Mortagne-au-Perche

Mortagne-au-Perche
Mortagne-au-Perche
Location within Lower Normandy region  Mortagne-au-Perche
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lower Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton	Mortagne-au-Perche
Statistics
Elevation	171–264 m (561–866 ft) (avg. 225 m/738 ft)
Land area1	8.6 km2 (3.3 sq mi)
Population2	4,513  (1999)
- Density	525 /km2 (1,360 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	61293/ 61400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°31′15″N 0°32′54″E / 48.5208333333°N 0.548333333333°E / 48.5208333333; 0.548333333333

Mortagne-au-Perche is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Heraldry

The arms of Mortagne-au-Perche are blazoned : Or, 3 fern fronds vert.

Demographic evolution

• 1962: 3909
• 1968: 4322
• 1975: 4877
• 1982: 4851
• 1990: 4584
• 1999: 4513

1962 population without double counting

People

• Early Québécois settler, Zacharie Cloutier (1590-1677).
• City of Boucherville founder, Pierre Boucher (1622-1717)
• The 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.
• The philosopher and antimilitarist Émile Chartier dit Alain (1868-1951), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• Fashion designer Chantal Thomass lives in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• The colonizer of Canada, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal.
• The journalist Jean Planchais (1922-2006), born in Mortagne-au-Perche.
• the journalist and Swiss writer Alex Capus, born in Mortagne-au-Perche in 1961.

See also

Normandy portal

• Communes of the Orne department

References

• INSEE commune file