The Perch is the name we gave to the 17th century to the province from which came many of the oldest families in Quebec: Aubin, Baril, Beaulac, Bouchard, Boucher, Cloutier, Drouin, Gagnon , Giguere, Lambert, Landry, Leduc, Lefebvre, Mercier, Pelletier, Rivard, Smith and many others. For 2 centuries, the name of the Perche no longer used in France and the region is part of Normandy.
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Mortagne au Perche
(Lower Normandy - Orne)
Common Name: Mortagne au Perche
Region: Lower Normandy
Department: Orne (61)
Zip code: 61400
Altitude: 225 meters
Mortagne au Perche
(Lower Normandy - Orne)
Common Name: Mortagne au Perche
Region: Lower Normandy
Department: Orne (61)
Zip code: 61400
Altitude: 225 meters
General Historical
Province of Perche, capital in the 17th and 18th. Mortagne would "Mauritania" Gallo-Roman times. Monastery founded in the 7th and castle in the Carolingian period, it was rebuilt further west and fortified in the 12th, then called Fort Toussaint. St. Louis went to Mortagne repeatedly. The town was the 14th defensive enclosure currently defines the ancient city. Despite a period of prosperity from the end of the Hundred Years War to the Wars of Religion, Mortagne undergoes then twenty-two assaults and sieges: the dismantling of the ramparts and castle, fire of Notre Dame. The city, faithful to Catholicism, was besieged and taken by Coligny by Henri IV. In 1610, became the capital Mortagne Perche judicial and administrative. In the 17th, many residents took part in the settlement of Canada. The Revolution resulted in the destruction of religious buildings. After a period of regression, Mortagne, historic city center of an opulent, is booming economic and tourism. Home of Pierre Boucher, the most famous Percheron emigrants in Canada (commemorated by a street and a window of the church), and philosopher Alain, born in 1868.
Civil Architecture:
few remnants of Toussaint Fort, overlooking the Miss, integrated housing. Porte Saint-Denis * (IMH), a former city gate with the 12th Renaissance gallery (Museum Percheron). City Hall * 18th: fairs and wood Louis XV French gardens with statue of Fremiet. Remnants of the old hospital Saint-Nicolas (court of the post): windows and bas-reliefs Renaissance (IMH). Halle grain 1825. Many old houses, * including hotel Fontenay 17th, 13 rue du Colonel Guérin facade and roof courtyard (IMH), forehearth, balcony, decorated windows (house of Works); hotel Puisaye: 16th turret; tower house (IMH), 13 Place Général de Gaulle, former hotel Longueil (IMH), current school Bignon, rue du General Leclerc: front courtyard, entrance gate, 15th round, home of the "Dean of All Saints "(IMH), Palace Square, home of Counts of Perche 16th (IMH), 8 rue de la Porte Saint-Denis (associations of "Friends of Perch" and "Friends of Alain): facade and roof, library, hotel 18th (MH), 30 rue Sainte- Croix hotel Sizing 18th (IMH), 3 rue des Sizes: 2 lodges and hotel entrance gate, chapel house with roof fairing, 1 rue des sizes; home 15th/16th Henry IV (IMH) , 2 bis rue Toussaint: front, fireplace and carved door in the tower house of Marie d'Armagnac 16th: courtyard with turret hotel mesenger: House facade with turrets burner Chaplain. Birthplace of the philosopher Alain (IMH) 3 rue de la Comedie. Hippodrome: 3 stands (IMH). Building 15th and loft square, remnants of the ancient priory of Sainte-Madeleine Chartrage. Rural hamlet of laws *: whole town and surrounding area (SI). Castles of 19th and La Champaillaume Forgetterie.
Province of Perche, capital in the 17th and 18th. Mortagne would "Mauritania" Gallo-Roman times. Monastery founded in the 7th and castle in the Carolingian period, it was rebuilt further west and fortified in the 12th, then called Fort Toussaint. St. Louis went to Mortagne repeatedly. The town was the 14th defensive enclosure currently defines the ancient city. Despite a period of prosperity from the end of the Hundred Years War to the Wars of Religion, Mortagne undergoes then twenty-two assaults and sieges: the dismantling of the ramparts and castle, fire of Notre Dame. The city, faithful to Catholicism, was besieged and taken by Coligny by Henri IV. In 1610, became the capital Mortagne Perche judicial and administrative. In the 17th, many residents took part in the settlement of Canada. The Revolution resulted in the destruction of religious buildings. After a period of regression, Mortagne, historic city center of an opulent, is booming economic and tourism. Home of Pierre Boucher, the most famous Percheron emigrants in Canada (commemorated by a street and a window of the church), and philosopher Alain, born in 1868.
Civil Architecture:
few remnants of Toussaint Fort, overlooking the Miss, integrated housing. Porte Saint-Denis * (IMH), a former city gate with the 12th Renaissance gallery (Museum Percheron). City Hall * 18th: fairs and wood Louis XV French gardens with statue of Fremiet. Remnants of the old hospital Saint-Nicolas (court of the post): windows and bas-reliefs Renaissance (IMH). Halle grain 1825. Many old houses, * including hotel Fontenay 17th, 13 rue du Colonel Guérin facade and roof courtyard (IMH), forehearth, balcony, decorated windows (house of Works); hotel Puisaye: 16th turret; tower house (IMH), 13 Place Général de Gaulle, former hotel Longueil (IMH), current school Bignon, rue du General Leclerc: front courtyard, entrance gate, 15th round, home of the "Dean of All Saints "(IMH), Palace Square, home of Counts of Perche 16th (IMH), 8 rue de la Porte Saint-Denis (associations of "Friends of Perch" and "Friends of Alain): facade and roof, library, hotel 18th (MH), 30 rue Sainte- Croix hotel Sizing 18th (IMH), 3 rue des Sizes: 2 lodges and hotel entrance gate, chapel house with roof fairing, 1 rue des sizes; home 15th/16th Henry IV (IMH) , 2 bis rue Toussaint: front, fireplace and carved door in the tower house of Marie d'Armagnac 16th: courtyard with turret hotel mesenger: House facade with turrets burner Chaplain. Birthplace of the philosopher Alain (IMH) 3 rue de la Comedie. Hippodrome: 3 stands (IMH). Building 15th and loft square, remnants of the ancient priory of Sainte-Madeleine Chartrage. Rural hamlet of laws *: whole town and surrounding area (SI). Castles of 19th and La Champaillaume Forgetterie.
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