La Ferté-en-Ouche (, literally ''La Ferté in

Ouche The Ouche () is a river in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Saône, which it joins in Échenon. It is long. Its source is in Lusigny-sur-Ouche. The Ouche flows through the towns of Bligny-sur-Ouche, La ...

'') is a

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in the

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Orne Orne (; nrf, Ôrne or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Anceins, Bocquencé, Couvains, La Ferté-Frênel (the seat), Gauville, Glos-la-Ferrière, Heugon, Monnai, Saint-Nicolas-des-Laitiers and

Villers-en-Ouche Villers-en-Ouche (, literally ''Villers in Ouche'') is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of La Ferté-en-Ouche.Monument historique ''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...

*Chateau of La Ferté-Frênel is a 19th century Chateau, which with its garden and grounds is classed as a Monument historique. *Château du Boële is an 18th century Chateau, based in Glos-la-Ferrière and classed as a Monument historique in 1974. *Church of Douet-Arthus is a 12th century Church, based in Heugon and classed as a Monument historique in 1997. *Menhir at Glos-la-Ferrière is

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

Menhir A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be foun ...

in Glos-la-Ferrière and was classed as a Monument historique in 1944. *Dolmen at La Ferté-Frênel is

Dolmen A dolmen () or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (40003000 BCE) and were somet ...

in La Ferté-Frênel and was classed as a Monument historique in 1944. File:Église Saint-Sauveur de Monnai (1).jpg, Saint-Sauveur church in Monnai File:Église Saint-Aubin de Gauville (1).jpg, Saint-Aubin church in Gauville File:FranceNormandieCouvains61Eglise.jpg, Couvains church File:Mairie de Gauville.jpg, Town Hall of Gauville File:HeugonOrne.jpg, Heugon File:Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Denis de Heugon (Le Douet-Arthus) (2).jpg, church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Denis in Heugon

People linked with the commune

* Émile Bouhours (1870-1953), a French former road bicycle racer who won the

1900 Paris–Roubaix The 1900 Paris–Roubaix was the fifth edition of the Paris–Roubaix, a classic one-day cycle race in France. The single-day event was held on 15 April 1900 and stretched from Paris to its end in a velodrome in Roubaix. The winner was É ...

race was born here. *

Paul Bunel Paul Bunel (Jan 21,1882 - Oct 20,1918) was a Norman photographer. Born in La Ferté-Fresnel, France Bunel settled in Vimoutiers from where he traversed the Pays d'Auge in Lower-Normandy, France, to photograph villages, people and Norman costumes ...

(1882-1918), a Norman photographer was born here.

People linked with the commune

See also