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Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët: Intercommunality: ... (French pronunciation: [le lɔʒ maʁʃi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Henriette de La Guiche, the daughter of Philibert, built the stables for her second husband, Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, comte d'Alais , colonel général of the king's cavalry, governor of Provence, and a grandson of Charles IX of France. Alais had also inherited the Château d'Écouen. These royal connections account for the monumentality of ...
Foulques du Merle - (1239 - 1314) was Seigneur of Gacé and Bellou-en-Houlme, and Baron of Le Merlerault, Briouze and Messei. [10] Charles Auguste de Goÿon (1647-1729), a French diplomat and soldier who was the Count of Gacé. [11]
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit: naval captain, lieutenant of New France and governor. Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay: officer and merchant who was a prominent figure in the early days of Montreal. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, colonist, namesake of LaSalle, Quebec. [1]
Aérodrome de Mortagne-au-Perche is an Aerodrome within the commune which is also shared with neighbouring communes of Saint-Hilaire-le-Châtel that opened in 1978. [4] [5] Its ICAO airport code is LFAX. [6] The airport has a 720 metre by 18 metre track that was created in 1985. [7]
Musée De La Météorite De L'aigle - The Museum of the L'Aigle meteorite is dedicated to the 1803 event in L'Aigle when thousands of fragments of a meteorite reached the ground of L'Aigle. [7] [8] Musée des Instruments de musique is a museum located in the town hall, presenting to the public over 90 different types of instruments. [9]
Chateau de la Ventrouze a sixteenth century chateau surrounded by a moat, it was registered as a monument in 1979. [ 5 ] Sainte-Madeleine Church a fifteenth century church, registered as a Monument historique in 1981.
Vassy (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Valdallière. [2] It is said to be the origin of the surnames de Vesci and Vesely in England, introduced after the Norman Conquest in 1066. [3]