Mont-Saint-Jean is a village and commune in the Sarthe département of France, in the région Pays-de-la-Loire. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Sarthe (saʁt is a French department, named after the Sarthe River. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Pays de la Loire is one of the 26 Regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the late 20th century to serve as a zone of influence for its capital Nantes