Les Tourailles

Les Tourailles
Les Tourailles
Part of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre
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	Coordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°WCoordinates: 48°46′00″N 0°24′00″W / 48.7667°N 0.4°W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Canton	Athis-de-l'Orne
Commune	Athis-Val-de-Rouvre
Area 1	2.46 km2 (0.95 sq mi)
Population (2017)	59
• Density	24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	61100
Elevation	159–254 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: EHESS^[3] and INSEE^[1])
Year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Population	102	84	74	96	102	67	76	59

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.

References[]

INSEE commune file

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 16 December 2015 (in French)
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Tourailles, EHESS. (in French)
^ The main biographical article gives his year of birth as c. 1575, as does the French biographical article.

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[pop2017-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE

[2] Arrêté préfectoral 16 December 2015 (in French)

[3] Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Les Tourailles, EHESS. (in French)

[4] The main biographical article gives his year of birth as c. 1575, as does the French biographical article.

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