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unusual facts about Mortagne-au-Perche


La Trappe Abbey

The site of the famous La Trappe Abbey was for centuries isolated in a valley surrounded by forests, streams and lakes, 9 miles from Mortagne and 84 miles from Paris, in the Diocese of Séez and the former province of Normandy.


Antonella Ruggiero

Pop hits from the band included: “Ma perché”, “Solo tu”, “Per un’ora d’amore”, “Stasera che sera”, “Cavallo bianco”, “Il video sono io”, “Mister Mandarino”, “Ti Sento” and “Vacanze romane”.

Archery at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Sur la Perche à la Herse

The Sur la Perche à la Herse event was part of the archery programme at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Archery at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Sur la Perche à la Pyramide

The Sur la Perche à la Pyramide event was part of the archery programme at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Battle of La Tremblaye

On 13 October, Charles de Royrand and his 3,000 men of the Catholic and Royal Army of Centre took refuge in Mortagne after having been pushed back by the Luçon division of general Antoine Bard, strong of 3,500 soldiers who had burnt down Les Herbiers and La Verrie.

Bec-de-Mortagne

Bec-de-Mortagne in the Pays de Caux is thought to be the birth-place of Turstin FitzRolf, standard bearer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, as he was described by the 12th-century chronicler Orderic Vitalis as from "Bec-en-Caux".

The name comes from ‘’Becr’’, a Norse word for stream, together with the name of the Mortagne family, seigneurs of the village.

Counts and Dukes of Alençon

Peter I (died 1283), received the county of Alençon and part of the county of Perche in appanage from his father Louis IX of France

Eu4ya

They covered hits such as "Disco Blu", "Disco Rouge", "Anti-Funk", "Let's Go Dancing", "Everybody Jump", "Blue Monday", "Sarà perchè ti amo" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".

French porcelain

The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain in Limoges was established in 1771 following the discovery of local supplies of kaolin and a material similar to petuntse in the economically distressed area at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, near Limoges.

Henri Peyroux de la Coudreniere

Born in Mortagne-sur-Sèvre in Poitou, to Charles Peyroux, an apothecary and surgeon, and Marguerite Suzanne Joudad, he conceived the idea of resettling the exiled Acadians in Spanish Louisiana.

Jean Léchelle

Despite his lack of education, he had successes at Mortagne and the battle of Cholet.

La Wantzenau

The town is twinned with Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in Haute-Vienne because the population of La Wantzenau was evacuated there at the start of the war with Germany in 1939.

Legislature XI of Italy

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, DC (dimesso perché eletto Presidente della Repubblica)

Limoges porcelain

The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain at Limoges was established by Turgot in 1771 following the discovery of local supplies of kaolin and a material similar to petuntse in the economically distressed area at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, near Limoges.

Louise Mauger

Sees, Perche, France and married to Pierre Gadoys (1594–1667) before September 15, 1628 in France.

Marc Antoine Bourdon de Vatry

Marc-Antoine Bourdon Vatry (born 24 November 1761 Longny-au-Perche - 22 April 1828 Paris, brother of Louis-François Bourdon, was a French Naval Minister.

Maria de La Cerda y de Lara

# Robert of Alençon (1344–1377), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan

Octave Meynier

Octave Meynier was a French military officer, born on February 22, 1874 at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in France and died on May 31, 1961 at Algiers.

Perche

Stock-raising and dairy-farming are flourishing in the Perche, which is famous for the production of a breed of large and powerful horses, called Percherons.

The greater part of the district is occupied by a semicircle of heights (from 650 to 1000 ft. in height) stretching from Moulins-la-Marche on the northwest to Montmirail on the south; within the basin formed thereby the shape of which is defined by the Huisne, an affluent of the Sarthe, lie the chief towns of Mortagne-au-Perche, Nogent-le-Rotrou and Bellême.

Rambervillers

Rambervillers was the creation in the ninth century of a man called Rambert, who was the Count of Mortagne, or the Abbot of Senones: sources differ.

Robert Giguère

They may have disappeared from Le Perche, but thanks to Robert, thousands of people, including the famous hockey player, Jean-Sébastien Giguère, who call themselves Giguère or one of its many variants, can be found all over North America.

The apothecary and surgeon, Robert Giffard de Moncel in the Perche, was the first to acquire a Quebec seigneury.

Spanish-Norman horse

The Percheron breed originated in France, taking its name from the former Perche province.


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