Mortagne-au-Perche

Mortagne-au-Perche
Mortagne-au-Perche
Location within Normandy region  Mortagne-au-Perche
Coordinates: 48°31′15″N 0°32′54″E / 48.5208°N 0.5483°ECoordinates: 48°31′15″N 0°32′54″E / 48.5208°N 0.5483°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton	Mortagne-au-Perche
Area^1	8.6 km^2 (3.3 sq mi)
Population (1999)^2	4,513
• Density	520/km^2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	61293 / 61400
Elevation	171–264 m (561–866 ft) (avg. 225 m or 738 ft)
^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.

Mortagne-au-Perche (French pronunciation: ​[mɔʁtaɲ o pɛʁʃ]) 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

• 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.

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References

• INSEE commune file