Parcé-sur-Sarthe (French pronunciation: [paʁse syʁ saʁt], literally Parcé on Sarthe) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,160	—
1975	1,190	+0.37%
1982	1,432	+2.68%
1990	1,640	+1.71%
1999	1,810	+1.10%
2007	2,023	+1.40%
2012	2,141	+1.14%
2017	2,100	−0.39%
Source: INSEE

• François Villon (1431-1463), poet, briefly imprisoned there as testified by a plaque.
• Claude Chappe (1763-1805), inventor of the semaphore telegraph. He made his first attempts passing messages between Brûlon and Parcé.
• Joseph-René Verdier (born 1819 in Parcé-sur-Sarthe - 1904), watercolourist and student of Auguste and Rosa Bonheur. His works include Étang au crépuscule, Petite Fille jouant avec un chien et Un Matin dans la lande (Musée du Mans).
• Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974), novelist, playwright and filmmaker, bought the Ignière mill in 1930, where he stayed, and which he sold twenty years later. Le Gendre de Monsieur Poirier was partly filmed in the region.
• François Dufeu (born in 1943 in Parcé), writer.

• Communes of the Sarthe department