Country France Department Orne Population (2013) 5,797 Arrondissement Alençon | Region Normandy Intercommunality La Ferté-Saint-Michel Area 31.86 km² | |
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Canton La Ferté-Macé (chef-lieu) | ||
La Ferté-Macé is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
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History
During the First World War the village housed a military detention camp, the Dépôt de Triage. Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage" which in fact consisted of having expressed anti war opinions. Cummings' experiences in the camp at La Ferté-Mace were later related in his novel, The Enormous Room.
On 12 January 2016, the former commune Antoigny was merged into La Ferté-Macé.
Twin towns
References
La Ferté-Macé Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA