes”
  • Estonian: “Descartes”
  • Faroese: “Descartes”
  • Finnish: “Descartes”
  • French: “Descartes”
  • French: “Haye (La) (devenue Descartes)”
  • French: “La Haye Descartes”
  • French: “La Haye-Descartes”
  • Friulian: “Descartes”
  • Galician: “Descartes”
  • German: “Descartes”
  • German: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • German: “La Haye-en-Touraine”
  • Greek: “Ντεκάρτ”
  • Hebrew: “דקארט”
  • Hebrew: “לה איי”
  • Hungarian: “Descartes”
  • Icelandic: “Descartes”
  • Ido: “Descartes”
  • Indonesian: “Descartes”
  • Interlingua: “Descartes”
  • Interlingue: “Descartes”
  • Irish: “Descartes”
  • Italian: “Descartes”
  • Italian: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Descartes”
  • Japanese: “デカルト”
  • Kabyle: “Descartes”
  • Kalaallisut: “Descartes”
  • Kongo: “Descartes”
  • Kurdish: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Kurdish: “Descartes”
  • Ladin: “Descartes”
  • Latin: “Descartes”
  • Latvian: “Descartes”
  • Ligurian: “Descartes”
  • Limburgan: “Descartes”
  • Lithuanian: “Descartes”
  • Low German: “Descartes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Descartes”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Descartes”
  • Malagasy: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Malagasy: “Descartes”
  • Malagasy: “Jacques Barbier”
  • Malay: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Malay: “Descartes”
  • Maltese: “Descartes (La Haye)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Descartes”
  • Minangkabau: “Descartes”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ديكارط”
  • Narom: “Descartes”
  • Neapolitan: “Descartes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Descartes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Descartes”
  • Norwegian: “Descartes”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Descartes”
  • Papiamento: “Descartes”
  • Persian: “دکارت، اندره-لوار”
  • Picard: “Descartes”
  • Piemontese: “Descartes”
  • Polish: “Descartes”
  • Polish: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Polish: “La Haye-Descartes”
  • Portuguese: “Descartes”
  • Portuguese: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Prussian: “Descartes”
  • Romagnol: “Descartes”
  • Romanian: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Romanian: “Descartes”
  • Romansh: “Descartes”
  • Russian: “Декарт”
  • Sardinian: “Descartes”
  • Scots: “Descartes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Descartes”
  • Serbian: “Dekart”
  • Serbian: “Descartes”
  • Serbian: “Декарт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Descartes”
  • Sicilian: “Descartes”
  • Slovak: “Descartes”
  • Slovenian: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Slovenian: “Descartes”
  • Spanish: “Descartes”
  • Spanish: “La Haye en Touraine”
  • Swahili: “Descartes”
  • Swedish: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Swedish: “Descartes”
  • Swiss German: “Descartes”
  • Tatar: “Декарт (Эндр һәм Луара)”
  • Tatar: “Декарт”
  • Turkish: “Descartes”
  • Ukrainian: “Декарт”
  • Uzbek: “Descartes”
  • Venetian: “Descartes”
  • Vietnamese: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Vietnamese: “Descartes”
  • Vlaams: “Descartes”
  • Volapük: “Descartes”
  • Walloon: “Descartes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Descartes”
  • Welsh: “Descartes”
  • Wolof: “Descartes”
  • Zulu: “Descartes”
  • “Descartes”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Descartes”. Photo: Jean-Charles GUILLO, Public domain.