Mortagne au Perche

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Country France Department Orne Canton Mortagne-au-Perche Area 8.6 km²		Region Normandy Arrondissement Mortagne-au-Perche Population (1999) 4,513 Local time Sunday 7:31 AM

Weather 9°C, Wind W at 19 km/h, 92% Humidity Points of interest La Galerie, Musée Alain, Musée Percheron

Mortagne-au-Perche ([mɔʁtaɲ o pɛʁʃ]) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Map of 61400 Mortagne-au-Perche, France

Demographic evolution

1962: 3909

1968: 4322

1975: 4877

1982: 4851

1990: 4584

1999: 4513

1962 population without double counting

People

Geoffrey II, Count of Perche and Mortagne, grandfather of Queen Margaret of L'Aigle

Early Québécois settler Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677).

Jean-Pierre Poisson (1590-1650), an arquebusier who accompanied the explorer Champlain to Canada. Poisson returned to France, but some of his children emigrated to Quebec and left many descendants.

City of Boucherville founder Pierre Boucher (1622-1717)

Count Joseph de Puisaye (1755-1827), born in Mortagne-au-Perche, was the representative of the percheronne nobility in the Généraux States of Versailles of 1789. He rocks in the Counter-revolution after the arrest of the king and joined Chouannerie in Brittany. He was chosen by the Count d'Artois (future Charles X) to organize the English unloading of Quiberon in 1795 whose failure signs the end of his participation in the movement. He died exiled in Hammersmith, England.

Philosopher and antimilitarist Émile Chartier dit Alain (1868-1951), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.

Fashion designer Chantal Thomass lives in Mortagne-au-Perche.

Colonizer of Canada Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal.

Journalist Jean Planchais (1922-2006), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.

Journalist and Swiss writer Alex Capus, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1961.

References

Mortagne-au-Perche Wikipedia

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Map of 61400 Mortagne-au-Perche, France

Demographic evolution

People

References