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Les Tourailles

Coordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°W / 48.7667; -0.4
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Les Tourailles
Location of Les Tourailles
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Les Tourailles is located in France
Les Tourailles
Les Tourailles
Les Tourailles is located in Normandy
Les Tourailles
Les Tourailles
Coordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°W / 48.7667; -0.4
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentOrne
ArrondissementArgentan
CantonAthis-de-l'Orne
CommuneAthis-Val-de-Rouvre
Area
1
2.46 km2 (0.95 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
59
 • Density24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
61100
Elevation159–254 m (522–833 ft)
(avg. 190 m or 620 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Les Tourailles is a commune in the Orne département and the region of Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre.[2]

Geography

  • Watercourses: The river Rouvre.

History

  • Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, departure point for pilgrimages since the 9th century.

Administration

List of Mayors
Start End Name Party Profession
? March 2001 Paul Le Secq - -
March 2001 current Odile Gauquelin Independent -

Population

Historical population of Les Tourailles
(Source: INSEE[3])
Year19621968197519821990199920062012
Population102847496102677671
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Sites and monuments

  • Basilica of the Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, completed in 1939.
  • 16th-century castle keep, a good ensemble with two pavilions.
  • Bridge of Tourailles, the remains of a Roman bridge.
  • Pilgrimages on 8 September and 31 May.

People associated with Les Tourailles

  • Antoine de Montchrestien (born Falaise, Calvados 1570,[4] died Les Tourailles 1621). Poet and author. Known by the name of 'Vatteville'. He tried to revive the religious wars of the sixteenth century but was killed when making a traveller's stop in Les Tourailles.

See also

References

  1. ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. ^ Arrêté préfectoral 16 December 2015 (in French)
  3. ^ Les Tourailles on the INSEE site (in French), archived from the original on 2007-10-10, retrieved 2009-04-10
  4. ^ The main biographical article gives his year of birth as c. 1575, as does the French biographical article.